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Foreign students show less zeal for US since Trump took over
Posted: October 26, 2020
International students contributed roughly $41 billion to the American economy in 2018 school year. NAFSA estimated that since 2016, the decline of new international students cost the U.S. nearly $12 billion and at least 65,000 jobs.
In response, college leaders formed the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration in 2017.
Cramb, the group’s co-chairman, is a Scottish migrant who earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He became IIT president in 2015.
“The greatest thing to happen to me was coming here,” he said. “What we are doing is taking away a richness to the education experience for everyone.”
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