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1 week ago | 
wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo
An MIT student has sued the federal government over its abrupt termination of her international student record in a federal database managed by the Department of Homeland Security. The student, an MIT senior set to graduate in May, learned her record in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS, was abruptly deleted in early April, putting her at risk of detainment by immigration enforcement agents.
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2 weeks ago | 
wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo |Carrie Jung
A number of international students at private universities across Greater Boston and in the University of Massachusetts system have had their visas revoked in recent days. Tufts University, Harvard University, UMass, Boston University, Emerson College, Northeastern University and Berklee College of Music all say that they have discovered student visas were cancelled in the last few days. It is not immediately clear why the visas were terminated.
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2 weeks ago | 
wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo
Fatou Jallow remembers hearing her grandmother tell stories about the many funerals she attended in Gambia. Far too often, people in her country died of treatable illnesses because they lacked access to medical care. “I thought that was really jarring,” Jallow said. “In America, as a child, that's not something you really hear [happening].”Fatou Jallow, a Payne fellow at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
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2 weeks ago | 
wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo
The Trump Administration on Thursday sent Harvard University a list of broad demands required to avoid the risk of losing billions of dollars in federal funding. The conditions include slashing all diversity, equity and inclusion programming and cooperating with law enforcement officials.
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3 weeks ago | 
wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo
Lawsuit claims Emerson terminated staffer for pro-Palestinian political activismA former Emerson College employee filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging the school terminated her employment because of her political activism and her choice to screen a film that touched on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Anna Feder is a Jewish educator and filmmaker who worked at Emerson College for 17 years, according to the lawsuit.
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3 weeks ago | 
wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo |Lisa Creamer
Across Harvard's campus, some students and faculty members expressed frustration and fears about the Trump administration's threat to cut off billions of dollars in federal grants and contracts sent to the university. On Monday, the government's joint task force to combat antisemitism said it had placed Harvard and its roughly $9 billion in funds under review over what the feds claim are practices of discrimination against Jewish school community members.
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3 weeks ago | 
wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo
Accusing Harvard University of allowing antisemitism to fester on its campus, the Trump administration announced Monday it is reviewing nearly $9 billion in federal grants and hundreds of millions in contracts awarded to the elite school. “Harvard’s failure to protect students on campus from anti-Semitic discrimination - all while promoting divisive ideologies over free inquiry - has put its reputation in serious jeopardy,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in a statement.
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1 month ago | 
wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo
Bunker Hill Community College is canceling all of its short-term summer study abroad programs this year. The decision, relayed in emails to students last week, came after school leaders reviewed the Trump administration’s recent changes to immigration policy. A spokesman for the college confirmed the canceled programs to WBUR on Monday. “Our first priority in any Study Abroad experience is the safety of our students and staff,” a statement read.
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1 month ago | 
wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo
Five years ago, as COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic and Massachusetts descended into a state of emergency, hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren were sent home. Their learning would take place over screens until many months later when they'd reenter classrooms with orders to follow unprecedented health precautions. Masks on. Distances kept. Anxieties high. Those fears have since tamped down. COVID is now .
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1 month ago | 
wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo
Massachusetts colleges and universities are doubling down on guidance to international students in the wake of immigration-related executive actions from the Trump administration. Schools like Emerson College, MIT and Boston University advised international students to keep their immigration paperwork on them at all times.
