Emma Whitford
Senior Reporter at Forbes
Covering education for @Forbes. No longer active on or checking this app—reach me at ewhitford@forbes dot com.
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6 days ago |
forbes.com | Emma Whitford
International students have become the lifeblood of these 16 private nonprofit colleges. Trump’s crackdown on student visas threatens their existence. St. Francis College is trying to turn things around. After operating in a deficit since fiscal year 2017, the 166-year-old Roman Catholic college in Brooklyn, New York, ended fiscal 2023 with $66 million in net income, thanks largely to the $160 million sale of its 150,000 square foot campus at 180 Remsen Street. The sale was paired with austere cuts.
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Emma Whitford
This past March, 6,653 foreign citizens, educated at foreign medical schools, matched to internships at American hospitals, according to data from the NRMP. gettyHasiba Karimi was supposed to be seeing patients at a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania hospital in just a few weeks.
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Emma Whitford
Harvard University has issued $1.18 billion in bonds so far in 2025. gettyAs the Trump administration wages its war on American colleges, schools are shoring up liquidity and taking on new debt while they wade through financial uncertainty. Debt issuance—tax-exempt and taxable—has increased this spring, says Jennifer Johnston, a senior vice president and director of municipal bonds research research at Franklin Templeton.
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3 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Emma Whitford
About a quarter of doctors currently in practice were educated in foreign medical schools and the United States faces a growing physician shortage. gettyNewly-minted M.D.s are among the thousands of students, trainees, teachers and exchange visitors put in limbo after the Trump State department hit pause on new visa appointments last week, as it develops a plan to vet visa candidates’ social media.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Emma Whitford
Amid his ongoing assault on elite “woke” colleges, President Donald Trump mused Monday that he might redirect some of Harvard University’s now suspended federal funding to trade schools—institutions he championed through both campaigns and in his previous term. “I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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