
Rebecca Carballo
Education Reporter at POLITICO
Education reporter for @politico Formerly: @nytimes 📰@HoustonChron ⭐️WI native & @MarquetteU alum. Guess which awkward kid in my cover photo is me.
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6 days ago |
politico.com | Rebecca Carballo
President Donald Trump listens as Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House. | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images VISA TROUBLES: President Donald Trump’s message to Chinese students who are worried about getting their visas revoked: It is all “going to be OK.”— A series of moves from the administration last week has created a great deal of uncertainty for many international students.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Rebecca Carballo
That dependence on international students has become unavoidable for schools that don’t want to raise in-state tuition as have spent years cutting taxpayer support. It also means that a drop in foreign enrollment could now affect everything from financial aid for U.S. students to teaching support on campus.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Rebecca Carballo
First, the State Department stopped interviewing applicants for student visas to the U.S. Then Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he’d revoke visas for Chinese students working in “critical fields” or with Communist Party ties. Both moves landed this week as part of President Donald Trump’s monthslong crackdown on elite institutions like Harvard that have multibillion-dollar endowments.
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3 weeks ago |
politico.com | Rebecca Carballo |Madina Toure
Detaining and arresting former and current international students involved in pro-Palestinian protests and pledging to review the visa status of demonstrators who took over a campus library are becoming big warnings. In some cases, legal challenges argue that many international students who had their visas revoked haven’t been protesters.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Rebecca Carballo
President Donald Trump’s combative approach to immigration is opening a new drain on Columbia University’s finances — its deep dependence on foreign students. The Ivy League school ranks third in the nation for international enrollees, which make up about 40 percent of its student body. With students paying $70,000-plus in tuition, the ones from overseas translated into serious cash for Columbia: $903.1 million — twice what Trump froze in its federal research funds two months ago.
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