U.S. colleges and universities are rushing to help students and scholars affected by President Trump’s order restricting all citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States, and academic leaders are warning that the executive action could cause irreparable harm to American higher education.
Trump’s order bars immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days and indefinitely keeps out Syrian refugees. A few federal judges put some limits on the executive order late Saturday but the overall thrust of it remained intact.
School officials urged students and scholars in the United States who may be affected by the decree not to travel internationally for any reason as stories emerged about some now stranded overseas, unable to return to their schools or start planned study and research.
Read more at The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/01/29/u-s-colleges-rush-to-help-students-scholars-affected-by-trumps-immigration-order/