What You Need to Know About Colleges and the Immigration Ban

January 30, 2017
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President Trump's executive order Friday that bars all refugees from entering the United States, as well as citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries, prompted colleges to frantically start trying to determine what it meant for them. Here's what you need to know:

Who is affected?

The order touches many different parts of academe.

Students, professors, and researchers traveling internationally found themselves in limbo. Two professors at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth were detained at Logan International Airport, in Boston, the university said in a statement. An undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was also reportedly barred from re-entering the United States because she is an Iranian citizen. (Of the more than 15,000 international students who are directly affected by the order, roughly 12,000 are from Iran).

Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://www.chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/239038