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US schools creating contingency plans for international students - The World from PRX Over the last several months, international students at US campuses have found themselves caught up in political havoc. The Trump administration has announced enhanced scrutiny of student visa applica...

CIC President @marjoriehass.bsky.social speaks about contingency plans for international students @theworld.org

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Trump’s Assault On Higher Ed Will Likely Mean Budget Cuts And Tuition Increases Trump’s new policies will hit college budgets hard. Top schools could get away with increasing their prices, but everyone else will have to cut their way to solvency.

“The smaller colleges—the Catholic colleges, the Christian colleges, the women’s colleges, the HBCUs—that educate the vast, vast majority of students, all of them are feeling the effects of the disruption to the economy,” says CIC President Marjorie Hass. @forbes.com

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Hiring and Supporting a Pioneering President On August 1–3, 2024, 20 presidents of CIC member institutions and their board chairs gathered in Washington, DC, for CIC’s first Convening of Pioneering Presidents and Board Chairs. This meeting broug...

CIC’s new resource, “Hiring and Supporting a Pioneering President,” includes advice about defining the role of a new leader. There is practical advice for how to support them at every step, from the search process through their inaugural year as president and beyond. #HigherEd

An opportunity to reframe the DEI debate (opinion) A Dear Colleague letter seeking to prohibit race-conscious DEI initiatives should push campus leaders to rethink their core programs, Marjorie Hass writes.

"We can use this unexpected opportunity to pick up where we left off and ensure that every program, every aspect of the curriculum, and every student service, is designed with the needs of our very diverse student body in mind," writes CIC President Marjorie Hass. @insidehighered.com

The Long Shadow of Ivy League Disputes Has Engulfed the Rest of Higher Ed, Too Private-college presidents at a conference last week said they’d been asked about Harvard’s responses to the Israel-Hamas war and other political topics in recent months.

Most college presidents won’t face several hours of questioning from Congress. Some won’t even get questions from students.

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