PhD Day

“The announcement followed a wave of individual lawsuits filed by students who have said they were notified that their legal right to study in the United States was rescinded, often with minimal explanation. In some cases, students had minor documented traffic violations or other infractions. But in other cases, there appeared to be no obvious cause for the revocations.” Trump Administration Reverses Course on Student Visa Cancellations.

+ The policy has been halted, but the fear it and other measures have engendered will likely live on. WSJ (Gift Article): Fearing Trump’s Visa Crackdown, International College Students Race to Scrub Op-Eds.

+ We’re scaring away the best and the brightest people, one of the key imports that gives America its competitive advantage. This XKCD comic sums it up pretty well: PhD Timeline. And Fareed Zakaria fleshes it out. WaPo (Gift Article): Trump is destroying 100 years of competitive advantage in 100 days.