(from the Chronicle of Higher Education) The U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision Tuesday upholding President Trump's travel ban deepens colleges' and boarding schools' anxieties involving their ability to recruit students from overseas. The ban applies to citizens of seven countries — the predominantly Muslim nations of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen, plus the largely non-Muslim countries of North Korea and Venezuela — but sends a broader signal, many fear, that the United States is no longer welcoming to outsiders. Recent surveys have confirmed foreign-enrollment declines in many U.S. schools. A recent survey by Intead, an international student-marketing company, found that three-quarters of Chinese parents were less interested in sending their children to study in the U.S. because of Trump.
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