"We Support You": Education's Response to the Travel Ban

The "Trump effect" on international students intensified over the weekend after the new president issued an executive order halting immigration from the Muslim-majority nations of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Even as some student and teachers are stranded abroad, colleges, universities and K-12 schools are scrambling to postpone or cancel travel plans and reassure international students that their studies will continue interrupted. Some schools have also vowed not to share student records with law enforcement agencies or federal officials seeking to enforce immigration laws.

More than 17,000 students from the seven countries affected by the ban studied at U.S. colleges last year, according to the Institute of International Education and data from the State Department.

Chronicle of Higher Education (01/29/17) and AP News (01/30/17)