…along with the rest of US society. Some articles are general but may touch on education and/or higher education, including international students.

They say it’s law, they say it’s right,

But how can cruelty shine so bright?

If justice sleeps, we’ll shake the ground,

Until these cages all come down.

(From Tear Down the Walls)

August 2025

July 2025

A Columbia genocide scholar says she may leave over university’s new definition of antisemitism (25.7.25)

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication (22.7.25)

Inside the New Group Giving Antisemitism Trainings at Harvard (2.7.25)

June 2025

Trump’s war on Harvard was decades in the making. This letter proves it (11.6.25)

A Doctor Said Israel’s War Is Fueling Health Crises in Gaza. UCSF Fired Her (5.6.25)

Trump bans Harvard from admitting new international students (4.6.25)

May 2025

How Student Protesters and Immigrants Became Targets of Trump’s Surveillance Tech (30.5.25)

Marco Rubio Is Attacking American Education. International Students Are His Pawns (30.5.25)

Trump team pauses new student visa interviews as it weighs expanding social media vetting (27.5.25)

Supporting Our International Students and Scholars (23.5.25) Source: Harvard Office of the President

Trump administration blocks Harvard University from enrolling foreign students (22.5.25)

The US is reinstating records for international students. For some, it’s too late (19.5.25)

Here’s the Gaza Speech NYU Is Withholding a Student Diploma Over (16.5.25)

U.S. Universities Eye Branch Campuses as Way to ‘Survive Trump’ (16.5.25)

International college students bring billions to the US. Here’s why that may change. (15.5.25)

UCLA Is Now Nearly Unrecognizable as a University (15.5.25)

ICE Duped a Federal Judge Into Allowing Raid on Columbia Student Dorms (15.5.25)

I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention. (13.5.25)

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction (11.5.25)

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, vows to continue legal action after jail release (11.5.25)

Undue Process (10.5.25)

Education Dept. Cancels Fulbright-Hays Applications, at Least for Now (9.5.25)

I’m an Israeli professor. Why is my work in Harvard’s antisemitism report? (9.5.25)

A college student was stopped after turning right on red. Now she could be deported (8.5.25)

Trump says he’s unsure whether people in the US are entitled to due process (4.5.25)

Visa crackdown leads international students in the US to reconsider summer travel (4.5.25)

NYU Demands Law Students Renounce Protests or Be Barred From Sitting Final Exams (3.5.25)

CAIR-LA Condemns Escalated Police Response to UCLA Students’ Screening of ‘The Encampments,’ Demands Accountability (2.5.25)

Deporting international students risks making the US a less attractive destination, putting its economic engine at risk (1.5.25)

Can studying in the US survive geopolitics? (1.5.25)

Harvard sends international students’ records to Trump admin (1.5.25)

April 2025

Federal Court Orders Columbia Student Mohsen Mahdawi Released on Bail (30.4.25) Source: ACLU

Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer (26.4.25) MAA: Not about US higher education, but worth sharing. Utter depravity and beyond redemption.

Trump DOJ Ordered ICE to Invade Homes Without Search Warrant (26.4.25)

Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations (25.4.25)

How a Trump administration crackdown on foreign students unraveled (25.4.25)

It’s Not Too Late to Tell the Truth About Antisemitism on Campus (25.4.25)

The great collapse of US higher education has begun (24.4.25) MAA: Maybe an exaggeration, but it’s clear the US regime is inflicting long-term damage on US higher education and other sectors of society.

Trump signs executive actions on education, including efforts to rein in DEI (24.4.25)

University of Toledo suspending nine undergrad programs in compliance with Ohio higher ed law (23.4.25)

Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish (23.4.25) What if they’re anti-genocide, anti-Israel, and anti-Trump?

Where is the field’s voice against the erosion of international students’ civil liberties? (22.4.25)

A Call for Constructive Engagement (22.4.25) Source: AAC&U

Education secretary says she spoke to Columbia, Harvard presidents about ‘abiding by the law’ (22.4.25) MAA: This is from the woman who thinks AI is A1 of steak sauce fame and whose claim to fame is World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. “Abiding by the law” means doing whatever the Felon in Chief and his loyalists want. Can you imagine being the president of any HE institution and having to talk to the likes of LM?

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them (22.4.25)

While Your Attention Was Fixed Elsewhere: What’s Really Happening at the Department of Education (22.4.25)

What Is SEVIS, and How Is the Government Using It to Go After International Students? (22.4.25)

Trump vs higher education: cuts, battles, protests for April 18, 2025 (19.4.25) Vlog by Bryan Alexander

DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants (18.4.25)

Homeland Security Threatens Harvard With Loss of International Students (18.4.25)

Exclusive interview: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi spoke to CBS News day before detainment (17.4.25)

Trump’s Bitter Personal Feud With Rival Billionaires Is Behind His Harvard Hate Campaign (17.4.25)

Our campus is trying to clarify the distinction between antisemitism and legitimate debate about the state of Israel (17.4.25)

Florida Universities Sign Agreements With ICE (16.4.25)

Universities Told Students to Leave the Country. ICE Just Said They Didn’t Actually Have To. (17.4.25)

BREAKING: Palestinian Student Arrested In Vermont During Citizenship Interview (15.4.25)

Multiple Colleges Join Harvard in Fight Against Trump Admin (15.4.25)

MAGA’s Class Warfare Against Knowledge Workers Is Personal (14.4.25)

The Promise of American Higher Education (14.4.25)

Bloomington Faculty Council adopts resolution to establish ‘Big Ten mutual defense compact’ (14.4.25)

Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE (14.4.25)

Is Admissions Trump’s Next Higher Ed Target? (14.4.25)

130 Jewish Georgetown members slam Trump for ‘weaponizing’ faith in Badar Khan Suri arrest (11.4.25)

Guidance for international students on US’s hostile regime (11.4.25)

Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram (11.4.25) This is happening on Facebook and LinkedIn, the latter owned by Microsoft.

US government has revoked more than 600 student visas, data shows (10.4.25)

Trump administration begins interviewing UC faculty as part of antisemitism probe (10.4.25)

US to screen social media of immigrants, rights advocates raise concerns (10.4.25)

University of Florida student deported to Colombia following traffic stop (9.4.25)

Trump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted (9.4.25)

Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “Non-White” Students for Deportation (8.4.25)

International Student Visas Revoked (8.4.25)

Why is Trump sending immigrant university scholars to Louisiana and Texas? (8.4.25)

As Trump’s immigration crackdown continues, ethics questions are being raised over the use of masked federal agents (8.4.25)

ACE, Higher Ed Associations Demand Answers as Student Visa Revocations Spread Nationwide (7.4.25)

Harvard, UCLA, Stanford among schools across US reporting student visa revocations (7.4.25)

Trump’s war on international students hurts us all (6.4.25)

A Letter to Columbia (5.4.25)- Editor’s Note: This op-ed was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24. Spectator verified this with his Attorney Amy Greer and conducted its regular editing process. Khalil is currently detained at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center.

ICE Revokes UMass Boston Visas (5.4.25) Agency takes legal status from 12 at Boston and Amherst campus

Federal officials are quietly terminating the legal residency of some international college students (5.4.25)

Smashing the Student Visa System (3.4.25)

Harvard’s turn in the crosshairs of Trump’s authoritarianism (3.4.25)

Suddenly Colleges With Big Foreign Student Populations Face Existential Risk (3.4.25)

Now is NOT the Time to Be Recommending U.S. Study for International Students (3.4.25)

Smashing the Student Visa System (3.4.25)

This College Staffer Lost Her Job After Showing a Film Critical of Israel. Now She’s Suing Over Free Speech (3.4.25)

Pro-Israel Group That Attacked UPenn Was Funded by Family of UPenn Trustee (2.4.25)

There are already 130,000 fewer international students in the US. Has anyone noticed? (2.4.25)

University Declaration for Rümeysa Öztürk (2.4.25) Source: Tufts University

Columbia University faces new trouble as top admissions consultant says students won’t accept offers — ‘brand has been tarnished’ (1.4.25)

These Countries Have Issued Travel Advisories for the United States (1.4.25)

Some foreign college students are being targeted for deportation. What rights do they have? (1.4.25)

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” (1.4.25)

March 2025

Rutgers Senate Proposes Big Ten ‘Mutual Defense Compact’ to Block Trump’s Campus Attacks (31.3.25)

Trump Immigration Policies Increase Peril For International Students (31.3.25)

Alliance of Over 570 College and University Leaders Condemns the Apprehension and Detention of International Students and Calls on the Administration to Respect Constitutional Rights (31.3.25)

Defending Student Deportations, Marco Rubio Equates Writing an Anti-Israel Op-Ed With Starting a Riot (31.3.25)

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado (31.3.25)

Universities Should Challenge Trump’s Speech-Based Deportations of Students in Court [Updated] (30.3.25)

“F-1 Visa Revoked”: Why US Is Asking Hundreds Of International Students To Self-Deport (29.3.25)

Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to ‘intervene’ in potential ICE detainments on campus (29.3.25)

Federal Immigration Agents Detain University Of Minnesota Student (29.3.25)

A PhD student was snatched by masked officers in broad daylight. Then she was flown 1,500 miles away (29.3.25) It was because of this 26.3.24 Tufts student newspaper article and someone bringing it to the attention of this organization, which in turn notified ICE.

Leave America! Indian and other students face visa revocations even for an Insta ‘like’ (29.3.25)

Here Are The Students Trump Wants to Deport Over Their Speech (28.3.25)

What basic rights do people have if ICE stops them? A lawyer explains (28.3.25)

US issues broad order to consulates to vet student visas over ‘terrorist activity’ (28.3.25)

ICE detains University of Alabama doctoral student as government’s college crackdown continues (27.3.25)

Ambush arrest of Tufts student sparks new concerns about immigration crackdown (27.3.25)

“I take these lunatics’ visas”: Rubio admits to revoking 300 student visas over campus activism (27.3.25)

International students weigh new risks of pursuing higher education in the US under Trump (25.3.25)

Surrendering to Authoritarianism – Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception. (24.3.25)

What Is at Stake – Universities must take action for democracy in our politically charged times (Winter 2025)

US, UK, Canada & Australia lose sheen as international students look elsewhere (24.3.25)

Columbia student protester sues Trump administration for trying to deport her (24.3.25)

Ice requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities (21.3.25)

U.S. government cannot deport Georgetown scholar until court rules, judge orders (21.3.25)

I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs (18.3.25)

Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says (19.3.25)

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found (18.3.25)

A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil (18.3.25)

Brown University Advises Its International Students To Postpone Travel Amid Uncertainty (18.3.25)

Brown University professor deported despite judge’s order, defying US court (17.3.25)

Columbia warns journalism students to stay silent on Gaza or risk arrest (17.3.25)

Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump’s Tyranny – University presidents [one exception is Wesleyan University President Michael Roth] fearing that millions of dollars in federal funding could disappear are holding their fire. Chief executives alarmed by tariffs that could hurt their businesses are on mute.” (14.3.25)

Trump administration puts US civic freedoms under severe threat – CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist (10.3.25)

Resources

International Students by the Numbers (Source: IHE)

Report SEVIS Records terminated and reactivated (Source: NAFSA)

Practice Alert: SEVIS Records of International Students Being Terminated by ICE

We Are Higher Ed – Immediate Action Required: Students at the following campuses have had their visas revoked since April 2. We will post with updates. There are gofundme campaigns and other efforts to help raise money for these students. We will post as we learn more. And please let us know if you have any information. We will post timestamps for each update.

ICE-Initiated SEVIS Record Terminations (for NAFSA members only)

International Students and Scholars: Report an ISS Issue (Source: NAFSA)

Current U.S. Administration Policy and Process During the Second Trump Administration (2025–2029) Explore our dedicated hub for timely updates, objective analysis, and association advocacy and resources as we navigate policy changes under the new presidential administration. Source: NAFSA: Association of International Educators

Know Your Rights: U.S. Airports and Ports of Entry – Now more than ever, it’s important to know your basic constitutional rights when entering the United States from abroad.

Navigating School and College Selection in Tumultuous Political Times (1.4.25)

Know Your Rights: If ICE Visits Your Home (25.1.25) Source: American Immigration Lawyers Association

Meet the seven brilliant student-scholars disappeared off the streets of the US by the Trump Administration for criticizing Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. Four are being held in brutal for-profit ICE detention centers in Louisiana. None are charged with a crime.

Free them now. 

From Steven Doziger on X