Cash cow slaughtered, universities squealing like stuck pigs

MIT, Harvard sue to overturn ban on foreign students who don’t physically attend classes

Big Apple schools are also scrambling after Monday’s decision, according to one New York University professor who told The Post that students and staff alike are panicking because the school has such a high percentage of foreign students.

…. The professor and other staff “are afraid we will have no students and no jobs because such a high percentage of our students are foreign-born,” the teacher said.

Harvard and MIT can take the hit; poorer schools are screwed.

For several decades now, America's colleges and universities have been making bank by holding spaces open for foreign nationals, especially Chinese students who are the scions of powerful people in the Communist Party.  The beauty of these students is that they pay full fare.  With them, there are no grants, no in-state discounts, no pesky and inconvenient loans.  Instead, it's cash all the way.

A year and a half ago, the New York Times wrote about academia's reliance on foreign students, especially Chinese ones:

It's no mere coincidence that Jeffrey R. Brown, the dean of the Gies College of Business, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is also a scholar of risk management. At his first faculty meeting four years ago, Brown fretted that his school had become, like many American universities, overly dependent on a single source of money — roughly a fifth of tuition revenue came from Chinese students.

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Over the past decade, the explosion in the number of international students has turned education, almost by stealth, into one of the most vital American exports.

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Nearly 1.1 million international students attended American colleges and universities in 2017. They generated $42.4 billion in export revenue. ...

This chart from a 2018 report on foreign students in America gives some idea of how beholden to the Chinese academia is:

Lord Baden-Powell on pig-sticking: "Try it before you judge. See how the horse enjoys it, see how the boar himself, mad with rage, rushes wholeheartedly into the scrap, see how you, with your temper thoroughly roused, enjoy the opportunity of wreaking it to the full. Yes, hog-hunting is a brutal sport—and yet I loved it, as I loved also the fine old fellow I fought against. Not only is pig-sticking the most exciting and enjoyable sport for both the man and horse as well, but I really believe that the boar enjoys it too."

Trump couldn’t have said it better himself.