Karin Fischer
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A newly published paper finds that colleges were significantly more likely to report terminations of international students’ legal status if they had previously experienced campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war, suggesting, the authors say, that these institutions were targeted for legal action against foreign students.
The paper examines a spring of 2025 crackdown on foreign students, finding that the odds of status revocations were four to eight times greater on campuses that had been protest sites the prior year. The presence of demonstrations, rather than institutional type or political control of a college’s home state, was the strongest predictor of terminations.
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