Santa Barbara, California – far away from public conflicts with the elite universities of US President Donald Trump Harvard And ColombiaStudents at the Bustling University in California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) are completing the final exam under the Sunny sky shine on the nearest beach.
Despite the distance and pleasant climate, the students here are still hanging on the clouds of Trump’s rhetoric and the uncertainty created by foreign students’ policies.
Dennis Lomov, a 26 -year -old PhD student from Russia, who lives in the UCSB since 1, said, “People are looking for other alternatives (among international students).
After coming to the post of this year, the Trump administration canceled the visa among hundreds of foreign nationals, reduced funds for science and research programs, and tried to expel the foreign nationals involved. Palestine Campus activationAnd suspended Student visits visits??
For international students in universities like UCSB, where all students are around 15 percent outside the United States, rhetoric and policies have surprised students in their predictions in the country.
“It surprises you that if you may go somewhere instead,” Lomov told Al Jazir that he was many years away from completing his PhD.
Like his colleague international students, he said that after his program is over, he has begun to think about whether his skills may be more valuable in places like Canada or Europe.
He said, “I think this is an unpredictableness of these policies that can make me afraid of the future, both were students with me, but even after I graduate.”
Absence
The actions against the universities and foreign students of the Trump administration have met the mixed results in the court.
On Monday, one of the first important legal winners of the Trump administration’s efforts was the Federal judges rejected the Columbia University’s case for the deduction of the federal funding government of the university, on the basis of allegations that the university did not take enough steps to prevent Palestine supporters in the name of fighting against semitism on campus.
In the second decision, on Monday, a judge ordered Trump’s efforts to prevent Trump’s efforts to prevent Harvard from attending Incoming. Trump has also threatened withdrawing Harvard’s tax-suit status and has frozen more than $ 2.6 billion in research subsidy. Harvard has also filed a lawsuit challenging the deduction.
Many universities in the UC system, including UCSB, have warned international students from traveling outside the country, which create serious complications for their educational work and their personal life.
Anonymous and PhD students at UCSB said, “People are thinking of whether people will be able to visit their families during their event during their event.”
Mehta, who joined the UAW 4881 Educational Workers Association, added, “They are more careful about what they post online in the anxiety at the airport.”
He said these concerns, the ability to organize field work in foreign countries, a common feature of graduate research or attend the ability to attend academic councils abroad.
Some students – and university administrators themselves have also mentioned that strategic announcements, media reports are difficult to control. ProsecutionAnd the counter -cloths exposed to the attacks on high education attacks by Trump.
“Frequent changes have occurred and many of these policies have been implemented very quickly and without much advanced instructions,” said Carola Smith, Administrator at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC).
Smith says different national identity between and Between represents different national identity camps, and in addition to international students who pay more than American students, their presence on campus welcomes their classmates from a variety of perspectives and creates relationships with people in other parts of the world.
Smith has predicted that the number of foreign students can decrease by 50 percent in the coming year as the student visa appointment is currently suspended.
Changing perspective
The stress of maintaining changing developments has also been added with more abstract concern: Once the US, research and educational global destination are seen as a country that is proud of its status, then the presence is increasing. Foreign student??
“Harvard will have to show their lists (foreign students). They have foreign students, they have almost percented students. We want to know where those students came from. Are they harassing? What country do they come from?” Trump said in March.
The administration also states that International Students take the spots of the university that can go to American students, which are in accordance with the more intuitive view of policies that see a variety of different types. Exchang with other countries As a drain on the United States rather than the source of mutual benefit.
Assistant Professor of Loma Linda University in Southern California, Jeffrey Rojrio, says, “They are arguing that they do not need international students, that they should cultivate here at home.
“The rest of the world is blowing us, saying that the rest of the world is blowing us, saying,” You can see a throwline between these and their rates between them and their rates abroad. “”
For a student in Russia, for Lomov, he is surprised by the atmosphere that his skills will get a good home elsewhere?
“I left Russia, I didn’t feel welcome there, and my skills really needed. That is why I left the United States, because I know that America provides amazing opportunities for educational and research,” Lomov said.
“But now it seems like I have come back to the same place, where I have to go back.”
