COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

NPR -  Several U.S. colleges are advising international students planning to leave the country for the holiday break to return before Inauguration Day to avoid issues at the border. Universities, including USC, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell, have contacted students as they prepare for President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. Kirk Carapezza from NPR network station GBH says he believes this decision is being made as school administrators and international students revisit Trump’s track record. During his first term, new foreign student enrollment dropped by 12%. Trump implemented a travel ban targeting majority-Muslim countries and briefly prohibited international students from remaining in the U.S. if they took only online classes during the pandemic. Trump is now promising stricter policies, but there are no concrete proposals. Carapezza says that behind closed doors, administrators and students are anxious.