Impact of Executive Actions on International Education

Impact of Executive Actions on International Education

This questionnaire is intended to help NAFSA better understand the immediate and potential impact of recent executive actions by the Trump administration affecting the funding of international education and exchange programs, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) programs, National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding, and extreme vetting of international students and scholars.

The following questions span education abroad, international students and scholars, DEI programs, research funding, area studies and foreign language. Respond to as many questions as you are able.

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Thank you for helping us understand and convey the harm caused to your students, programs, institutions, and organizations. Please contact grassroots@nafsa.org with any questions.

NOTE THAT TO SHARE YOUR CONCERNS DIRECTLY WITH YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND TO URGE THEIR INTERVENTION:

Add your voice to NAFSA's advocacy campaign to preserve and fund federal international education programs, and
Participate in the U.S. for Success Coalition's advocacy campaign on behalf of international students and scholars whose legal status is threatened by visa revocations and/or SEVIS record terminations.

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1. How does a pause or cessation of federal funding for study abroad, international student and scholar exchange, and/or area studies and foreign language programs affect your programs, students, faculty, and institutions?

Examples include Gilman Scholarship, Fulbright, IDEAS, and the Humphrey Fellowship program.

If you can provide any specifics (type/name of program, number of participants, financial impact, grant size, etc.) that is appreciated. If you can make ties to U.S. national security and economic competitiveness in your response, please do.

2. How do the recent Education Department staff cuts affect the international and foreign language programs at your institution? Include impacts on faculty and students.

Examples include Title VI programs such as Language Resource Centers (LRCs), National Resource Centers (NRCs), Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS), Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). Also included are Fulbright-Hays programs, such as Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad and group projects abroad.

3. How does the disruption of State Department grant disbursements immediately impact your students and/or scholars?

Consider the effects on student stipends, for example.

4. How does the reduction of federal research funding (e.g. limits on indirect cost reimbursements by NIH, cuts to USAID funding) affect your programs, students, scholars, researchers, and institutions?

If you can provide any specifics (type/name of program, number of participants, financial impact, grant size, etc.) that is appreciated.

5. How do tighter visa and immigration restrictions, including visa revocations and SEVIS terminations, affect international students and/or scholars and/or loss of support for DEI affect your classrooms, programming, and campus? Consider the impact on U.S. students’ learning environment in your response.

Consider the impact on U.S. students’ learning environment in your response if possible.

6. Share a story of how federal funding disruption/termination/staff cuts, tighter visa and immigration restrictions, the loss of support for DEI, and/or a reduction in research funding would harm students—international and domestic—in their studies and careers.

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