Science News StaffThe Trump administration agreed today to drop its controversial proposal to prevent international students from staying in the United States if they are taking all their courses online.
The government had argued the students didn’t need to be in the country if all their coursework was offered remotely.But university officials protested the 6 July directive from the Department of Homeland Security, saying it would disrupt the education of hundreds of thousands of students and send a message they weren’t welcome on U.S.
campuses. The announcement also didn’t explicitly distinguish undergraduate and graduate students—creating uncertainty among science and engineering graduate students who are focused on research and had no.