US memo to colleges proposes terms on ideology, foreign enrollment for federal funds
President Donald Trump's administration has asked US colleges to sign a deal on some sweeping terms - ranging from foreign enrollment and diversity to ideological values of students and staff - to get preferential access to federal funds, according to a 10-point memo sent on Wednesday by the government. The memo shared with Reuters by a White House official demands that schools cap international undergrad enrollment at 15 percent, ban the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions, freeze tuition for five years, require that applicants take the SAT or a similar test and quell grade inflation. Trump has threatened to cut federal funding for universities over a range of issues such as pro-Palestinian protests against US ally Israel's war in Gaza, transgender policies, climate initiatives and diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
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00:00I think it's honestly really sad because I feel like international students make up a good portion of our population here and they make up what our university is. And I do have a lot of friends who are international students and they're like some of the smartest, like coolest people I know.
00:22And I have a ton of friends who are international students and I really fear that this ruling will hurt their ability to stay at the school. It will hurt their ability to get the same opportunities as domestic students when they're suddenly forced into being othered, into being second class students at the school all because of this memo.
00:47Yeah, I, it's just a dumpster fire, frankly, from my opinion. Sorry to be frank. And yeah, I really hope he's able to reconsider. I hope he sees the economic impact it has in these universities and the impact it starts to have on American culture and on American opportunity and industries that rely heavily on foreign immigrants like tech and starts to reconsider that maybe this might not have been the best idea.
01:12I think that the cap should be set based on, like I said, individual universities. I don't think it should be an overall stated bias, but I think it should be, especially since we're a private school, privately funded. I think it should be up to the university overall.
01:33I do think treating international students in a way different than you'd treat domestic students in respect to their role in last year's protests and in respecting their privacy is not something that's okay and not something this nation, this administration should be doing.
01:54Yeah, no, it's messed up. I think it's a lot of, it's like an overreach presidential power. In my opinion, you're just kind of being a bully to schools and saying, I won't give you what you want, what you need, unless you bend your knee.
02:10It's a coercion tactic. Without approval of the House or the Senate, I think it's bypassing the system of checks and balances that has kept the president from assuming dictatorial power, from assuming too much executive power for generations.
02:29Freedom of assembly, you should be able to protest, you should be able to speak your minds and not fear that your name goes on some list in the government because who knows what anybody will do, like kind of information, especially it could be used to hurt you in the future.
02:49I don't know what will happen to that information, but I think, yeah, people should be, not feel as if their protest gets them on some sort of, you know, blacklist or something.
02:59I think that just discourages protests and I think that hurts freedom of speech, freedom of assembly.
03:19So, let's say, yeah, people should be brave enough to say.
03:32I think that's the way to defend the problem.
03:36So, I think that's how I understand the problem, I think that's how I understand the problem in my opinion.
03:39So, if someone is asking them to defend the table and out there and to get them to play something out, I think that's a danger thing that has happened to be a little bit more.
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