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Are international students good for American universities?
There are many positives but perhaps a closer look at the trade-offs is needed too.
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This is the Trumpian viewpoint in a nutshell: The enrolment of foreign students is basically an elite scam.
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David A. Bell
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Several years ago, a colleague teaching at Miami University, a large state school in Ohio, kindly invited me to give a talk there.
After picking me up at the airport, he suggested that we have lunch at a Sichuan restaurant near the campus. I was sceptical. Sichuan in small-town Ohio? “Trust me,” he said. “It’s fantastic.” And it was.
