Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT (pictured) and Harvard sued the Trump administration for its decision to strip international college students of their visas if all of their courses are held online. — AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
FROM the Trump administration perspective, suddenly forcing international students out of the country must have looked like three wins in one. It would have ejected mostly non-European immigrants, advanced the administration's new demand that schools reopen their campuses despite the threat posed by Covid-19 and financially and academically harmed universities, which Trump views as bastions of liberal indoctrination.
Not to mention striking a blow against science, and especially against the nation's leadership in scientific research, which has come about largely because of its globally admired university programs in engineering and laboratory science.
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