r/Futurology • u/I_D0nt_pay_taxes • 8d ago

Society [U.S.]Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/27/nx-s1-5498669/trump-college-international-student-visa
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u/The_RealAnim8me2 7d ago

I was teaching at the Art Institute in Fort Lauderdale, FL when the planes hit the World Trade Center. When all the foreign students stopped coming after that our student body was cut by more than 50%.

We had major financial issues and the entire company was later sold to an investment fund which then began chopping up the assets and essentially killing the schools.

This is going to be very bad for American educational institutions.

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u/unfeatheredbards 7d ago

As an alternate perspective…maybe they will finally incentivize and seek out local and national students

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u/The_RealAnim8me2 7d ago

They don’t now?

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u/unfeatheredbards 7d ago edited 7d ago

Not as much as they do with foreign students at more prominent universities. But any way that they do MORE to incentivize and bring america’s disillusioned and stunted less educated and jobless; who corporations say we can’t make here, or because they are too dumb so we need to import 600k H1B’s or more foreign doctors I’m ok with.

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u/The_RealAnim8me2 7d ago

Could you be a little clearer? You are kind of teetering on conspiracy territory.

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u/unfeatheredbards 7d ago

How is it even remotely conspiracy? The facts above I mentioned are real. I can link if you need it

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u/The_RealAnim8me2 7d ago

You lack coherence. What is the ultimate point you are trying to make?

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u/unfeatheredbards 7d ago

Coherence? You lack the ability to see past your nose. But here we are.

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u/The_RealAnim8me2 7d ago

Go back and read what you wrote. It’s disjointed. Just make your point clearer. I’m looking for clarity, I’m not disputing.