Monday, November 16, 2020

11-16: International Student Numbers Decline; Loopy Trumpian law professor to be fired; College Republicans call to "arm up"; OC Covid numbers rising

✅ International Student Numbers Decline
 
A survey found that new international enrollments dropped by 43 percent this fall. It also provides the first glimpse of the effects of the pandemic on international exchange and insight into pre-pandemic trends. 
—Inside Higher Ed 
     The total number of international students studying at U.S. universities, whether from within the U.S. or online from abroad, decreased by 16 percent this fall, while enrollments of new international students decreased by 43 percent, according to a new survey of more than 700 colleges conducted by 10 major higher education organizations. 

Here’s what you should know about the latest “Open Doors” report. 
—CHE 

University of Miami law professor says he's being fired for his controversial views. Some colleagues have spoken out against him, but some worry about making him a martyr. 
—Inside Higher Ed 
     A politically conservative lecturer of law at the University of Miami says he’s being pushed out over his views, as expressed on Twitter -- including the disproved claim that President Donald Trump was the victim of widespread election fraud. 
     Dan Ravicher has also tweeted about buying guns to protect his family from post-election protesters, compared some Democrats to Nazis and warned students that professors who don’t share their political views will give them lower grades. 
     Perhaps most controversially, Ravicher tweeted on election night, “Latinos are now clearly the most politically important minority group in America. Blacks allow themselves to be taken for granted and treated horribly by Democrats. Latinos don’t. Also, population difference will grow bc blacks have 50% more abortions than Latinos per cap.” 

—Inside Higher Ed 
     Hundreds of students and faculty members at Iowa State University have signed an open letter to administrators calling for disciplinary action against the campus College Republicans for a tweet telling others to “arm up.”
     On Nov. 7 the College Republicans tweeted, “Everyone, you must arm up, expect these people to attempt to destroy your life, the elites want revenge on us.”…. 

✅ California faces new wave of restrictions and business limitations amid coronavirus surge -- With coronavirus again surging across California, officials are faced with a narrowing number of options to slow the spread. Luke Money, Alex Wigglesworth, Rong-Gong Lin II in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 11/16/20 

“I’m not going to be bullied into not following reputable scientists and medical professionals,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) responded. 
—WashPo

✅ 2nd virus vaccine shows striking success in US tests -- A second experimental COVID-19 vaccine — this one from Moderna Inc. — yielded extraordinarily strong early results Monday, another badly needed dose of hope as the pandemic enters a terrible new phase. Lauran Neergaard Associated Press -- 11/16/20 

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DACA will live on under Biden. Will he give ‘Dreamers’ a path to citizenship? -- When Joe Biden won the presidential election, Vanessa Mejia said she felt hope again. Tatiana Sanchez in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 11/16/20 

✅ Biden seeks window on vaccine plans as Trump stalls handoff -- President-elect Joe Biden’s scientific advisers plan to meet with vaccine makers in coming days even as a stalled presidential transition keeps them out of the loop on government plans to inoculate all Americans against COVID-19. Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Will Weissert Associated Press -- 11/16/20 

✅ Trump, Trying to Cling to Power, Fans Unrest and Conspiracies -- Before going to play golf at his club in Virginia for the second day in a row on Sunday, the president once again lashed out at the news media and Mr. Biden’s supporters, retweeting reports of a university professor who said that anyone who voted for the Democrat was “ignorant, anti-American and anti-Christian.” In his tweet, Mr. Trump called that “Progress!” Michael D. Shear in the New York Times$ -- 11/16/20

OC Covid: today's numbers—and the trend

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1 comment:

Bob said...

Many of the former overseas students who came her, stayed here--MDs, dentists, attorneys, researchers, teachers and the like. What a loss for us when the declines are so striking.

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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