On February 1, reports emerged that Liu Lijun, a Chinese national studying at the University of California, Los Angeles, is facing deportation after participating in anti-Israel protests on campus. Liu’s case marks one of the first applications of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on January 29. This order targets—among other things—foreign students […]
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Nearly a decade ago, my then colleague Andrew Gillen suggested that one could say that higher education was in a bit of a “bubble”: over-exuberant “investors” in human capital, better known as students, were potentially misallocating their resources, becoming increasingly underemployed after graduation, leading to adverse financial consequences. In the private sector, bubbles, like those […]
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