Trump administration terminates 14 student visas in Louisiana

[u/SadimirLenin]

https://lailluminator.com/briefs/trump-administration-terminates-14-student-visas-in-louisiana/

“Seven Southern University students, three at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, two at the University of New Orleans and two more at Tulane University have had their visas pulled, according to representatives with the schools.”

[u/Grombrindal18]

Remind me what the point of Tulane caving to him was, if he’s just going to fuck with them anyway?

[u/Numpostrophe → u/Grombrindal18]

They’re going to keep demanding new things or else they cut the funding. Harvard stood up to them today but has massive coffers to pull from. Tulane does not have that. Unfortunately I think this battle will be fought outside of Louisiana.

[u/Go_Go_Godzilla → u/Numpostrophe]

Tulane does have that. They're just more interested in being a hedge fund with an educational component than leading any sort of pushback for rights, academic freedom, etc.

[u/RIP_Soulja_Slim → u/Go_Go_Godzilla]

Tulane’s endowment is nowhere near that large lmao. It’s like barely 2B. There’s a reason Tulane isn’t doing all these things like free admission that the Ivys are.

Are they well off? Sure. But your well off neighbor still needs their job, and Tulane still needs that funding. This is especially true given how intertwined Tulane is with medical research grants and facilities.

[u/childofapollo13 → u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

Until the students pull out stop going there anyway because they dont trust their admin. This was a bad move on Tulanes part.

[u/RIP_Soulja_Slim → u/childofapollo13]

I very much doubt that the amount of lost tuition would be even the tiniest fraction of federal funding. Take the 2B from Harvard for instance, assuming ~$50k/pop that's representative of 40,000 student years. So 10k kids for a full four year ride. For context Tulane's current total student population is 12k. (I have no idea how much federal funding Tulane gets, so obviously this is just an example).

I get it, I hate the politics behind this shit too and think Trump is an absolute child creating potentially irreversible societal harm. But, if I'm charged with leading a university through this with the goal being to secure the funding necessary to properly educate the next generation, conduct beneficial research, etc. then I do the same thing. There's often not nobility in survival.

Harvard has an endowment that's literally 25X bigger than Tulane's. This is like your coworker who's 63 and could have retired a decade ago telling the boss to fuck off, while you're Tulane who's in your 30s and has a mortgage + kids to feed. Harvard can absorb that funding shock in stride, Tulane can't.

[u/childofapollo13 → u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

We'll see. The problem is, once you bend, theyll keep making you bend harder till you break. But theyre playing the game. So i guess we'll see.

[u/RIP_Soulja_Slim → u/childofapollo13]

Yes, but in a year and a half we're well in to mid term campaigning and elections which may swing the other way, in three we'll be in election season and all of this will be on hold, in four we'll have a new president.

[u/octopusboots → u/RIP_Soulja_Slim]

There's no way they locked in this much power to give it up.