The vanishing lifeline: How shrinking international enrollment is reshaping American higher education – The Times of India
FILE – (Matt Hamilton//Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, File) For decades, international students formed the unspoken foundation of American higher education, their presence quietly underwriting the ambitions of institutions that could not otherwise afford them. Far from being transient guests, they were the lifeline for universities perched on narrow financial margins. Their full, unsubsidized…