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The Department of Homeland Security says they have put some colleges and universities \u201con notice\u201d that they could be in violation of federal rules that dictate work opportunities for international students.<\/p>\n

The directive has left some of those students feeling worried, as their schools pause opportunities to work in the United States.<\/p>\n

And experts warn that it could have adverse effects on U.S. industry and global growth.<\/p>\n

What does DHS say?<\/p>\n

In late August, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, part of the Department of Homeland Security, issued a statement<\/a> stating that they have \u201cobserved a rise” in violations related to Curricular Practical Training.<\/p>\n

CPT is paid or unpaid work that students do as part of their degree program, like an internship. The administration says regulatory requirements permit CPT only where the training is \u201can integral part of an established curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a written statement, an unnamed DHS spokesperson told LAist, \u201cNothing about these regulations has changed. However, schools and employers should consider themselves on notice: under President Trump, abuse of this generous system will no longer be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

LAist reached out to DHS for the percentage increase in CPT violations and specifically asked for data related to Southern California schools. We have not received an answer.<\/p>\n

How have local universities responded?<\/p>\n

Following the memo from the department, several universities including the University of Southern California<\/a>, UCLA and UC Berkeley have paused or required additional information to determine if work experience is a requirement for a particular degree program.<\/p>\n

In a written statement to LAist, a spokesperson for the UCLA Dashew Center said, \u201cUCLA has paused certain Curricular Practical Training authorizations while the university reviews recent federal guidance and determines next steps. UCLA is communicating directly with students who have affected CPT applications and remains committed to supporting our international students as we navigate these changes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why it matters<\/p>\n

For students, this is causing uncertainty.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt came as a surprise to all the international students. We were not aware of it and there is a lot of tension among the international students,\u201d said Nitesh, a student from India at USC. He asked that we only use his first name for fear of repercussions from speaking to the media.<\/p>\n

Those who applied for CPT authorizations after Aug. 23 at USC now are in limbo waiting to see if their applications will be approved.<\/p>\n

\u200a\u201dIt is a real industry exposure to us when it comes to learning,\u201d Nithesh said about the CPT component. \u201cWe definitely get lots of learnings and value from classes and by doing projects, but CPT is a way for us to understand what happens in the industry and keep us up to date.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nitesh, who took out an $85,000 loan to come to the U.S. for his degree program, said he would have reconsidered coming here had he known about these regulations ahead of time.<\/p>\n

\u200a\u201dBecause there is a lot happening and nobody has clarity, so there is a lot of ambiguity, and we are just waiting for the right information to come in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

International enrollment impact<\/p>\n

The memo is the latest in a string of directives targeting international students. Earlier this year, the Trump administration announced new rules limiting how long international students can remain<\/a> in the country, as opposed to remaining in the U.S. for as long as it takes to complete their degree program.<\/p>\n

Santa Monica College has seen a drastic drop in international student enrollments: In fall 2016, the community college had more than 3,500 international students enrolled; that number has dropped to less than 1,600 this year.<\/p>\n

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Grace Smith, a spokesperson for Santa Monica College said, \u201cIn recent years, several interconnected federal restrictions continue to exert pressure on international enrollment and are likely to impact future enrollment cycles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Declining international student enrollment has a \u201csignificant impact on the college\u2019s fiscal outlook,\u201d Smith said as international student enrollment accounts for about 8% of the college\u2019s unrestricted revenue.<\/p>\n

Caltech\u2019s president Ray Jayawardhana told LAist\u2019s AirTalk program that he came to the U.S. as an international student from Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u200aGrowing up in Sri Lanka, I thought of universities like Caltech in the United States as beacons on a hill,\u201d he said. \u201cThey really were beckoning the best and the brightest from around the world, and I think it behooves us to preserve that attraction, preserve that draw, so that this country and the world at large benefits from students, from researchers, from scholars.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the uncertainties are \u201cdiscouraging,\u201d Jayawardhana said, Caltech is seeing \u201ccontinued interest that’s as strong as ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Caltech president Ray Jayawardhana<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Ray Jayawardhana, astrophysicist and former provost of Johns Hopkins University, was named the 10th president of Caltech. Along with being the face of the school’s operations, he is also set to oversee NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.<\/p>\n

Hits to the U.S. economy<\/p>\n

Rachel Banks, \u200asenior director for public policy and legislative strategy at NAFSA: Association of International Educators, said the current climate for international students is the \u201cmost difficult and most challenging\u201d it has been since World War II.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving gone through the first [Trump administration], there were certain expectations of what we might see coming,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat I think was unexpected was the severity and degree to which we saw the Trump administration make moves specifically with respect to international students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Banks says her organization projects that the loss of around 111,000 international student enrollments could cost the U.S. economy $3.4 billion and nearly 4,000 jobs. California\u2019s economy could see a hit of about $500 million because of declining enrollment.<\/p>\n

The volume of visa revocations, particularly for students involved in campus protests for Palestinian rights, was \u201cunprecedented,\u201d she said. The State Department\u2019s move to pause on interviews for visa applications and renewals was also something that hadn\u2019t happened at this scale before, Banks said. And the new visa limits for international students, she said, is \u201cincredibly disruptive\u201d and takes the decision making away from students and universities.<\/p>\n

The new memo about CPT authorizations adds to the uncertainty, she said.<\/p>\n

Following World War II, the government put a lot of emphasis into fostering and developing our higher education system, Banks said, which allowed universities \u201cto attract the best and brightest talent and that has led to the numerous innovations and achievements that we’ve been able to see come out of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

That talent, she said, will now look to go to other countries more favorable to international students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Homeland Security says they have put some colleges and universities \u201con notice\u201d that they could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-463542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}