{"id":176117,"date":"2026-03-03T09:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176117\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:36:06","slug":"florida-board-approves-ban-on-h-1b-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176117\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Board Approves Ban on H-1B Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA one-year pause, even if it goes away after one year, will have lasting effects,\u201d FAU professor Kimberly Dunn said.<\/p>\n<p>Sunshower Shots\/iStock Editorial\/Getty Images Plus<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Board of Governors on Monday approved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/faculty-issues\/research\/2026\/01\/29\/florida-now-accepting-public-comment-h-1b-visa-hiring-ban\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an eight-month pause on H-1B visas<\/a>, becoming the second state after Texas to ban public colleges and universities from hiring new faculty, researchers and medical residents through that visa program.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Florida governor Ron DeSantis asked the board to ban the use of H-1Bs in order to \u201cmake sure our citizens here in Florida are first in line for job opportunities\u201d and to limit professors coming from China\u00a0and elsewhere. During the pause, the chancellor\u2019s office will study the use and costs of H-1Bs at public institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor\u2019s office agrees that rather than a permanent stoppage, it\u2019s appropriate to study this issue\u2014to put a pause on it. For now, we\u2019re talking about eight months, nine months, while we collect some data,\u201d Chairman Alan Levine said during the board\u2019s meeting Monday. \u201cI think we need to move as quickly as possible to collect the information, and when we learn what we need to learn, then we can make some informed decisions about what the policy needs to be on a go-forward basis.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>H-1B visa holders that are already on campus are not subject to the pause, and their visas may be renewed if they expire during the pause.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kimberly Dunn, an associate professor of accounting at Florida Atlantic University and faculty representative to the board, spoke against the motion on Monday. She and student representative Carson Dale voted against the motion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA one-year pause, even if it goes away after one year, will have lasting effects\u201d on reputation and recruiting, Dunn said during the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"subscribe-box-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/themes\/custom\/ihe\/assets\/images\/svg\/envlope.svg\" alt=\"subscribe\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA one-year pause, even if it goes away after one year, will have lasting effects,\u201d FAU professor Kimberly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18025,113,684,28,30,29,18024,960,115],"class_list":["post-176117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-career","tag-education","tag-events","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-higher","tag-jobs","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}