{"id":176925,"date":"2026-03-03T22:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176925\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:28:16","slug":"florida-university-leaders-put-a-pause-on-hiring-international-faculty-and-staff-members-through-h-1b-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176925\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida university leaders put a pause on hiring international faculty and staff members through H-1B visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State University System&#8217;s Board of Governors on Monday approved a pause in hiring international faculty and staff members through what are known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/florida-h1b-visa-pause\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">H-1B visas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The measure directs each university&#8217;s board of trustees to &#8220;not utilize the H-1B program in its personnel program to hire any new employees through January 5, 2027.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the pause is in effect, officials will study the cost of the federal H-1B program, along with how it is used by the different universities.<\/p>\n<p>When the item was before the board on Jan. 29, critics raised concerns that the proposal could hinder Florida&#8217;s standing educationally and financially.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s entirely possible, and entirely probable, that many of the comments that we&#8217;ve heard have really good points,&#8221; said Board of Governors Chairman Alan Levine.<\/p>\n<p>In October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/desantis-florida-universities-higher-education-h-1b-visas\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> took aim at universities using H-1B visas to hire employees from other countries. He also described many H-1B hires as &#8220;cheap labor&#8221; to save money.<\/p>\n<p>In September, President Donald Trump restricted the issuance of the visas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The State University System&#8217;s Board of Governors on Monday approved a pause in hiring international faculty and staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4403,28,30,100,29,1841,2365,412],"class_list":["post-176925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-college","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-legislature","tag-florida-news","tag-immigration","tag-international","tag-ron-desantis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176925","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=176925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}