Communications of the ACM
Visa Restrictions for Chinese Students Alarm Academia
Le Fang, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University at Buffalo, received a five-year F-1 visa in 2015. But the new policy could hurt his friends whose visas recently expired, he says.
Credit: Libby March / The New York Times
President Trump's confrontation with China is beginning to ripple through American academic and research institutions, as a crackdown on visas for certain Chinese citizens has left the higher education community wondering how it will adapt to the administration's effort to stop intellectual property theft and slow China's push for technological supremacy.
Educators and academic groups fear that the additional scrutiny could hinder scientific innovation, alienate talented applicants, or intensify aggressions toward Chinese scientists already in the country.
Academics are already wrestling with the increased attention.
From The New York Times
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