Bard College Joins Amicus Brief in Support of Harvard-MIT Lawsuit against Trump Administration’s New ICE Guidelines for International Students

Bard College has joined an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to block the new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) guidelines for international students announced last week. The guidelines seek to strip international students of their visas if their course of study is entirely online. Bard signed on to the brief filed by the Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, of which it is a founding member.

In a letter to the community last week, Bard College President Leon Botstein wrote, “We consider these guidelines to be senseless, ill-conceived, and completely at odds with Bard’s mission and its role as an international partner in higher education.”
 
The College will continue to support international students currently enrolled, or considering enrollment at Bard, and will continue working with its representatives in Congress to strike down these guidelines and to push for action to speed visa approvals for international students.
 

Post Date: 07-13-2020