Universities suffer as international student enrollment declines; - Joanna Hlavacek, LJ World

Like its peers across the country, the University of Kansas is seeing a decline in international enrollment — “but not terribly so, thankfully,” Chancellor Douglas Girod said Monday. After about a decade of growth, universities nationwide began reporting dwindling numbers of international students in fall 2016, a trend exacerbated, some college administrators have argued, by President Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric and restrictive immigration and travel policies. A recent report by the Institute of International Education revealed universities have seen an average decrease of about 7 percent from fall 2016 to fall 2017. At KU, that number is closer to 5 percent, according to a report from its Office of Institutional Research and Planning. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2018/jan/15/universities-suffer-enrollment-international-stude/