Two Marginal Universities (Both Majoring in F-1 Foreign Students) Are in Trouble
By David North on May 30, 2019
Two marginal universities, each with large numbers of foreign students on F-1 visas, are facing threats of termination in the near future, and one of the two already has announced the impending closure of three of its seven U.S. campuses.
The Department of Homeland Security – that's the agency that could decide whether colleges may admit foreign students or not – has had nothing to do with any of this, which is, sadly, the norm.
The two in trouble are the multi-campus Stratford University, and the single campus (and single building) Virginia International University; both are headquartered in Northern Virginia. Both had accreditations from an entity, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), an organization which was de-recognized by the Obama Administration as having too lax standards, and then was revived by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who has a different set of standards. But the associated nearly two years of uncertainty had an adverse impact on the ability of the two universities to attract foreign students.
https://cis.org/North/Two-Marginal-Universities-Both-Majoring-F1-Foreign-Students-Are-Trouble
