Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee Could Strain Universities and Schools

[Timber Rattler]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-h-1b-visa-fee-universities.html

President Trump’s $100,000 fee for new H-1B visas will have major consequences for tech companies and financial firms. But the effects of the new fee will also ripple across the education system and show up in classrooms across the country.

Higher education leaders and public-school superintendents say the steep fee will hurt schools that depend on foreign workers to fill critical teaching roles. Some university and college presidents said it would impede their ability to hire faculty members through the visa program, which allows educated foreign citizens to work in “specialty occupations.” Others said their school districts could not afford the fee, making it harder for them to find math and special education teachers.

The change is yet another blow to colleges and universities that have been squeezed by the Trump administration’s barrage of attacks on higher education. Federal officials have frozen billions in research funds, demanded hefty payments from top schools, intensified vetting of student visas and pursued civil rights investigations into dozens of universities.

Administration officials say the H-1B visa program lets employers sideline American workers and suppress their wages. They have argued that the new fee will help counter that by encouraging employers to prioritize hiring domestic workers.

But some education leaders said they worried the change would make institutions less competitive and restrict their ability to hire the best candidates.

“It’s not as if this is done on a whim because we’re trying to replace American workers,” said Lynn Pasquerella, the president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. “It is done based on what the Trump administration is calling for — on merit and who’s the most qualified.”

Dr. Pasquerella said many schools depended on the visas to fill positions in the STEM and medical fields. She said she was particularly concerned that the pipeline for foreign physicians would be further constrained.

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Which tells you that they've been exploiting and abusing the system all along, at the expense of American citizens.

[Kamaji]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-h-1b-visa-fee-universities.html

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Which tells you that they've been exploiting and abusing the system all along, at the expense of American citizens.

Except with respect to certain very technical specialties, and then only at the graduate level, I find it very hard to believe that our university system cannot find sufficient graduates from its own vineyards to fill almost every teaching position, and then some.

[The_Reader_David]

Except with respect to certain very technical specialties, and then only at the graduate level, I find it very hard to believe that our university system cannot find sufficient graduates from its own vineyards to fill almost every teaching position, and then some.

To the extent that a university is an educational institution, you are absolutely correct.  However, the point of going to a university, rather than to a college, is that universities are also research institutions, and one goes to them so as to learn from people who are at the cutting edge of their discipline at least in the upper-level courses in one's major. 

Trump's simultaneous attacks on legal immigration and universities are attacks on one thing that made America great in the first place.  The Manhattan Project was full of university professors, the best of whom were largely immigrants.  If we want to stay ahead of China in AI or anything else, cutting off foreign talent and attacking scientific research are exactly the wrong thing to do.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

To the extent that a university is an educational institution, you are absolutely correct.  However, the point of going to a university, rather than to a college, is that universities are also research institutions, and one goes to them so as to learn from people who are at the cutting edge of their discipline at least in the upper-level courses in one's major. 

Trump's simultaneous attacks on legal immigration and universities are attacks on one thing that made America great in the first place.  The Manhattan Project was full of university professors, the best of whom were largely immigrants.  If we want to stay ahead of China in AI or anything else, cutting off foreign talent and attacking scientific research are exactly the wrong thing to do.

Nobody is 'cutting off' foreign talent by any stretch.  Any legitimate foreigner can come here and pay for their study.  We only exclude undesirables who do not believe in the America we know.  They must recognize they are guests, otherwise they are unwelcome.

And universities have done this to themselves by only desiring $ from people, not paying attention to whether their background, and defending undesirables that do not care for this country, some of which actively undermine it.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Then there is this.  It is laughable to say universities are 'only doing research'.  They are undermining America and that must stop.

Universities Took Over $60 BILLION in Foreign Gifts to Fund Radical Left Programs
by Gregory Lyakhov Oct. 12, 2025

For decades, American universities have taken billions of dollars from foreign governments and entities.

Nearly $60 billion in gifts and contracts has been funneled to colleges across the country, often without the required federal reporting.

This money is not harmless. It buys influence, shapes research priorities, and gives hostile nations access to sensitive information.

Ten of the nation’s top universities—Harvard, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Penn, MIT, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Georgetown, and Columbia—alone accepted more than $20 billion.

Harvard took in over $3.2 billion, Cornell nearly $2.8 billion, and Columbia more than $1.1 billion.

These are schools that set the tone for American politics, research, and culture.

They are also the same institutions that push left-wing ideology while taking money from countries that oppose the United States.

Federal law requires transparency on foreign contracts and gifts, but those rules are weakly enforced.

Universities often fail to comply fully, and Democrats have shown no interest in holding them accountable.

That means adversaries like China, Russia, and Qatar can spend massive sums to gain access to intellectual property and shape what is taught in American classrooms, often without the public ever knowing.

In his second term, President Trump has expanded efforts to expose hidden foreign influence in higher education.

His administration strengthened federal oversight by directing the Department of Education to pursue schools that failed to comply with reporting requirements.

Universities are now compelled to disclose hundreds of millions in unreported foreign gifts and contracts, often from adversarial nations. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/universities-took-60-billion-foreign-gifts-fund-radical/ [/quite]

[Smokin Joe]

In his second term, President Trump has expanded efforts to expose hidden foreign influence in higher education.

His administration strengthened federal oversight by directing the Department of Education to pursue schools that failed to comply with reporting requirements.

Universities are now compelled to disclose hundreds of millions in unreported foreign gifts and contracts, often from adversarial nations. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/universities-took-60-billion-foreign-gifts-fund-radical/

All for it.