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US universities are recruiting Indian and Nigerian students to replace Chinese.  It's not worki
US universities are recruiting Indian and Nigerian students to replace Chinese. It's not worki Kwabena Ofori Osei 23 Views • 1 year ago

Chinese university students contribute over $14 billion a year to the US economy. But Chinese families are increasingly choosing to either study in China, or to other countries.

This shift is deepening the fiscal crises in American higher education, which also suffers from a steep decline in US student populations.

US universities are heavily recruiting students from India and Africa, in the hope to make up for shortfalls in Chinese enrollments. And briefly, this strategy seemed to work. A surge in students from India pushed China into second place, as a leading country of origin for US international students.

But that was short-lived. Indian enrollment in the past year plunged, with 99,000 fewer students. Nigeria also saw double-digit percentage declines in just a one-year period.

A more serious problem, however, exists in the financial commitments of the students' families. Chinese students cluster in the most highly-ranked, and most expensive, US university programs. In comparison, Indian and especially Nigerian students tend to attend far lower-cost programs.

Closing scene, Detian Waterfall, near Nanning, Guangxi

Resources and links:

LA Times, Why Chinese students still want to attend U.S. universities
https://www.latimes.com/world-....nation/story/2025-02

Interest in studying in US dropped 42% in January
https://www.universityworldnew....s.com/post.php?story

There are already 130,000 fewer international students in the US. Has anyone noticed?
https://distributedprogress.su....bstack.com/p/theres-

Already facing Trump administration cuts, US colleges risk losses from another revenue source: foreign students
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/18..../us/international-st

SEVIS Data Shows Declining Number of International Students in the United States
https://www.aau.edu/newsroom/l....eading-research-univ

Wall Street Journal, Chinese Students on U.S. Campuses Are Ensnared in Political Standoff
https://www.wsj.com/politics/p....olicy/china-us-stude

Tracking College Closures and Mergers
https://www.bestcolleges.com/r....esearch/closed-colle

The Demographic Cliff: What It Means for College Admissions and Higher Education
https://www.applerouth.com/blo....g/the-demographic-cl

US: New survey shows international student recruitment shifting to India in 2023
https://monitor.icef.com/2023/....07/us-new-survey-sho

Why the Next Wave of International Students May Come From Africa
https://www.bestcolleges.com/n....ews/wave-of-internat

Judas and the black Messiah; Fred Hampton Documentary 1990   COINTELPRO  Black Panthers
Judas and the black Messiah; Fred Hampton Documentary 1990 COINTELPRO Black Panthers Kwadwo Danmeara Tòkunbọ̀ Datɛ 23 Views • 5 months ago

The real story of Judas and the Black Messiah.
Shared for historical purposes. I do not own the rights.
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Fredrick Allen Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was a black activist and revolutionary socialist. He came to prominence in Chicago as chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP. In this capacity, he founded the Rainbow Coalition, a prominent multicultural political organization that initially included the Black Panthers, Young Patriots, and the Young Lords, and an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change.

In 1967, Hampton was identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a radical threat. The FBI tried to subvert his activities in Chicago, sowing disinformation among black progressive groups and placing a counterintelligence operative in the local Panthers. In December 1969, Hampton was shot and killed in his bed during a predawn raid at his Chicago apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation; during the raid, Panther Mark Clark was also killed and several others were seriously wounded. In January 1970, a coroner's jury held an inquest and ruled the deaths of Hampton and Clark to be justifiable homicide.

A civil lawsuit was later filed on behalf of the survivors and the relatives of Hampton and Clark. It was resolved in 1982 by a settlement of $1.85 million; the City of Chicago, Cook County, and the federal government each paid one-third to a group of nine plaintiffs. Given revelations about the illegal COINTELPRO program and documents associated with the killings, many scholars now consider Hampton's death an assassination under the FBI's initiative.

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