U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that U.S. colleges would struggle without Chinese students, amid a backlash from his base after he suggested he could let 600,000 Chinese college students into the country as part of trade talks with the economic rival.

  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Booohoo the colleges that charge too much for tuition and spend it all on sports and upgrades and beauty.

    Meanwhile the US citizens struggle without healthcare, food, education, and jobs. But the colleges are stable, thank the gods!

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      3 months ago

      To be fair , if foreign students are coming and paying tuition, that does provide some small benefit on the jobs front as both the money the college then spends and that spent by the students in the area around the school should create demand that requires a workforce to fill.

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      2 months ago

      College sports are typically a net income for the university.

      So are foreign students because they are typically charged higher tuition.

      But we wouldn’t need sports or international students to subsidize our tuition if it got more funding from the government…

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    3 months ago

    “you guys would be in so much trouble if I didn’t provide a lackluster solution to the problem I caused”.

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    3 months ago

    They’ll struggle if you cancel billions of dollars in research funding. But I guess that’s not being represented by an autocrat you want to suck up to because your negotiating strategy is to just get rolled by anyone with power.