Colleges have many tools to create an inclusive campus culture, among them equity audits and job-specific, anti-bias education. Shaming and blaming don’t help.
Even as men still occupy more of the top roles in higher education, the Community College of Denver breaks from the norm with an all-female executive leadership team.
But the authors of the CGS survey, which is based on an analysis of survey responses from about 280 mostly doctoral-granting institutions, found reason to think the trend line was going in a positive direction pre-pandemic, at least. We estimate that had it not been for the global pandemic, we might have more international graduate students enrolled at U.S. institutions in Fall 2020 than Fall 2019, they wrote.
But of course the pandemic happened, and international enrollments were hit hard by a combination of health concerns, pandemic-related travel restrictions and suspensions in normal visa processing at U.S. embassies and consulates. Additionally, guidance promulgated by the Trump administration last summer barred new international students from coming to the U.S. if they planned to take their courses entirely online.