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The coronavirus pandemic led to more than 1.7 million deaths and 79 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 the disease caused by the virus and international students around the world largely escaped health affects but were disrupted in their studies.
Higher education in the United States also was roiled by a huge admissions scandal and immigration restrictions, which punctuated a chaotic and anxiety-ridden year.
The issues:
College admissions scandal
Nearly three dozen parents, including Full House actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, were sentenced in a high-profile college admissions scandal that revealed wealthy parents buying their children s way into college.
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Community colleges sometimes seen as a lesser alternative for college students can get many students started on a more flexible and less costly path toward a degree.
These schools offer an associate’s degree in two years that is transferable to many four-year institutions for a bachelor’s degree. Once called junior colleges, they popped up in the U.S. around the turn of the 1900s.
The biggest draw of community colleges is their affordability.
While the average tuition at public four-year schools for the 2017-2018 academic school year was $26,261, and $46,014 at private institutions, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, those numbers understate the cost of many private competitive universities.
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The year 2020 has been an annus horribilis for the world economy, global health－and Sino-US relations. Bilateral relations further deteriorated due wholly to the United States hostile trade and security policies toward China.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo s statement during an interview on Aug 31 is an apt example of why Sino-US ties have deteriorated: Look, not every Chinese student who is here is working on behalf of or at the behest of, the direction of the Chinese Communist Party, but it s something President Trump has taken a serious, serious look at.
In line with Pompeo s remarks, some universities in the US either asked some Chinese students and researchers to leave or expelled them, with the University of North Texas in Denton expelling 15 visiting scholars from China in late August.