Education institutions in the US have rushed to reassure international students and faculty after the president signed an executive order banning entry of all refugees for 120 days and citizens from seven mostly Muslim countries for 90 days, as well as all Syrian refugees indefinitely. “Let me unequivocally state that American citizens will not tolerate policies such as these that

  President Donald Trump’s clash with Silicon Valley over immigration is about to become even more contentious. After the new president banned refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Microsoft and others railed against the move, saying it violated the country’s principles and risked disrupting its engine of innovation. Trump’s next steps could strike even closer

President Trump’s executive order to bar all refugees from entering the United States, as well as citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries, had college leaders scrambling over the weekend to respond. Many colleges released statements saying they would not turn over confidential student records to law-enforcement agencies beyond the federal government’s current requirement. For example, in a written statement, Richard H.

Mohammed Salih is precisely the type of academic the United States would want to keep within its borders: a 33-year-old doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication studying how extremist movements in the Middle East use and manipulate the media.  It’s a research area with obvious implications for counterterrorism operations. And it’s one that Salih wants to