How have the terrorist attacks affected international education?
As many have observed, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 did not affect the United States alone; they were an assault on global civilization itself. A roll call of the dead suggests how widespread were the losses: citizens of more than 80 countries died in the attacks. Among those killed were international students who chose to study here in part because they respected our ideals of freedom and tolerance and felt welcomed by our society. What troubles me is that in our response to the attacks we may compromise these very ideals and make the United States less a beacon of freedom around the world. We read in media accounts that some of the terrorists were in the U.S. on student visas. In fact, however, while those who attended flight schools entered the country on M-visas for vocational training programs, none of the terrorists was here on a student (F) visa for higher education. How might congressional action affect international students? There are a number of proposals before Congres
