International students are a vital and enriching presence on any campus, writes Rachel Riedl, professor of government in the College of Arts and Sciences, in a New York Times op-ed. But over the past few months, current and prospective international students have felt increasingly unwelcome in this country.
“Fear and anxiety have begun to alter campus life,” Riedl writes in the piece, co-authored with Stephen Yale-Loehr, a retired professor of the practice at Cornell Law School. “At risk are the very concept of a university as a meeting point for intellectual thought from around the world and U.S. global leadership in higher education.”
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Enslavers posted as many as a quarter-million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves. Ed Baptist is leading the public crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move, that has digitized tens of thousands of these advertisements in an open-source site accessible to the public.
