Supporting Refugee Students’ Higher Ed Potential
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A little more than a year ago, President Biden issued an executive order to revitalize the U.S. refugee program, and his administration subsequently articulated plans to launch a pilot program allowing private entities to identify refugees for sponsorship and support their resettlement. Higher education leaders mobilized in response, knowing this could create a college and university pathway for refugee students to resettle, study and stay in the U.S. The intervening year has only made the case for such a pathway more clearly, with lessons from welcoming displaced Afghan students to campuses illuminating the important role colleges and universities have in meeting a global need for refugee students’ resettlement.
Originally published: February 25, 2022
Author: Leon Botstein, Michael Crow
Position: President
Institution: Arizona State University, Bard College
Published by: Inside Higher Ed