Yesterday, in a Massachusetts court room, the U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agreed to rescind its July 6th rule for international students.\u00a0 It was a win not only for international students but also for the United States.<\/p>\n
The pain and uncertainty caused by the ICE directive on international students was cruel and unnecessary.\u00a0 Having spent the past several months coping with the pandemic both here in Connecticut and back in your home countries, we know how demoralized, anxious, and angry many of you feel.\u00a0 Coming on top of several years of rising xenophobia and restrictive immigration policies, this unfair targeting of international students goes against the fundamental values of our university, as stated both by President Katsouleas, in his Declaration<\/a> supporting the State of Connecticut joining the nationwide lawsuit, and by Provost Lejuez, in his recent message<\/a> to the UConn community.<\/p>\n It was the strong opposition of many international students and their allies, such as educators in higher education institutions, legislators, attorneys, business leaders, and the general public in many states, that made the Trump administration reverse its directive. Although this directive is no longer in force, we know that you are still impacted by the message that it sent and the stress it caused.<\/p>\n We want you to know that UConn\u2019s Office of Global Affairs in particular understands and values our international students, scholars, and staff.\u00a0 You are important contributors to our classrooms, our labs, our teams, our clubs, our residence halls, our offices, and our lives.\u00a0 You help to make us a vibrant intellectual and cultural community.\u00a0 You are a key part of the UConn family.<\/p>\n As we always have, UConn\u2019s Office of Global Affairs will fight to ensure that our university remains a truly global university, with students, faculty, and staff from all parts of the world.\u00a0 Like the United States, our greatness is rooted in our diversity. Diversity invigorates the community, by bringing new perspectives and experiences from which to learn. An attack on you is an attack on us, and an attack on the ideals that are at the very core of the University’s mission, and to which this country aspires.<\/p>\n From this experience, we hope that you have regained your faith in the United States and its people.\u00a0 We admire your courage.<\/p>\n Sincerely, —<\/p>\n Rae Alexander<\/em> Zahra Ali<\/em> Mark Boyer<\/em> Kathryn Libal<\/em> Glenn Mitoma<\/em> Roy Pietro<\/em> Yuhang Rong<\/em> Susan Rosman<\/em> Ngozi Taffe<\/em> Daniel Weiner<\/em> Matthew Yates<\/em> UConn\u2019s Office of Global Affairs stands with you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":183879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2380],"class_list":["post-183875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-affairs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 09:52:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183881,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183875\/revisions\/183881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/183879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183875"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=183875"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=183875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUniversity of Connecticut
\nOffice of Global Affairs Senior Leadership Team<\/p>\n
\nDirector, International Student & Scholar Services<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDirector, Global Partnerships & Outreach<\/em><\/p>\n
\nExecutive Director, International Studies Association<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDirector, Human Rights Institute<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDirector, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDirector, Global Training and Development Institute<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAssociate Vice President for Global Affairs<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDirector, Financial Management<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAssistant Vice President for Global Affairs<\/em><\/p>\n
\nVice President for Global Affairs<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDirector, Education Abroad<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"