Overview

• The 10-point memo proposes limiting international undergraduates to 15% of enrollment with no more than 5% from any single country in exchange for preferential access to federal funds.
• The document was sent to nine universities: University of Arizona, Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of Texas, University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt.
• Additional conditions include banning consideration of race or sex in admissions and hiring, requiring standardized tests, freezing tuition for five years, cutting administrative costs, and publishing graduate earnings by program.
• The memo also calls for ideological steps such as abolishing departments described as hostile to conservative ideas and screening foreign students for alignment with “American and Western values.”
• Reports flag potential effects on Indian and Chinese applicants who make up a large share of foreign students, while analysts stress the plan is targeted and voluntary and the AAC&U denounced the approach as coercive.