In fall 2025, a nationwide study reported a 17% drop in new international student enrollment at institutions of higher education based in the United States. What challenges may face international students and scholars seeking to pursue academic work in the US, and how are universities, academic associations, and others responding to these challenges? What new policies relating to immigration, research funding, academic freedom, and other issues are on the horizon, and what will these developments mean for international faculty, staff, and students—and for higher education more broadly? Join a panel of CU Boulder experts for a conversation exploring these questions and the future of the United States as a global center of higher learning. 

Featured panelists include Alaa Ahmed (Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the College of Engineering and Applied Science and Professor of Mechanical Engineering); Janet Garcia (International Employee Specialist and ISSS Liaison at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences); P. Deep Gulasekaram (Director of the Byron White Center and Professor of Law). This event will be moderated by Elias Sacks, Associate Professor of Religious Studies & Jewish Studies and Faculty Director for Public Scholarship at the Office of Faculty Affairs. 

Open to CU Boulder faculty, staff, and students, this in-person panel is part of CU Boulder’s ongoing nonpartisan series Federal Governance and Higher Education: Where Are We and Where Are We Going? This event is co-sponsored by the Division of Academic Affairs, the Office of Faculty Affairs, the Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship, the Boulder Faculty Assembly, Staff Council, and Strategic Relations and Communications

Space is limited to 50 attendees, so please RSVP to reserve your spot.
 

• Thursday, Feb. 19

• 4:30 - 5:45 p.m.

• CASE E422

Please RSVP by Feb. 12

If you require accommodations, including ASL interpretation, please contact the ADA Coordinator at ADACoordinator@Colorado.EDU or Ph. 303-492-9725. Two weeks advance notice of need for accommodations is requested.  

Questions? Please reach out to OFAFDS@Colorado.EDU.