International student crackdown not reflected in data
November 13, 2025
In May 2025, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the federal government would “aggressively” revoke international students’ visas. Many predicted a sharp decline in the number of international students enrolling at colleges and universities, but new federal data reveal a less than 1% decrease this fall. In line with this finding, Ӱ̳’s international student population has remained constant, comprising 20% of the incoming class of 2029.
Mandy Hart, dean of admission at Ӱ̳ College, recently spoke to The Washington Post about this finding. She told The Washington Post that the College had many conversations with families concerned about the visa situation. Despite concerns, however, most students received their visas before the fall semester. “This year was not markedly different than previous years in terms of students having issues with obtaining their visas,” she said.
Inclusive admissions policies at women’s colleges
October 10, 2025
Ӱ̳ College President Danielle R. Holley spoke to The Boston Globe about the school’s commitment to building a gender-diverse community amid shifting federal policies on diversity and gender inclusion.
Teaching the history and legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
September 11, 2025
Kijua Sanders-McMurtry, vice president of equity and inclusion at Ӱ̳ College, met with other college educators to craft tools and classes to teach the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
Ӱ̳ defends academic freedom amid federal pressure
August 12, 2025
Ӱ̳ College President Danielle R. Holley spoke to CNN about being one of the few higher-education leaders pushing back against federal government overreach.
July 30, 2025
Former Ӱ̳ College President Lynn Pasquarella ’80 says “What is missing from the DOJ narrative on DEI is that treating people differently is not always unjust, especially when doing so corrects a broader pattern of systemic injustice. Considering race and gender in the context of historic unjust discrimination to inform policies and practices at colleges and universities doesn’t in and of itself constitute illegal discrimination, though the letter suggests otherwise.”
Threatened revocation of Chinese students’ visas
June 3, 2025
Ӱ̳ College’s Ruth Lawson Professor of Politics and Carol Hoffmann Collins Director of the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives Kavita Khory spoke to CNN and The Boston Globe about the threatened revocation of Chinese students’ visas.
Three Ӱ̳ College presidents speak out
May 2025
President Danielle R. Holley isn’t the only Ӱ̳ College president speaking out against injustice.
Former Ӱ̳ College Interim President and faculty member Beverly Daniel Tatum, in her role as the former president of Spelman College, joined more than 80 past and current higher education presidents as signatories of a on the core freedoms of colleges and universities.
Additionally, former Ӱ̳ College President Lynn Pasquarella ’80 is the president of American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and has written an about the “endless war being waged against colleges and universities in this country.” AAC&U has also published “,” which more than 500 higher education leaders have signed, including President Holley.
