"Current and prospective Purdue University graduate students say the institution rejected a slew of Chinese applicants from its grad programs for this academic year. Also, one grad student says the university told grad admissions committees in the past couple of months that it's highly unlikely to accept students from any "adversary nation" for next year."
"Faculty were told those countries are China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela, said Kieran Hilmer, a teaching assistant on the leadership committee of Graduate Rights and Our Wellbeing (GROW), a group trying to unionize Purdue grad workers. That list broadly matches the commerce secretary's catalog of foreign adversaries. Hilmer said the university conveyed this prohibition verbally. "They didn't write any of this down," he said."
"A Chinese student who wished to remain anonymous because he's still trying to get into Purdue told Inside Higher Ed he received an offer to be a research assistant last February, meaning his funding was secure to become a Purdue grad student this academic year. But, in April or May, he said, the Office of Graduate Admissions told him that his application was denied."
Purdue denied many Chinese applicants to its graduate programs this academic year and communicated to admissions committees that accepting students from designated adversary nations is highly unlikely for next year. Faculty were told those nations include China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela. A teaching assistant associated with Graduate Rights and Our Wellbeing said the prohibition was conveyed verbally. The university has not commented. The institution has faced congressional scrutiny over ties to China, and federal visa policy shifted earlier in the year. An anonymous Chinese applicant reported receiving a funded research assistant offer in February but later learning his application was denied.
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