I walked across the campus of a major elite university a while back and did not hear one word of english spoken.
Beginning with just 26,000 international students in the 1949-50 school year, the number of foreign students neared 1.1 million in 2019-20.
universities began to enroll more full-paying foreign and out-of-state students for financial reasons as well as to achieve diversity.
Over the past decade, for example, Purdue University has reduced its in-state student population by 4,300 while adding 5,300 out-of-state and foreign students, who pay triple the tuition. “They moved away from working to educate people in their region to competing for the most elite and wealthy students—in a way that was unprecedentedT