The University of Pittsburgh released a statement regarding the federal policy change for international students. In the past few days, universities such as Harvard and MIT, have filed suit against the new visa rule.
Pitt’s statement:
This week’s federal policy change requiring international students to take in-person classes in the midst of a pandemic to keep their visa status is misguided, unfair, harmful to higher education across the United States and damaging to both regional and national economies. We join our peers in the Association of American Universities in calling on the administration to reverse this decision and permit international students to continue their educations through whatever means their institutions determine to be safest.
The University of Pittsburgh is assessing how this decision will affect our international students and will communicate with them directly about how they can best continue their Pitt education as we move forward with a flexible program that combines classroom instruction with online learning.
The Office of International Studies web site has more information for Pitt students.
