US Schools struggle to combat foreign student drop
Educators encourage active recruitment, hope numbers will climb back up
 | Students take a picture in front of the statue of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong after the graduation ceremony at Fudan University in Shanghai earlier this year. China's universities have stepped up recruitment of international students. |
Aly Song / Reuters file |
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By Sakina Sadat Hussain
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 12:26 a.m. ET Aug 8, 2006
Five years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, U.S. colleges and universities are fighting to reverse what some consider an alarming decline in foreign student enrollment.
Despite a tightening of visa regulations in the months immediately following the attacks, foreign student enrollment actually increased in 2001, in part because of students who already had applied or enrolled. But since then numbers have steadily declined.
