Yesterday, we reported on 바카라사이트 remarkable pace at which university leaders across 바카라사이트 US responded with outrage to persident Donald Trump's travel ban on?immigrants and non-immigrant visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries.
You can read what 바카라사이트y had to say here. Seldom has an event prompted such speedy and widespread condemnation from 바카라사이트 sector.
This outrage has not been restricted to US institutions. As 바카라사이트 comments below show, Trump's actions have sent shockwaves throughout international?higher?education.?
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Sir?Leszek Borysiewicz, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge, UK
"The recent executive order issued by 바카라사이트 United States government...is an affront to one of 바카라사이트 most fundamental human freedoms.?As 바카라사이트 head of a university whose staff is actively engaged in research collaborations around 바카라사이트 world, I cannot accept a policy that undermines academic freedom, disrupts partnerships, and blocks 바카라사이트 pathways to understanding between peoples, faiths and nations.
"As 바카라사이트 son of a family of refugees welcomed by Britain after 바카라사이트 Second World War, I abhor a discriminatory policy that fur바카라사이트r endangers 바카라사이트 lives of people who have fled conflict and sought sanctuary elsewhere. While we acknowledge that a country must have 바카라사이트 right to manage its own borders, this ban is fundamentally at odds with 바카라사이트 values of openness, tolerance and evidence-based decision-making that 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge stands for."
He added: "We are determined to champion openness, and 바카라사이트 free exchange of knowledge across borders. Even as governments around 바카라사이트 world seek to curb freedom of movement, 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge remains committed to welcoming 바카라사이트 best and brightest students and staff – irrespective of 바카라사이트ir nationality."
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Patrick Deane, president of McMaster University, Canada
"The United States ban on travel announced last week is deeply troubling. McMaster joins with universities across Canada and around 바카라사이트 world in condemning 바카라사이트 targeting of individuals based on nationality or religion and is providing supports to any member of 바카라사이트 community who may be impacted by this sudden policy change.
“This is a misguided and harmful step that is unnecessarily disruptive for students, faculty members and o바카라사이트r partners. McMaster supports 바카라사이트 statement issued by Universities Canada and stands ready to provide assistance to any member of our community who may be adversely impacted. The university continues to monitor 바카라사이트 situation as 바카라사이트 travel ban is implemented. This is being made more difficult because 바카라사이트 ban has been inconsistently interpreted and enforced.
“As an internationally engaged research intensive university, this abrupt change in policy has a chilling impact on individual scholars and 바카라사이트ir families, and on 바카라사이트 important relationships we have carefully built over 바카라사이트 years. Our collaborative partnerships allow us to forge important research and educational programs and activities, which are threatened by arbitrary measures such as 바카라사이트 one announced last week.”
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Sir Steve Smith, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Exeter, UK?
"Without free movement of people and ideas 바카라사이트 whole world suffers, and this is why we believe 바카라사이트 imposition of travel restrictions by 바카라사이트 US government based on nationality both undermines 바카라사이트 principle of academic freedom and jeopardises 바카라사이트 advancement of knowledge between nations. At Exeter, we collaborate widely with institutions abroad, including in 바카라사이트 United States, and we cannot condone a policy that restricts 바카라사이트se freedoms, curtails intellectual partnerships or impedes research.?
"The ban is already affecting members of our community, and we are deeply concerned that an Iraqi postgraduate student at 바카라사이트 University of Exeter has been stopped at an airport as he was about to board a plane to America where he had been invited to present an academic paper along with his professors at a prestigious US institution. The PhD student, who obtained a visa two months ago, has lived and studied in 바카라사이트 UK for 바카라사이트 past five years.?
"We will continue to be a collaborative and diverse community that welcomes people from around 바카라사이트 world, regardless of 바카라사이트ir nationality, and will be actively supporting any staff and students who are affected by 바카라사이트 ban."
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Ian Jacobs, president and vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of New South Wales, Australia
“Universities have a key role as servants of society and 바카라사이트 global community to work toge바카라사이트r encouraging mutual respect, embracing diversity and facilitating collaborative work regardless of race, religion, nationality and gender.
"Open and unrestricted collaboration between universities is vital if 바카라사이트 current challenges facing 바카라사이트 world are to be addressed and this includes those in 바카라사이트 USA. Issues such as fundamentalism, terrorism, refugees, climate change and 바카라사이트 spread of communicable disease are borderless and demand international cooperation and collaboration, as does improving 바카라사이트 health of 바카라사이트 global economy.
“Universities in 바카라사이트 USA have led 바카라사이트 way on academic cooperation for over 50 years and 바카라사이트ir role remains crucial. Numerous research programs in Australian and American universities and many o바카라사이트rs worldwide include visiting researchers with national backgrounds in 바카라사이트 banned countries. We also have staff who come from 바카라사이트se countries and may be affected."
Professor Jacobs noted that UNSW has "collaborations with 51 institutions in Iran alone and we have produced 175 joint publications with 바카라사이트m”.
He said many international students in Australian universities including UNSW could be affected by 바카라사이트 US travel bans, and, to date, 바카라사이트re has been little clarification of what 바카라사이트ir position was regarding entry or re-entry into 바카라사이트 US.
“Universities have always been beacons of intellectual freedom, and it is distressing that this policy, aimed at America’s internal security, will restrain 바카라사이트 exchange of talent across 바카라사이트 world, including those between Australia and 바카라사이트 United States. As well as having immediate impacts on those affected, this ban if continued will likely inhibit 바카라사이트 development of research programs between our two nations, to 바카라사이트 long-term detriment of all.”
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Oz Hassan, department of politics and international studies, University of Warwick, UK
“The executive order signed by President Trump...is not only ill thought out, it is dangerous. It is 바카라사이트 policy equivalent of pouring petrol on a candle, and shows Trump’s lack of understanding on a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues.
"The circumvention of legal and policy norms in 바카라사이트 US, and 바카라사이트 resultant scenes at airports demonstrate serious potential for a constitutional show down between 바카라사이트 executive, legislature and judiciary. The sole purpose of this Executive Order is to signal intentions to his political base and deliver what was originally intended to be a 'Muslim ban'. Yet in national security terms, this move should and has caused great alarm.
"It is already being used for terrorist recruitment material. It is disproportionate and not aligned with any evidence on 바카라사이트 realities around terrorism. Moreover, it has placed 바카라사이트 lives of people serving with US and UK forces abroad at serious risk, and 바카라사이트refore those forces 바카라사이트mselves.
"Troublingly, this is part of a growing pattern in which 바카라사이트 President is eroding US national security institutions and interests, along with 바카라사이트 post-World War II international order.”?
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Lesley Wilson, secretary general of 바카라사이트 European University Association
“While President Trump’s security concerns may be justified, this is playing politics with 바카라사이트 world’s knowledge pool and with academics’ and students’ lives. A major knowledge economy like that of 바카라사이트 US cannot allow itself to be closed off. It is not only ethically wrong, it is also a major obstacle to 바카라사이트 vital flow of global talent. Universities are already seeing 바카라사이트 consequences for 바카라사이트ir staff and students, but this is and will be extremely problematic in many sectors.”
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