Block Concerned About Barriers to Students from China

The LA Times had a recent article about changes in federal policy on student admissions from China. Excerpt below:

...UCLA and UC San Diego officials say their campuses have not seen a drop in Chinese international students planning to attend this fall, although final enrollments will not be known for months.

Among UCLA’s 3,300 Chinese students, nearly half of them are graduate or professional students, according to 2019-20 figures. Those pursuing advanced degrees make up about 35% of 5,617 Chinese students at UC San Diego.

“Chinese students, like many of our students ... bring tremendous intellectual power to the institution, make great contributions to the research effort,” said UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. “To the extent possible, we’d like to keep open borders and maintain a rich sort of global presence in our student body ... recognizing that we do understand there are security issues and we have to be mindful of those.”

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-07/trump-move-to-bar-entry-of-some-chinese-graduate-students-stirs-campus-anxiety-anger