Higher education funding should prioritize Americans

Originally published in the Washington Examiner

Columbia University is becoming the poster child for systemic problems in higher education.

The campus’s recent failure to protect the civil rights of Jewish students cost it $400 million in federal grants and contracts. And although last year’s campus antisemitism crisis extended nationwide — a point recently punctuated by a warning letter from the Trump administration to 60 universities — the special attention Columbia received is clearly deserved given its remarkably egregious behavior.

Columbia, as it turns out, also leads the way in another troubling college ranking.

According to the most recent data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, international students comprised an incredible 40% of Columbia’s student population. Columbia leads a pack of 27 large public and private non-profit universities where international students constitute more than 10% of the total student population.

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