Bryn Mawr has joined a number of public and private colleges and universities across the country in signing an amicus curiae or friend of the court brief in a suit brought by Harvard University on behalf of international students and scholars.
Harvard is suing in the First Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a judge’s preliminary injunction preventing the Department of Homeland Security from blocking the University from using student visas to enroll international students and scholars.
The amicus brief notes that the stability of student visa programs is essential to universities and colleges to fulfill their teaching, research, and public service missions and to the United States’ economic and civic prosperity. It reads in part: “Student visa recipients have helped make the United States’ colleges and universities world-class research institutions tackling the world’s most pressing problems. These students have gone on to cure diseases, invent transformational technologies, and found companies that have fueled American economic growth.”
Signatories to the amicus brief are:
American University
Amherst College
Arizona State University
Barnard College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
California Institute of Technology
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Colby College
Colorado State University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Georgetown University
Grinnell College
Illinois Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Middlebury College
Mount Holyoke College
Notre Dame University
Oregon State University
Princeton University
Rice University
Smith College
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
Tufts University
University of Chicago
University of Dayton
University of Denver
University of Maryland, Baltimore
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Michigan
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rhode Island
University of San Diego
University of Vermont
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Yale University