USM chancellor hails retraction of 'capricious, misguided' student visa rule change

Federal government officials agreed to rescind the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement's new rules for international students that roiled colleges and universities this week. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this month filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the rules. Hundreds of higher education institutions and associations across the U.S. joined them in opposing the new policies, including several in Greater Washington providing…