{"id":985,"date":"2025-04-11T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2025-04-13T00:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T00:16:46","slug":"student-govt-talks-study-away-in-wake-of-immigration-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/student-govt-talks-study-away-in-wake-of-immigration-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Student gov\u2019t talks study away in wake of immigration crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Members of NYU\u2019s Student Government Assembly quizzed its prospective Global Student Council vice-chairs on how they plan to address concerns related to immigration and discussed a $70,000 proposal to renovate the commuter lounge in Lipton Hall at this month\u2019s SGA meeting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Thursday, the three candidates for vice-chair of the GSC \u2014 the position responsible for consolidating students\u2019 opinions across NYU\u2019s 14 study-away sites \u2014 overviewed their plans to bolster support for study abroad students in the wake of a crackdown on immigration across college campuses. They said they aim to improve resources for students hoping to study abroad by clarifying which sites and circumstances could put them at risk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBeing aware that there is a lot of visa restrictions on students and that there\u2019s a lot of deportation cases in the USA is one of the main things I\u2019m currently working on,\u201d NYU Abu Dhabi junior Batool Al Tameemi, who currently holds the position and is now running for re-election, said during the discussion. \u201cI\u2019m having one-on-one conversations with students to direct them to reasonable, safe locations.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Al Tameemi also said she planned to organize meetings with the Office of the President to better assess student safety. CAS junior Charlotte Rollins, current site ambassador for NYU Florence, suggested more legal and emotional support for affected students and recommended increasing awareness about resources at NYU\u2019s Office of Global Services. Steinhardt junior Pei Lin Lui, former SGA London site ambassador and deputy director of marketing, was not asked about the issue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The conversations come as the Trump administration revokes hundreds of student visas across U.S. college campuses, many of which have been attributed to participation in pro-Palestinian protests. In a Wednesday night universitywide email, <\/span>President Linda Mills announced<\/span><\/a> that \u201csome members\u201d of members of the NYU community have been affected by the federal crackdown, and at least one adjunct assistant professor fled to Canada after her visa was terminated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Representatives from SGA\u2019s Initiative Fund committee also presented a $70,000 proposal to remodel the Lipton Commuter Den which has remained the same since <\/span>Lipton\u2019s renovation<\/span><\/a> in 2015. The renovations would upgrade the technology in the space, including its projectors, and provide more furniture and comfortable seating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SGA\u2019s Initiative Fund has a <\/span>$500,000 budget<\/span><\/a> dedicated to supporting student-led projects. Proposals typically only go through the initiative fund committee, however, instances that involve larger sums of money \u2014 such as the lounge renovation \u2014 are also presented to the broader student government.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the Initiative Fund was created two years ago, we wanted to ensure that the budget is used very intentionally,\u201d SGA chair Angela Chou told WSN. \u201cWe want to truly make a difference in students’ experiences.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Amelia Hernandez Gioia and Dharma Niles at news@nyunews.com.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This story Student gov\u2019t talks study away in wake of immigration crackdown<\/a> appeared first on Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Members of NYU\u2019s Student Government Assembly quizzed its prospective Global Student Council vice-chairs on how they plan to address concerns related to immigration and discussed a $70,000 proposal to renovate the commuter lounge in Lipton Hall at this month\u2019s SGA meeting.\u00a0 On Thursday, the three candidates for vice-chair of the GSC \u2014 the position responsible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}