Inside Higher Ed: Another Professor Denied Entry
With some regularity in recent years, Bush administration officials have given speeches pledging their commitment to international education and to a smooth visa system for foreign scholars seeking to come to American universities.
There’s just one problem. Cases continue to materialize in which scholars are kept out, leaving them and their American hosts frustrated and angry. There’s the Canadian physicist who couldn’t cross the border to attend a conference. A musicologist at Mills College has been unable to return there after she was turned away at the airport. It took two years (and a lawsuit) for the University of Nebraska at Lincoln to win a visa for one of its new faculty members. Add to those and a number of other cases the situation facing Marixa Lasso, an assistant professor of Latin American history at Case Western Reserve University.
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