A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
Who wants to go to a country with a secret thuggish police and concentration camps.
How to build a kleptocracy - for dummies.
The brand new kindergarten special needs teacher at my daughter's elementary school just quit right before school started. They were already down something like 3 kindergarten special needs teachers.
It’s the same thing with a lot of « real [insert country here] » jobs.
People running the U.S. seem unable to understand that education is also your country's largest economic export.
It’s okay though because they aren’t real American jobs like coal miners who eat red meat and pump red blood through their hearts pump pump pump. Just woke communist liberal squishes teaching at university who deserve to starve.
Coal Mining is one of those things yuppie pricks kinda fetishize. Nothing they'd ever actually do, but kinda a hard visably dangerous job they can call everyone else a pussy for not doing. Except they are a pencil pusher themselves
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Loss of 60,000 academic jobs means we loose jobs where people don't get black lung disease !!
There is an almost Afghanistan Taliban vibe developing in American government today. Not as blatant? It's of growing concern. The reclining Buddha statues. That demolision triggered anti Taliban stories. Mount Rushmore may face something similar. At what point will democracy need rescue & who by?
Yes but they are not the right jobs.
It must be hard for the Federal Reserve to maximise employment when there are people who add exceptions. Employment is a good thing, unless it’s a Higher Ed job or a USAID job, or an environment related job, or any public service job, etc. How about we just agree that a good job is good.
There are as many coal miners in the entire country as there are employees at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Not across the entire nationwide Mayo network of hospitals and clinics. Just in one city of 123,000.
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Foreign students are often wealthy because living and going to school here ain't cheap. An acquaintance recently had a garage sale for a foreign student who decided to leave the US after the Spring semester. Everything they left behind was high end. That economic boost is gone now--plus brain drain.
But remember, the exposure of Republican students to differing views in an academic setting is tantamount to molestation. hat tip Elton Beard
Before you criticize, it’s important to remember how common black lung is in the academic world. Were these jobs worth saving?
Well, until we put all the coal-fired power plants back online and shove all those unemployed academics into the mines.
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Not fun for people working in academia.
Yes, but coal mining jobs are special, or some bullshit like that.
A thought: Cities & college towns tend to vote blue. So no one is recruiting their votes - it's mostly a given.
Votes from rural areas literally count more thanks to the Electoral College.
So even aside from all the masculine coded/machismo stuff, politicians care less about academia.
Theye already firing staff (not faculty so much, at leat not tenured). Source: me, fired staff.
So what you’re saying is that academia workers should go mine coal, instead
Plan is to send academics to the countryside to disassemble windmills and mine coal when they’re not working on backyard steel production and collective farming for capitalism
Ah but you see coal miners are Real Americans From the Heartland who we should all put first in every decision, while academics are the Coastal Liberal Elite who are so woke they should be stripped of citizenship. So it's all good!
Frankly, I can't see why any foreign student would want to come here.
my partner literally works in student immigration at a major university and she’s become the breadwinner since i lost my job so we’re cooked.
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Academia is girly and gay, coal mining is manly and looks good on memes. That's really all there is to it.
When I was running EducationUSA programs (the State Department’s major promotional arm for international students) overseas, the number was topping out at over 600K—any idea what it is now?
academia has so many “part” time jobs now and very few few tenure positions it’s going to get much worse
Leading to: brain drain. Making America Dumber Again.
College towns and professors out of work. Support people. Food service. Etc
Yes, but the people talking in diners!
Which in turn will result in additional brain drain as Americans in academia emigrate and accept positions abroad.
Yes but consider that Republicans like coal mining jobs because they kill the planet and the coal miners and hate academic jobs because they pay nerds to think
They are the liberal bourgeoisie though so it’s not remotely the same.
Coal miners losing their jobs makes for far better headlines.
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
Funny how the people doing actual work go but not shit like administration. Guess uni president needs his $1.5mil salary.
During the Brexit campaign, there was much talk about the UK fishing industry. The UK fishing industry contributes less to the economy than Games Workshop (you know, plastic figures, Warhammer).
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IIRC, the business community around Broadway in NYC is actually larger than this depending on how you measure it LOL
If that number upsets you, and I think it should, also remember that (coincidentally) 60,000 the number of people in Gaza killed by Israel.
There's a small Catholic college near me that's absolutely cooked if it loses international students. And there must be hundreds of schools like it. How long will it take for the flies to start dropping?
I still say we should be seeing 100% loss of international students.....this also ignores the new rules on student loans, and how many local students won't be able to go to college
Yeah, but we aren’t real Americans.
Higher education is a fantastic export earner, ie it brings in foreign money. If Trump's so concerned about trade balances, someone should explain this to him. This is "cutting off your nose to spite your face" stuff.
