Massachusetts’s schools have recruited higher proportions of international students than colleges and universities almost anywhere else because of a demographic decline and the comparatively high cost of higher education here. But even before the second Trump administration, there were signs the bottom was falling out.
Jon Marcus
Jon Marcus is senior higher education reporter at The Hechinger Report. He also writes for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and other magazines, newspapers, and websites, and is cohost of the NPR podcast College Uncovered. Marcus holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bates College and attended Oxford University. He teaches journalism at Boston College and Northeastern University.