UC Berkeley indefinitely suspends international student work authorizations

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/after-second-ice-threat-uc-berkeley-indefinitely-suspends-international-student-work-authorizations/article_0e9ae0c0-dd4d-4455-a25b-e8be7b47e350.html

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schaefer•16m ago

As someone that went to community college...

I'm pretty sure that the kids getting admitted to Berkeley actually are the best and the brightest. we should absolutely be welcoming them.

what are we even doing here?

dmitrygr•15m ago

> I'm pretty sure that the kids getting admitted to Berkeley actually are the best and the brightest.

Are they?

* UC-Berkeley math prof says she has to teach fractions to calculus students because standards have fallen so far. [1] [2] [3] [4]

* "I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can’t do middle school math" [1] [2] [3] [4]

* Bay Area high school grad rejected by 16 colleges hired by Google -- Zhong had a 3.97 unweighted and 4.42 weighted GPA, scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT's [5]

Seems like the best and the brightest are being rejected and suing over it, with receipts...

[1] https://nypost.com/2026/08/16/us-news/uc-berkeley-math-prof-...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-27/uc-math-...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizdoestone/2026/08/24/when-str...

[4] https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/08/15/uc-berkeley-sat-te...

[5] https://abc7news.com/post/stanley-zhong-college-rejected-tee...

DANmode•13m ago

“Some students are five to eight years behind in mathematics. Office hours that should be spent discussing integrals instead become lessons on fractions and basic algebra you would expect students to learn in middle school,” wrote Zvezdelina Stankova, of UC Berkeley, in an op-ed piece on Saturday for the San Francisco Standard.

Stankova — who rose through the mathematics world to earn a PhD from Harvard after being born in communist Bulgaria — described the admissions process as “less like careful evaluation and more like chance.”

tgma•13m ago

How is this related to being "welcome" or not? Of course they are very welcome to study. They are simply not encouraged to circumvent their program of study and go to work under the guise of "CPT."

stickfigure•8m ago

How prevalent is that kind of abuse? Quantify it. I am sketpical.

cheema33•14m ago

Cruelty is the point.

potentdream•11m ago

This is sad.

cheonc720•9m ago

> This is sad.

Why?

International students are still allowed to study in America.

They just need to return to India after graduation.

If they wish to immigrate to America, there are different visa pathways for that.

a2ff6eeb0•9m ago

Why are Americans so focused on helping other companies get ahead, rather than trying to brain drain their best and brightest?

auntienomen•8m ago

This comment misrepresents what the cancelled program does.

cheonc720•6m ago

> This comment misrepresents what the cancelled programs does.

It prevents international students from internships at companies while still enrolled in university.

Unless you have a different definition of the word “student visa”?

behnamoh•8m ago

Sad for the rest of us immigrants, not so much for the thousands who ruined it for everyone by bringing their whole families through H1B loop holes.

raincom•9m ago

So, this is not about OPT, but CPT. Many from various schools have abused CPT; so, they want to put to close that loophole. Some real ones get affected by this because of others' actions.

biotechbio•7m ago

Is this headline misleading? From reading the article, Berkeley is pausing authorizations for Course Credit CPT, which enables international students on visa’s to work in exchange for credits to complete their degree program. It doesn’t outright ban work experience if it is an “integral part of an established curriculum”.

The headline reads like Berkeley is suspending authorization of international students workers in general, but this actually seems like a relatively narrow restriction?

southbound•4m ago

When I did my CPT more than a decade ago in an age before the current admissions policies, I had to ensure that the place I was going to work at was a good fit for what I was studying, and there needed to be a written explanation of why it would directly benefit my studies. And it was no joke, I couldn't do an internship for a role not directly in my field of study.

Either Berkeley isn't doing things right, or this is a shakedown. International students are the biggest money-spinners for universities (to the detriment of everything else at this point, from what I hear), and ICE is going for the jugular.

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