<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues, <div><br></div><div>Thank you for keeping this important discussion going and for supporting our international students at a worst time who are forced to choose between possible risky exposure or deportation. As we all know, public health crises are often political. COVID-19 clearly shows the socio-economic and geo-political dimensions of pandemics. </div><div><br></div><div>One of my colleagues at NC State shared a national petition from faculty at four-year colleges titled "Open Letter Against the Student Ban," which has gathered over ten thousand signatures. If you want to take a look, here is the url: </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnWNY7Qk-zW4mZKupEyCgswrNdtU8FX6QDWc_ZCmBI5OjqTA/viewform?fbclid=IwAR1MjaFEfTEpCXiZM6NkxjQHl9WmInsQcffyLKxeUu7rXOCD4r49b11l8Hk&edit_requested=true&usp=embed_facebook" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnWNY7Qk-zW4mZKupEyCgswrNdtU8FX6QDWc_ZCmBI5OjqTA/viewform?fbclid=IwAR1MjaFEfTEpCXiZM6NkxjQHl9WmInsQcffyLKxeUu7rXOCD4r49b11l8Hk&edit_requested=true&usp=embed_facebook</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you all for your support for our international students and best wishes.</div><div><br></div><div>Huiling </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:15 PM Long, Thomas <<a href="mailto:thomas.l.long@uconn.edu">thomas.l.long@uconn.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:57 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:gjsavag@ilstu.edu" target="_blank">Savage, Gerald</a>; <a href="mailto:sam.dragga@ttu.edu" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Jerry: as a former international student, I can't confirm whether obfuscation is prized at DHS but can confirm that DHS departments are exceptional at obfuscation! Options for non-citizens have also narrowed considerably in the last
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sam: thank you for sharing this memo. It's worth analysis as an instance of executive branch communication and I appreciate the invitation to read it as such.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I also read it as a prompt for academics and program administrators to speak and act against the temporary final rule itself. Could this be a time for ATTW to coordinate with other professional organizations like
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<p class="MsoNormal">All: The procedures in the memo force international students to choose between COVID-19 exposure and the risk of deportation. Encouraging school transfers or travel out of the country mid-pandemic means endangering students, instructors,
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please engage, not merely to protect departmental budgets or labor forces, but because it is unethical to sacrifice people as this policy requires and there's at least a 30-year tradition in technical communication scholarship that points
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you to each of you who has spent the last four months pivoting, adapting, and trying to preserve educational options for your students. They need your continued advocacy now. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards to all despite the relentless nonsense of this era,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 7, 2020 2:52 PM<br>
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<p>If you are looking for a striking example of technical writing with a direct impact on your classrooms, consider the memo released yesterday by the US Department of Homeland Security (<a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ice.gov%2Fdoclib%2Fsevis%2Fpdf%2Fbcm2007-01.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cthomas.l.long%40uconn.edu%7Cc6710de905db4cf53d1408d822d9ec2d%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C637297666666356686&sdata=Cxdz5a65tLl20axo%2FTWzEHzUM64ePYC94W%2F6QckJilM%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/bcm2007-01.pdf</a>).
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<p>The memo explains to college administrators that their international (nonimmigrant) students must<b><i>
</i></b>take either onsite courses or a mix of onsite and online courses in the Fall 2020 semester to remain in the United States.</p>
<p>In addition to raising awareness of the extraordinary conditions for international students, the memo offers the opportunity to discuss clarity in writing (e.g., note the 33-word opening sentence in the 116-word opening paragraph but also the headings and
numbered or bulleted lists). </p>
<p>And given the experience of the Spring 2020 semester and the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the memo raises ethical questions about putting the following key piece of information in a 63-word sentence in the middle of a 151-word paragraph on page 2 of a 3-page
memo [italics mine]: </p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><i>If a school changes its operational stance mid-semester, and as a result a nonimmigrant student switches to only online classes,</i> or a nonimmigrant student changes their course selections, and as a result, ends up taking an
entirely online course load, schools are reminded that nonimmigrant students within the United States are not permitted to take a full course of study through online classes.</p>
<p>Sam</p>
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