Last Thursday, SBU staff and students protested the increasing ICE raids across the country and demanded SBU establish protections for international and immigrant students, and designate the university as a sanctuary campus.
Anuva Wardah, a junior at Stony Brook University (SBU), submitted her resume, transcript and three references to the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Internship program. She was offered the two-year position in October and was set to spend her summer in Washington, D.C. In accordance with President Trump’s hiring freeze, the offer was rescinded in March.
The Office of the Provost confirmed Monday that 11 international students’ immigration statuses were reinstated after the federal government terminated them.
The Provost told faculty organizers they had to reschedule a planned screening of the Palestinian documentary “No Other Land” in Wang Theatre because it fell on the same day as Yom HaShoah, they said.
SBU students took to the fountain on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s revocation of 11 international students’ visas. Their demands to the University include financial support for international students, filing a restraining order against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and more.
The Office of the Provost confirmed that the federal government terminated 11 international students’ visas at Stony Brook University in an email sent on Thursday. SBU did not specify why their visas were revoked, but the announcement comes amid a wave of F-1 visa revocations nationwide.
Stony Brook University’s (SBU) chapter of Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGA) is working to get Plan B, an emergency contraceptive (EC), into vending machines around campus. They have already made a big first step in their mission to provide access to EC — distributing free packages of it in person at their general body meetings and tabling events.
On Tuesday, March 26, a pro-Palestine demonstration led by organizers of the Stony Brook University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine ended with the arrest of nine protesters in Stony Brook University’s Administration Building.