Issue: Digest No. 14 – Spring 2025

Welcome to the Spring 2025 issue of The Council of Independent Colleges’ Digest of Recent Research. This issue represents the second under the new editorial leadership team of Bethany L. Miller, Associate Provost & Chief Data Officer at Macalester College, and Philip T. Dunwoody, Social Sciences Division Head and Professor of Psychology at Juniata College. Under this new editorial team, issues have a clear theme designed to support you in addressing contemporary campus challenges. The focus of this issue is immigration policy, international enrollment and scholarship, and the impact on Higher Education:

Digest No. 14 – Spring 2025

Resource: Higher Education Immigration Portal

This resource is an online platform regarding DACA and undocumented refugee and immigrant and international students.

Resource: Supporting Undocumented Students

This webinar focused on practical steps higher education institutions can take with and for undocumented students.

Article: International Student Trends

This article highlights interesting international student trends over time.

Article: U. S. Visa and Immigration Policy Challenges

This article explores how recent visa and immigration policies have shaped research with students and scholars.

Article: Colleges and Immigration

This article discusses the recent changes to practices that treat campuses as sensitive areas that were previously off limits to Homeland Security Officials.

Article: Undocumented Students in Higher Education

This article summarizes relevant statistics so that colleges and universities can better understand their undocumented students.

About the Digest

The Digest of Recent Research highlights timely research and practical resources with a focus on topics of relevance to presidents and other leaders of independent colleges and universities. Under the co-editorship of Bethany L. Miller, associate provost and chief data officer at Macalester College (MN); and Philip T. Dunwoody, social sciences division head and professor of psychology at Juniata College (PA), Digest issues have a clear theme designed to support members in addressing contemporary challenges. John M. Braxton, professor of higher education at Vanderbilt University, served as editor for the first three issues, and Matthew J. Mayhew, William Ray and Marie Adamson Flesher Professor of Educational Administration at Ohio State University served as editor from June 2018 through March 2024. The Council of Independent Colleges is grateful to the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations for their support of this series.

CIC is grateful to the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations for their support of the Digest of Recent Research.