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<\/a><\/p>\nAdil Najam<\/a>, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on the effect that President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration\u00a0will have on universities across the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n Najam was interviewed for a January 29, 2017 article in\u00a0Metro<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/em>entitled “Colleges Fear Long-Term Effects of Trump’s Immigration Orders.<\/a>“<\/span><\/p>\n From the text of the article:<\/p>\n \u201cOur intellectual enterprise has been built on the basic notion of this national ethos, this American idea of openness,\u201d said Adil Najam, dean of Boston University\u2019s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the best and brightest start seeing that this is not a place that is welcoming, that on a whim a whole country will be written off, then they start thinking of alternatives.\u201d<\/p>\n Out of 350 Americans to have received a Nobel prize in research, more than 100 have been immigrants, Adil Najam of Boston University said. In addition to being a dean, Najam, who is Muslim and from Pakistan, is also a professor of international relations and earth and environment. He said he has \u201cno doubt\u201d that the refugee ban represents the first step for an administration he sees as increasingly hostile to certain kinds of immigrants.<\/p>\n \u201cOur students are better off because they can get the best professors from around the world \u2026 our conferences are better because the best research scholars come from all over,\u201d he said. \u201cI literally cannot visualize what U.S. higher education and research would be if, indeed, immigrants were taken away.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You can read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Adil Najam<\/a>\u00a0is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School and is the former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan.\u00a0<\/span>Learn more about him here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dean Adil Najam discusses the effect that President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration will have on universities across the United States<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9860,1720,8586,9545,10005,10004,8859,10003],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26760,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26706\/revisions\/26760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}