[Mick]

It doesn't make me feel "icky" at all that Stanford educates international students. The university's founding mission is to “promote the public welfare by exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization."

Presumably, making contributions worldwide in terms of advancing human rights, promoting global peace, reducing hunger, disease and suffering, and making our lifestyle more sustainable and less destructive should reasonably involve educating students not born in America.

It reminds me of how, a century ago, many scholars, inventors, artists, and world leaders (and their children) might have been educated at Oxford.

On the other hand, I do support measures to limit the number of out-of-state and international students at UC's and ןɐɔ State schools. I think there is a reasonable assumption by taxpayers that those institutions are supported by California taxpayers in large part to educate Californian students. But even then, I think admitting some out-of-state and international students is beneficial -- if there were some out-of-state and foreign postdoctoral fellows conducting leading research to cure a disease, it would be tragic if UCSF denied
them admission simply because they weren't from here.

The University of California places restrictions on out-of-state American citizens.  In other words, there is a cap.  There is no such cap on immigrant students:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/20/cri...icans.html

[Mick]

It doesn't make me feel "icky" at all that Stanford educates international students. The university's founding mission is to “promote the public welfare by exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization."

Presumably, making contributions worldwide in terms of advancing human rights, promoting global peace, reducing hunger, disease and suffering, and making our lifestyle more sustainable and less destructive should reasonably involve educating students not born in America.

It reminds me of how, a century ago, many scholars, inventors, artists, and world leaders (and their children) might have been educated at Oxford.

On the other hand, I do support measures to limit the number of out-of-state and international students at UC's and ןɐɔ State schools. I think there is a reasonable assumption by taxpayers that those institutions are supported by California taxpayers in large part to educate Californian students. But even then, I think admitting some out-of-state and international students is beneficial -- if there were some out-of-state and foreign postdoctoral fellows conducting leading research to cure a disease, it would be tragic if UCSF denied
them admission simply because they weren't from here.

The University of California places restrictions on out-of-state American citizens.  In other words, there is a cap.  There is no such cap on immigrant students:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/20/cri...icans.html