California university professor warns H-1B freeze will harm higher education, shares list of global scholars from Texas university

A California university professor has warned that a freeze on new H-1B visa petitions could weaken higher education in Texas and across the US, arguing that international recruitment has been central to the success of leading universities. In a widely shared post, Jelani Nelson, a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said restricting access to global talent would damage research quality and long-term academic competitiveness.

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