Newfoundland university waives fee for students hit by Trump travel ban
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A Newfoundland university says the response has been overwhelming after it waived application fees for students from the seven predominantly Muslim countries targeted by a temporary U.S. immigration ban.
“Phone calls and emails are just flooding the office,” Noreen Golfman, provost and vice-president of academics at Memorial University of Newfoundland, said Tuesday in an interview from St. John’s.
“One of our senior staff is working 24-7. I’m afraid he’s going to burn out.”
Golfman confirmed Tuesday that the school has received double the number of inquiries it usually gets from students in the United States since Donald Trump was elected president Nov. 8 — and she said there was another spike after he announced the ban on Jan. 27.