Following a lawsuit filed by MIT and Harvard University, the federal government this week rescinded a policy that would have prevented foreign students from studying in the U.S. this fall if classes were taught remotely. “This misguided policy was one of many signals that the administration wants foreign students to stay away — an attitude that reflects a stark misreading of our national interest,” MIT President L. Rafael Reif wrote in a New York Times op-ed. “America gains immense creative advantage by educating top domestic students alongside top international students. By challenging, inspiring, and stretching one another, they make one another better.”