With a drop in international students, campuses are seeing class waitlists, course cuts and fewer researchers

Students in sweatshirts and carying backpacks huddle under umbrellas as they walk near trees on a dark, rainy day.

As they buckle down for a new fall term, post-secondary students, faculty, administrators and sector experts are worried, as institutions struggle with plummeting enrolment of students from abroad, financial and other ramifications of federal changes to stem these students and, in several regions, status quo on domestic tuition.