Indianas most prestigious private university is actively seeking a foreign national to teach English under a temporary work visa.
The University of Notre Dame has posted a notice for one H-1B or E-3 visa holder to serve from August 2026 through August 2029, according to WND. The position, classified by the Department of Labor (DOL) under English Language and Literature Teachers, carries a listed salary of $87,457, only slightly above the DOLs $87,090 mean annual wage for that category.
A spokesperson for Notre Dame declined to comment on the record about the hiring decision. The university is widely regarded as Indianas top-rated private institution of higher education.
The H-1B program has long been used by corporations and universities to import workers en masse into highly sought-after, specialized fields, often to the detriment of American professionals. E-3 visas function in a similar way but are reserved exclusively for Australian nationals.
President Donald Trumps administration has moved to rein in the H-1B system through a series of executive reforms. The U.S. government announced new obligations on employers in September for every H-1B worker they sponsor and shifted in December from a random lottery to skills-based evaluations.
A separate DOL rule would also raise the required minimum salaries for H-1B workers to better align with the wages paid to U.S. workers who are similarly employed in the occupation and area of intended employment. These changes reflect a broader effort to ensure that visa programs do not become a backdoor mechanism for undercutting American wages.
The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers into the United States to perform additive, high-skilled functions, but it has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor, Trump said. The large-scale replacement of American workers through systemic abuse of the program has undermined both our economic and national security.
The Trump administration still approved about 97% of H-1B applications in 2025 as the tighter restrictions did not take effect until late in the year, according to WND. For critics of expansive immigration and for advocates of American workers, Notre Dames decision to recruit an immigrant English instructor underscores why these reforms remain a central issue in the national debate.
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