This plan is naïve, unjust, and misguided. To manage numbers of international students, quota are a proper tool; language barriers are foolish and unnecessary

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Universities in Tilburg, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Leiden would force their psychology departments to teach exclusively in Dutch - against their will. This measure is taken to restrict the inflow of international students into The Netherlands.

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With this superb set of speakers, IMPS 2025 promises to become a conference full of highlights and intellectual stimulation, and we hope to see many of you on the beautiful campus of UMN, located on the banks of the Mississippi in the vibrant city of Minneapolis!

In addition Dissertation Award winner Mark Himmelstein (psychology.gatech.edu/people/mark-...), Early Career Award winner Maria Bolsinova (www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/m-a-bo...), and Lifetime Achievement Award winner Shizuhiko Nishisato.

IMPS 2025 features presentations by Eran Tal www.mcgill.ca/philosophy/e...) Jessica Flake (psych.ubc.ca/profile/jess...), Hongyun Liu (aic-fe.bnu.edu.cn/en/research/...), Aleksandar Tomašević (atomasevic.com), Matthew Madison (matthewmadison.com), and Nidhi Kohli (edpsych.umn.edu/nidhi-kohli).

Steve Marron and Carolyn Anderson will honor us with keynotes. Steve Marron is a leading expert on modeling high-dimensional data marron.web.unc.edu. Carolyn Anderson is one of the earlier pioneers in network modeling: psychology.illinois.edu/directory/pr....

IMPS has developed into a bristling multidisciplinary conference. Next to traditional psychometric models, it features AI, philosophy of science, high dimensional data analysis, network psychometrics, dynamical systems, time series analysis, and conceptual issues in measurement.

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Thanks to the program committee for its work on this program: Nidhi Kohli, Sy-Miin Chow, Mark Wilson, Silvia Bianconcini, Minjeong Jeon, Ed Merkle, Laura Bringmann, Peter Halpin, David Torres Irribarra, Marie Wiberg, Gyeongcheol Cho, Hudson Golino, Katrijn van Deun, Ji Hoon Ryoo, Mijke Rhemtulla

(Credits to Jichuan Wu for the graphic)

With these great speakers, IMPS 2025 will be full of highlights and intellectual stimulation, and we hope to see many of you on the beautiful campus of UMN, located on the banks of the Mississippi in the vibrant city of Minneapolis! Register for IMPS at imps2025.exordo.com

Third, Wenchao Ma will teach a workshop on Cognitive Diagnosis Models in R. edpsych.umn.edu/people/quant...

Second, Patricia Martinkova will teach a workshop on the dissemination of psychometric modeling results using Shiny: cs.cas.cz/martinkova/