By Stefanie Botelho. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler last week announced the outlines of a proposal to protect network neutrality that, if approved, will have a significant impact on higher education institutions. The plan would regulate high-speed Internet service as a public utility under Title II of the Communications Act, the section of the law that regulates telecommunications and other services, instead of an information service. More...
China Tells Schools to Suppress Western Ideas, With One Big Exception
By Dan Levin. They are out there, hiding in library stacks, whispering in lecture halls, armed with dangerous textbooks and subversive pop quizzes: foreign enemies plotting a stealthy academic invasion of Chinese universities. More...