By Colleen Flaherty. Michael Bérubé publishes follow-up to his 1996 book about his son with Down syndrome. Jamie’s now a working adult who’s offered his dad, who has become a leading figure in disability studies, a whole new education. Read more...
The Choice to Study in Canada
By Elizabeth Redden. The majority of American students who study in Canada, particularly those at the undergraduate level, do so primarily because of the relatively lower tuition fees of Canadian universities, according to a new report from Universities Canada based on eight focus groups of Americans studying over the northern border. Read more...
A Passport in the Sock Drawer
By Elizabeth Redden. At Generation Study Abroad summit, panelists discuss how to get a more diverse group of students abroad, including students enrolled at minority-serving institutions. Read more...
U.S. Issues Final Guidance on Pathway Programs
By Elizabeth Redden. The Department of Homeland Security’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program published new final policy guidance Friday on pathway programs, defined as programs that include a mix of remedial English language course work and credit-bearing classes for international students who are unable to meet English proficiency requirements for regular admission. Read more...
Indian University's Bumpy Entry Into the U.S.
By Elizabeth Redden. Under scrutiny from regulators in Massachusetts, where it hoped to acquire a campus, Amity University focuses its plans for U.S. expansion on just-purchased campus on Long Island. Read more...
Poland Probes Princeton Professor's Holocaust Claims
By Elizabeth Redden. Poland’s right-wing government has extended an investigation into a Princeton University-based Holocaust scholar who made the controversial claim that Poles killed more Jews than Germans during World War II, the Associated Press reported. Read more...
ACT Moves Testing in South Korea to Single Site
By Elizabeth Redden. ACT is closing all of its 32 existing test centers in South Korea for the remainder of the academic year and shifting all testing in the country to a single site to be monitored directly by ACT staff from the U.S. in response to what the nonprofit college entrance test provider described as “repeated test material breaches” in the country. Read more...
'Ideas Are Not Crimes'
By Elizabeth Redden. Report from Scholars at Risk analyzes more than 150 instances of attacks on higher education, including campus attacks, targeted killings, prosecutions and violence against student protestors. Read more...
Trump Win Opens Questions for Colleges’ Books
By Rick Seltzer. Worries about stock market turmoil subsided in the two days since Donald Trump unexpectedly won the presidential election, but many questions still remain about what Tuesday’s results mean for college and university finances. Read more...
New Report on Remediation in Community Colleges
By Ashley A. Smith. A new report from the Public Policy Institute of California finds that the majority of students entering the state's community colleges are placed in remedial courses and most of them never move on to earn a degree, certificate or transfer. Read more...