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9 octobre 2017

Caribbean Universities in Crisis

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Senior university leaders in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and elsewhere in the Caribbean discuss the damage caused by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which destroyed buildings and displaced students. More...

9 octobre 2017

Travel Ban 3.0

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Higher education groups on Monday began to grapple with what new restrictions on travel to the U.S. from eight countries imposed Sunday night by the Trump administration will mean for international student and scholar exchange. More...

9 octobre 2017

Threats to Universities Worldwide

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. The new edition of Scholars at Risk’s annual “Free to Think” report analyzes more than 250 reported attacks on higher education institutions, their students or their employees in 35 countries in the past year. More...

9 octobre 2017

Trump Issues New Travel Restrictions

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. The new restrictions limit travel for nationals of five of the six countries included in the expired ban -- Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen -- as well as three new ones: Chad, North Korea and Venezuela. Restrictions on Sudan have been limited. More...

9 octobre 2017

NYU Professor Says He Can't Teach at Abu Dhabi Campus

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. An associate professor of journalism at New York University said United Arab Emirate officials denied him the requisite security clearance he needed to teach at NYU's campus in Abu Dhabi this fall for reasons that he believes are related to his religion. More...

9 octobre 2017

Study Abroad in Cuba Continues, Despite Warning

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Several study abroad providers said they planned to continue their programming in Cuba after the U.S. Department of State issued a warning on Friday advising American citizens against travel to the country and ordered the departure of nonemergency diplomatic staff. More...

9 octobre 2017

Survey: Study Abroad as Tool to Land Jobs

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. More than half (53.3 percent) of alumni of study abroad programs say they believe their study abroad experience contributed to them receiving a job offer, according to a survey on the relationship between study abroad and career outcomes published today by the Institute of International Education. More...

9 octobre 2017

Update on Central European Bid to Stay in Budapest

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Central European University provided an update Tuesday on the status of negotiations between the Hungarian and New York State governments over an agreement that would allow the institution, which is chartered in New York but does not have a campus there, to continue to operate in Budapest. More...

9 octobre 2017

A ‘Global Innovation Exchange’

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Seeking to “invert the model” of U.S. universities opening campuses abroad, the University of Washington and China’s Tsinghua University will open degree-granting academic center near Seattle. More...

9 octobre 2017

Business Programs See Drops in Non-U.S. Applicants

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. The majority of graduate business programs in the U.S. reported declines in international applications this year compared to last year, even as the majority of programs in Canada and Europe reported increases, according to a survey of 965 graduate business programs in 45 countries conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council, which owns and administers the GMAT entrance test. More...

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