By Elizabeth Redden. An economics professor at China’s Guizhou University said he has been suspended and his undergraduate classes cancelled, Radio Free Asia reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The Chinese Communist Party is seeking to exert more control over foreign universities, raising concerns that guarantees of academic freedom will not be honored, the Financial Times reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The number of newly enrolled international students in the U.S. grew by 104 percent between 2008 and 2016, far surpassing the overall enrollment growth rate of 3.4 percent, a new analysis by Pew Research found. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Open Doors survey shows declines in new international students starting in fall 2016, after years of growth. This fall universities report an average 7 percent decline in new international students. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Declines are greatest in central-south region that includes Texas. Only New England sees increase. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. President Trump has intervened in the case of three University of California, Los Angeles, basketball players arrested in China for allegedly shoplifting sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store, personally asking President Xi Jinping to help resolve their cases, The Washington Post reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. As the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies meets this week for its annual convention in Chicago, organizers estimate that they’re missing about 50 Russian scholars who were unable to get visas in time to participate. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Experts expect new regulations on travel to Cuba published in the Federal Register to have limited effect on educational travel to the nation. The regulations restrict Americans from patronizing certain hotels and businesses deemed as controlled by the Cuban military, intelligence and security services and require that so-called “people-to-people” educational travel be conducted under the auspices of a U.S.-based tour group. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The U.S. suspended all non-immigrant visa processing -- a category that includes visas for international students and visiting scholars -- in Turkey last month over concerns about the arrest of a diplomatic employee, prompting Turkey to suspend visa processing for American citizens in a tit-for-tat action. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The faculty of New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute have voted to suspend the institute’s relationship with the university’s campus in Abu Dhabi due to their “dismay” over the denial of visas to two NYU professors who planned to teach there, according to a letter signed by 17 faculty that one of the signatories posted on social media. More...