By Elizabeth Redden. Human Rights Watch on Thursday released a 12-point code of conduct to help colleges counter Chinese government efforts to undermine academic freedom abroad. The proposed code of conduct is based on interviews with more than 100 academics, graduate students and administrators at universities in Australia, Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Opponents of Rider University’s planned sale of Westminster Choir College to a Chinese education company say the newly released purchase agreement undermines Rider’s public promises that the company will continue to operate the Princeton, N.J.-based choir college for at least 10 years after the sale. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Panelists at Asian studies conference discuss the dynamics that accompany large influxes of Chinese students abroad. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Some have suggested moving academic conferences to Canada to get around U.S. visa policies that, among other things, bar individuals from a group of Muslim-majority countries from entering the country. But when it comes to visa problems, holding an academic conference in Canada isn’t a panacea. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Chinese officials pressured a human rights institute affiliated with Concordia University, in Montreal, to cancel a talk involving a Uighur activist, according to an organizer of the event, Canada Radio International reported. The event proceeded as scheduled despite the pressure. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The Board of Directors of the Association for Asian Studies on Thursday published a statement decrying the detention of at least 800,000 Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in political “re-education” centers in the Xinjiang region of northwest China. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The New Jersey attorney general's office has weighed in on Rider University’s proposed sale of Westminster Choir College to a Chinese education company, arguing in a court filing that any proceeds from the sale must be used for the purposes of the 1935 charitable gift granting the land for the campus, absent a cy pres proceeding in which Rider obtains court permission to deviate from those purposes. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Vote by United Methodist Church body to strengthen prohibitions on gay clergy and same-sex marriages disappoints Methodist higher education institutions and raises difficult questions. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A former student at Louisville’s Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has accused a former professor of grooming and sexually abusing her for more than a decade, the Courier-Journal reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Staff at a Virginia regulator recommend revoking certificate to operate small college catering to international students after an audit uncovered concerns about academic quality. More...