Middle East Tensions, U.S. Classrooms
By Elizabeth Redden. At the Middle East Studies Association’s annual meeting, several panels focused on the tensions scholars of the region are navigating in the classroom in these intensely polarized times, with perhaps few issues as contentious as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. More...
Rankings Math Questioned
By Elizabeth Redden. A Hong Kong university is accused of underreporting enrollment numbers to boost its faculty-student ratio and ranking. The university says it is commissioning an independent audit but emphasizes that there are differences in data definitions. More...
Australian Publisher Pulls Back Plans for China Book
By Elizabeth Redden. An Australian publisher has backed away from plans to publish a book about the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on Australian politics and academe due to fear of potential legal action, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. More...
International Enrollments Increase in Canada
By Elizabeth Redden. International student enrollment increased by 10.7 percent at Canadian universities this fall compared to last fall, Universities Canada said. The biggest increase was in British Columbia, where international enrollments increased 15.6 percent. More...
Chinese Professor Says He Was Suspended From Teaching
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...
China Exerts More Control Over Foreign Universities
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...
International Students and Enrollment Growth
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...
New International Enrollments Decline
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...
An End to Years of Growth for New International Enrollments
By Elizabeth Redden. Declines are greatest in central-south region that includes Texas. Only New England sees increase. More...
Trump Intervenes on Behalf of UCLA Athletes
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...
