By Ashley A. Smith. The proposal from a Chicago mayoral candidate to offer free community college by merging the system with K-12 is unique. But local and national education experts say it wouldn’t work. More...
2 mars 2019
2 mars 2019
Survey: Tepid Support for Free Speech Among Students
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. College students support free expression generally, but their appreciation wavers when they are questioned on more specific issues, according to the results of a new survey. More...
2 mars 2019
‘Voluntary’ Departures: the New Expulsion?
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Legal experts ponder whether public universities can ask students who are racist or who misbehave to leave. Has this become the new strategy to avoid kicking them out and facing First Amendment backlash. More...
2 mars 2019
McGill Lands Largest Gift Ever to Canadian University
By Elizabeth Redden. McGill University announced Wednesday that it had received gift of 200 million Canadian dollars (about $151 million) -- what it called “the single-largest gift in Canadian history” -- from the McCall MacBain Foundation to create a graduate-level scholarship program. More...
2 mars 2019
Saudi Students' Flights From U.S. Justice
By Elizabeth Redden. The Oregonian reports on a series of cases in which Saudi students at U.S. colleges were accused of crimes but disappeared before facing U.S. criminal charges. More...
2 mars 2019
Chinese Students Contact Embassy Over Talk
By Elizabeth Redden. Angered by a talk by a Uighur activist, a group of Chinese students at McMaster University, in Ontario, contacted Chinese government officials, The Washington Post reported. More...
2 mars 2019
International Enrollment Up 16% in Canada
By Elizabeth Redden. The number of international students in Canada increased by 16 percent from 2017 to 2018, following on a 20 percent increase the year before. More...
2 mars 2019
China Turned to Yale Scientist in Surveillance Campaign
By Elizabeth Redden. The New York Times reported that Chinese authorities turned to a Yale University geneticist to help them build a system of genetic surveillance targeting Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group that has been subject to an intense government campaign of oppression and surveillance. More...
2 mars 2019
Dutch University Drops Dutch Degree
By Elizabeth Redden. Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam is eliminating a bachelor’s degree program in Dutch due to low enrollments, the NL Times, an English-language newspaper covering the Netherlands, reported. More...
2 mars 2019
Settlement in Wrongful-Death Suit for Study Abroad Student
By Elizabeth Redden. The family of a University of Wisconsin Madison student who died on a study abroad program at John Cabot University, in Rome, has settled a wrongful death suit it filed against John Cabot. More...
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