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9 octobre 2017

Iran Jails Princeton Ph.D. Student as Spy

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. A Chinese-American graduate student enrolled at Princeton University has reportedly been sentenced by an Iranian court to 10 years in prison for espionage, The Washington Post reported, citing the Iranian judiciary’s official news agency, Mizan. More...

9 octobre 2017

Student Reportedly Faces Execution in Saudi Arabia

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. A student who was admitted to Western Michigan University is possibly facing imminent execution in Saudi Arabia for an offense related to attending a protest, according to the human rights group Reprieve and the American Federation of Teachers. More...

9 octobre 2017

Deal Keeps Open McDaniel's Hungary Campus

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. The Maryland state and Hungarian governments signed an agreement Friday that will allow McDaniel College’s campus in Budapest to stay open after the April passage of a new Hungarian law on foreign branch campuses, The Baltimore Sun reported. Passage of the law has been widely seen as an attack by Hungary’s right-wing government on Central European University, an American-accredited institution that was founded by financier George Soros. More...

9 octobre 2017

Reaching Refugees

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. The university, which is known for its online programs and its competency-based degrees, says the $10 million in funding will allow it to begin programming for refugees at four additional sites, including in Kenya, Lebanon and two additional locations to be determined. More...

9 octobre 2017

Questions Raised on Foreign Student Proposal

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Twelve higher education associations this week registered “serious concern” about a proposal under consideration at the Department of Homeland Security that would require international students to reapply annually for permission to stay in the U.S. More...

9 octobre 2017

What Is a Wounded Professor Owed?

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. A professor injured in last August’s attack on the American University of Afghanistan is seeking workers’ compensation benefits for his injuries. More...

9 octobre 2017

North Korea Travel Ban Would Hurt University

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. The State Department said Friday it would ban U.S. citizens from traveling to North Korea due to what a spokeswoman described as “mounting concerns over the serious risk of arrest and long-term detention,” the Los Angeles Times reported. More...

9 octobre 2017

Racist Posters Target Chinese Students

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Racist posters aimed at Chinese students were posted at two universities in Melbourne, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and The New York Times reported. The fliers, written in simplified Chinese characters and found on the first day of the semester, said that Chinese people were prohibited from entering and that those who did could be prosecuted or deported. More...

9 octobre 2017

Ready to Go Expat?

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Britain, Canada, France and Germany all launch funding programs to recruit foreign researchers. Will they succeed in capitalizing on perceptions of the U.S. as a less attractive place for research. More...

9 octobre 2017

Trump Acts to Allow Entry of Afghan Robotics Team

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. An all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan whose members had been denied visas to travel to the U.S. for a competition will be able to come after President Trump intervened on their behalf, Politico reported. More...

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