By Elizabeth Redden. Groups of visiting Chinese students and scholars have formed Chinese Communist Party cells at U.S. universities in what seems to be part of a broader strategy by the party to increase ideological monitoring and control, Foreign Policy reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A Minneapolis man was acquitted of murder but convicted of aggravated battery in the October 2016 death of a Saudi Arabian student at the University of Wisconsin Stout, the Associated Press reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A Swedish university was ordered by the country’s Supreme Court to refund tuition fees to an American student who dropped a program due to low-quality teaching, The Local reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A pro-government magazine in Hungary published a list of more than 200 people – including academics, journalists and representatives of nongovernmental organizations -- who it said were likely among what Prime Minister Victor Orbán has described as a group of “mercenaries” allegedly hired by the billionaire philanthropist George Soros to overthrow the government, The Washington Post reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A congressional hearing Wednesday focused on the vulnerability of U.S. academic institutions to foreign espionage activities and intellectual property theft. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The chairman of the U.S. Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies said the South Korean government withdrew funding from the institute after it rejected what he described as “utterly inappropriate meddling” in the institute’s academic affairs, the Associated Press reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The U.S. Department of State on Monday published an inaugural list of top producers of Gilman scholars. The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Award supports study abroad for undergraduates with financial need. The scholarship is open to two- and four-year college students who are Pell Grant recipients. More...