By Elizabeth Redden. San Francisco State University, the University of Oregon and Western Kentucky University all announced within the last two weeks that they would close their Confucius Institutes after the Department of Defense declined their requests for waivers that would allow them to continue to operate both a Confucius Institute and a Defense Department-funded Chinese Language Flagship program. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A new law in Washington State requires universities to make accommodations for students celebrating religious holidays, including by rescheduling exams and permitting absences, Religion News Service reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. FBI director addresses efforts by China to steal academic research and technology. Higher ed groups say they're taking the issue seriously. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Brill has terminated its relationship with the Beijing-based Higher Education Press to distribute four China-focused journals after scholars reported an entire article was removed from one of the journals by Chinese censors. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The total number of international students studying in the U.S. at all levels declined by 2.7 percent from March 2018 to this March, according to quarterly data on student visa holders recently published by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Hundreds of Chinese students studying in the U.S. have faced delays in renewing their student visas after a policy change last year that shortened the duration of visas for Chinese graduate students in certain STEM fields from five years to one year, National Public Radio reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. An estimated 98,000 undocumented immigrant students known as Dreamers graduate from American high schools every year, according to a new analysis from the Migration Policy Institute, an immigration-focused think tank. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The Pima County Attorney’s Office has dropped charges against three University of Arizona students who protested the presence of U.S. border agents on campus and were charged by university police with interfering with the peaceful conduct of an educational institution, the Arizona Daily Star reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A Saudi Arabian man who planned to study at Western Michigan University was beheaded by the Saudi government on Tuesday, the Detroit Free Press reported, citing a report from the Saudi Press Agency. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Columbia University has rescheduled a panel event focused on the collapse of the rule of law in Turkey for this Friday, after having abruptly called off the event earlier this month. More...