By Elizabeth Redden. The Education Department wrote to the Duke-University of North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies in September threatening future funding through the Title VI program. The department raised a number of concerns about the program, including about what the department described as a “lack of balance” in that it allegedly emphasized “positive aspects of Islam” while failing to emphasize positive aspects of other religions of the region. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Critics question whether a program at American University that celebrates Russian culture paints too rosy a view of Russia, The New York Times reported. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. A University of Miami professor says she had to leave Bolivia for her safety after newspapers published articles falsely claiming she was organizing protests and acting as a U.S. agent. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The American Council on Education and 29 other higher education organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education raising concerns about a new proposed form for collecting information about gifts and contracts from foreign sources. Disclosure of foreign gifts and contracts valued at $250,000 or more is required under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, and the department published notice in September of a new proposed form to collect information to this effect. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The number of scholarly articles published by American academics in science and engineering fields would have declined by 2.03 percent between 2014 and 2018 without collaboration from co-authors from China, according to a new article published in the journal Higher Education. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Charles University, in Prague, fired several faculty members over secret Chinese government payments, the Financial Times reported. The faculty were fired for allegedly setting up a private company that was paid by the Chinese Embassy for conferences that were co-organized by a university center. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Court considers whether the Trump administration lawfully ended a program that provides deportation relief and work authorization to hundreds of thousands of undocumented young people, including many college students. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. The Afghan government and the Taliban have agreed on a prisoner exchange that would free two professors at the American University of Afghanistan who were kidnapped in 2016, The New York Times reported. Under the terms of the deal, the two AUAF professors, Kevin C. King, an American, and Timothy J. Weeks, an Australian, will be released in exchange for the release of three senior Taliban members. Afghan and Taliban officials said the transfer is imminent. More...