By John Elmes for Times Higher Education. French minister seeks to rebuild ties between academics and politicians -- and sees new law on release of data as part of the solution. Read more...
Chinese Students vs. Dalai Lama
By Elizabeth Redden. The choice of the Dalai Lama as this year’s commencement speaker at the University of California, San Diego, has outraged some of UCSD’s Chinese students. Read more...
College Owner Pleads Guilty to Immigration Fraud
By Elizabeth Redden. The owner of a chain of four Los Angeles-area colleges accused of running a “pay-to-stay” scheme through which foreign nationals fraudulently obtained immigration documents allowing them to stay in the U.S. on student visas though they were not bona fide students pleaded guilty Thursday to federal immigration fraud charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced in a press release. Read more...
Trump Says New Order on Immigration Possible
By Elizabeth Redden. President Trump on Friday said he might sign a “brand-new order” on immigration as enforcement of his Jan. 27 executive order barring entry into the U.S. for nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries remains halted by the courts. Read more...
Universities Cite 'Damaging Effects' of Trump Order
By Elizabeth Redden. The eight universities in the Ivy League have joined nine other major research universities, including the University of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, in filing an amicus brief in a court challenge levied by the New York state attorney general and others opposing President Trump’s executive order temporarily barring entry by nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries and of refugees. Read more...
DACA Permit Holder Detained
By Elizabeth Redden. A 23-year-old immigrant detained by federal immigration authorities despite holding a permit under former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is suing the government over his arrest, The New York Times reported. Read more...
Trump: DACA a 'Difficult Subject'
By Elizabeth Redden. In a news conference Thursday, President Trump came across as conflicted but noncommittal when asked about his plans for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama-era program under which more than 700,000 young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, many of them college students, have gained temporary protection from deportation and renewable work permits. Read more...
Trump Plans New Executive Order on Immigration
By Elizabeth Redden. President Trump said Thursday he will issue a new executive order on immigration after federal courts blocked his administration from enforcing a Jan. 27 order barring entry into the U.S. by refugees and nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries. Read more...
Presidents: Trump Order 'Staining' U.S. Reputation
By Elizabeth Redden. A group of presidents and chancellors from 48 leading universities, including all eight Ivy League institutions, the University of Michigan, and seven University of California campuses, signed a letter to President Trump on Thursday calling him to “rectify or rescind” an executive order barring entry into the U.S. for 90 days or more for nationals of seven Muslim countries. Read more...
Judge Blocks Entry Ban, Visas Restored
By Elizabeth Redden. The U.S. Department of State has restored the validity of visas from individuals from seven countries whose nationals were barred from entering the United States under an executive order signed by President Trump. Read more...