By Elizabeth Redden. Professionals in higher education have paid increasing attention to the challenge of integrating international students on their campuses in recent years, but a session here at the NAFSA: Association of International Educators conference focused on integrating them into the broader community. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Hundreds of thousands of students internationally are enrolled in institutions that were created and are led by colleges and universities or academics from other countries. While this form of education has become increasingly important to students and both host countries and exporting nations, a lack of common terminology, data collection and regulation creates problems both for students and countries, according to a new report. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Politicians and plenty of parents throughout the world regularly urge students to think practically, and to focus on degrees in technology or business. And colleges and universities around the world are being pressured to focus on disciplines outside the liberal arts and sciences.
But a survey being released today suggests that leaders of a range of organizations internationally (including the United States) are most likely to have a degree in the social sciences, with 44 percent of leaders holding such a credential. Read more...
By Elizabeth Redden and Scott Jaschik. The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday announced the indictment of 15 Chinese nationals for what authorities called an elaborate scheme that allowed some people to fraudulently win admission to American colleges and to gain U.S. visas. Read more...
By Doug Lederman. The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation has weathered more than its fair share of turbulence in its few years in existence, perhaps the inevitable result of its origins (a merger between two unequal and competing accreditors) and its mission (tougher standards in a field long criticized for settling for lesser ones). That the organization has accomplished what it has, let alone survived at all, is arguably a victory. Read more...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “studentPOLL”
Organizations: Art & Science Group and ACT
Summary: The latest iteration of “studentPOLL” asked a national sample of college-bound students who had taken the ACT about paying for college. The survey was conducted in February, after students had applied to college but before most admissions and financial-aid decisions had been made. More...
By Brock Read. As it announced a plan on Monday to forgive the debt incurred by many former students of Corinthian Colleges, the U.S. Department of Education promised reforms that could make it easier for other students who feel they have been defrauded by colleges to seek loan forgiveness. More...
By Goldie Blumenstyk. The letters that passed between the 19th-century poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are renowned for their lyrical expressions of mutual love. The much-more-recent correspondence between U.S. Sen. Richard J. Durbin and executives of ITT Educational Services? Not so much. More...
By Sarah Brown. Barnard College announced on Thursday that it would join the fast-growing number of women’s colleges with clarified admissions policies for transgender students. More...
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