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23 août 2019

Foreign Gifts Under Scrutiny

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. As Education Department opens investigations into whether universities complied with law requiring federal reporting of foreign gifts and contracts, colleges call for more clarity on what the law requires. More...

23 août 2019

Kabul University Lecturer Accused of Recruiting for ISIS

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. A lecturer at Afghanistan's Kabul University was arrested on the suspicion that he was recruiting students to join the Islamic State, Stars and Stripes reported, citing the country's National Directorate of Security. More...

23 août 2019

Trump Presses for Census Citizenship Question

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Justice Department officials reversed course Friday and told a federal judge they would continue to seek the addition of a question on citizenship to the 2020 census -- but said they didn’t know what rationale they would offer, The New York Times reported. More...

23 août 2019

In the U.K., a Surge in Chinese Applicants

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. The number of Chinese students applying for undergraduate study in the United Kingdom jumped by 30 percent this year, according to data released Thursday by the Universities and Colleges Admission Service, a centralized admission service for U.K. higher education. More...

23 août 2019

Survey Looks at Study Abroad Crime Rates

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. A study of self-reported criminal victimization rates among study abroad students found that victimization rates were generally low, but they were moderate to high in regard to incidents of sexual harassment, unwanted touching and property theft (without force). More...

23 août 2019

Police: American Scientist was Raped, Killed in Crete

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. A man has confessed to abducting, raping and killing an American scientist who was in Crete for an academic conference, The Washington Post reported, citing Greek authorities. More...

23 août 2019

French-Iranian Academic Arrested in Iran

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. An anthropologist at Paris’s prestigious Sciences Po University with dual French and Iranian nationality has been arrested and denied contact with French consular officials in Iran, France 24 reported, citing France’s foreign ministry. More...

23 août 2019

Misunderstanding in $11.6 Million Campus Purchase?

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. The purchasers of a shuttered college campus in Nashua, N.H., mistakenly thought they were buying an operating college, according to the city’s mayor, the Union Leader reported. The campus of the former Daniel Webster College was purchased by a Chinese entity for $11.6 million in 2017. More...

23 août 2019

Collapse of U.S. Government Project at U of Ghana

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. The collapse of a public-private expansion project at the University of Ghana backed by the U.S. government represented a setback for American efforts to counter China’s investment influence in Africa, The Wall Street Journal reported. More...

23 août 2019

Bombing at Kabul University Kills 8

HomeBy Elizabeth ReddenA bomb exploded outside the gates of Kabul University on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding 33, according to the Associated Press, which cited police and health officials. More...

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