By Elizabeth Redden. Higher education associations and groups promoting free speech on campus released a statement today in response to reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has advised research universities to monitor students and scholars from Chinese state-affiliated research institutions. More...
The ‘Public Charge’ Rule and Higher Ed
By Elizabeth Redden. Trump administration says new regulation will ensure that immigrants are self-sufficient, but higher ed groups are concerned about impacts on legal immigrants and international students. More...
Controversy Over Western Civilization Funding in Australia
By Elizabeth Redden. University of Queensland says fixed-term gift will provide rare infusion of support for humanities, but professors and students have concerns about academic freedom and the donor's political agenda. More...
International Students Report Worries About Gun Violence
By Elizabeth Redden. A quarter of international students attending U.S. colleges report worrying about gun violence at their institution, while 37 percent say they worry about gun violence in the local community, according to a new survey of current international students and recent graduates conducted by the credential evaluation organization World Education Services that garnered 1,921 responses. More...
Building Capacity for More Study Abroad
By Elizabeth Redden. Colleges are looking for ways to increase student participation rates in study abroad programs and to target particular populations that haven't historically studied overseas. More...
Highly Educated Young People at Core of Hong Kong Protests
By Elizabeth Redden. Students and university-educated young people are playing central roles in the protests in Hong Kong. More...
Court Victory for Foreign Students Enrolled in Fake College
By Elizabeth Redden. Their immigration statuses were canceled for enrolling in a fake college that the government set up to nab alleged visa fraudsters. Now they've won the right to challenge the blanket finding that they were willing participants in the fraud. More...
Ph.D. Student Prevented From Leaving Egypt
By Elizabeth Redden. In the Aug. 14 letter, MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom said it appears that suspicions about the purpose and nature of Salem’s dissertation research prompted his arrest and detention. More...
What Chinese Students in the U.S. Are Reading
By Elizabeth Redden. The New Yorker published a feature article about College Daily, an online, Chinese-language publication widely read by Chinese students in the U.S. College Daily, which has 30 staffers in Beijing and 15 in New York, publishes a mix of what The New Yorker describes as “Chinese news delivered with nationalistic overtones; tabloid tales of Chinese students living overseas (sex, drugs, murders and missing women appear frequently); and news from the U.S. and the celebrity world.” More...
Russian Scientists Instructed to Report on Foreign Colleagues
By Elizabeth Redden. New recommendations from Russia's Ministry of Science and Higher Education instruct scientists to seek advance permission to meet with foreign colleagues and to report on those meetings, The New York Times reported. More...