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23 août 2019

Concerns About Monitoring of Chinese Students and Scholars

HomeBy 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...

23 août 2019

The ‘Public Charge’ Rule and Higher Ed

HomeBy 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...

23 août 2019

Controversy Over Western Civilization Funding in Australia

HomeBy 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...

23 août 2019

International Students Report Worries About Gun Violence

HomeBy 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...

23 août 2019

Building Capacity for More Study Abroad

HomeBy 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...

23 août 2019

Highly Educated Young People at Core of Hong Kong Protests

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Students and university-educated young people are playing central roles in the protests in Hong Kong. More...

23 août 2019

Court Victory for Foreign Students Enrolled in Fake College

HomeBy 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...

23 août 2019

Ph.D. Student Prevented From Leaving Egypt

HomeBy 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...

23 août 2019

What Chinese Students in the U.S. Are Reading

HomeBy Elizabeth ReddenThe 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...

23 août 2019

Russian Scientists Instructed to Report on Foreign Colleagues

HomeBy 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...

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