By Elizabeth Redden. A Saudi Arabian man who planned to study at Western Michigan University was beheaded by the Saudi government on Tuesday, the Detroit Free Press reported, citing a report from the Saudi Press Agency. More...
Columbia Reschedules Canceled Panel on Turkey
By Elizabeth Redden. Columbia University has rescheduled a panel event focused on the collapse of the rule of law in Turkey for this Friday, after having abruptly called off the event earlier this month. More...
International Student Numbers in U.S. Decline
By Elizabeth Redden. The total number of international students studying in the U.S. at all levels declined by 2.7 percent from March 2018 to this March, according to quarterly data on student visa holders recently published by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. More...
MD Anderson 'Ousts' 3 Researchers Flagged by NIH
By Elizabeth Redden. MD Anderson Cancer Center has “ousted” three researchers after the National Institutes of Health informed it that the researchers had violated agency rules regarding confidentiality of peer review and disclosure of foreign ties, Science reported. More...
‘Prolonged Institutional Failure’ at Harvard
By Scott Jaschik. A report by Harvard University's government department has found a “deplorable situation” and a “prolonged institutional failure” in the way the department ignored allegations that a prominent scholar there harassed women, The Boston Globe reported. More...
$25 Million Defamation Lawsuit in Rankings Dispute
By Scott Jaschik. Former dean of Temple business school, which admitted the fabrication of data for rankings, says he has been made into a scapegoat and had his reputation tarnished unfairly. University vows to fight in court. More...
SUNY Buffalo Faces Questions About Donor
By Scott Jaschik. A federal jury on Thursday found several executives of Insys, an opioid company, guilty of racketeering in promoting their drugs. More...
New College Florida Agrees to Admissions Reforms
By Scott Jaschik. New College of Florida is facing criticism from on and off campus over policies to conduct extra reviews of applicants whose essays disclose disabilities -- psychological or otherwise -- even if those applicants would have been otherwise eligible for automatic admission. More...
Protest -- and White Supremacist -- at Arkansas Tech
By Scott Jaschik. Scores of students and faculty members at Arkansas Tech University held a rally Tuesday to protest the university's recent decision to name a scholarship for a late professor many view as a Holocaust denier. More...
2 Killed at UNC Charlotte Were Students
By Scott Jaschik. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte announced Wednesday that the two people killed in Tuesday's on-campus shooting were students. More...