By Elizabeth Redden. McGill University announced Wednesday that it had received gift of 200 million Canadian dollars (about $151 million) -- what it called “the single-largest gift in Canadian history” -- from the McCall MacBain Foundation to create a graduate-level scholarship program. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. The Oregonian reports on a series of cases in which Saudi students at U.S. colleges were accused of crimes but disappeared before facing U.S. criminal charges. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. Angered by a talk by a Uighur activist, a group of Chinese students at McMaster University, in Ontario, contacted Chinese government officials, The Washington Post reported. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. The number of international students in Canada increased by 16 percent from 2017 to 2018, following on a 20 percent increase the year before. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. The New York Times reported that Chinese authorities turned to a Yale University geneticist to help them build a system of genetic surveillance targeting Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group that has been subject to an intense government campaign of oppression and surveillance. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam is eliminating a bachelor’s degree program in Dutch due to low enrollments, the NL Times, an English-language newspaper covering the Netherlands, reported. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. The family of a University of Wisconsin Madison student who died on a study abroad program at John Cabot University, in Rome, has settled a wrongful death suit it filed against John Cabot. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. As the date for the U.K.'s planned withdrawal from the European Union approaches, universities plan for a "no-deal" Brexit while hoping that won't happen. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. Two new government reports look at questions of Chinese government control over Confucius Institutes hosted by U.S. campuses. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. Survey of prospective students and their parents offers insight into how they view Roman Catholic colleges. Many are open to them but generally aren't choosing institutions because of their Catholic character. More...
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