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College officials across the country have been debuting plans over the past week to abide by new federal rules for responding to complaints of sexual misconduct on campus. The rules go into effect today as many colleges are preparing for...August 14, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
For decades, Arcadia University has been a key player in international education, operating a network of study abroad programs in which students at several hundred colleges participate. Study abroad is largely shut down because of...August 14, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
In surveys, polling data and lawsuits , the message from students is clear: we expect to pay less for online instruction. Though many colleges and universities have not bowed to that pressure, some are now offering substantial tuition...August 14, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
The State Department announced Thursday that it was designating the Washington, D.C.-based Confucius Institute U.S. Center a "foreign mission" of the People's Republic of China. The center coordinates language and cultural...August 14, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
The New Mexico State University system announced Tuesday a broad restructuring plan for three of its campuses as it aims to reduce expenses in the face of declining enrollment across New Mexico and pandemic-related state budget cuts. The...August 14, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Two years ago, the head of Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore asked her staff to imagine how they would build a college from scratch. "Start with a blank slate, with no legacy structure and no resource constraints," she said. Her...August 13, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Twenty-Eight COVID-19 Cases at the U. of Tennessee, Knoxville Aug. 13, 5:30 p.m . The University of Tennessee at Knoxville reported that 20 students and 8 staff members have COVID-19, WATE News reported today. Due to potential exposure,...August 13, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
In mid-July, Joshua S. Weitz presented a fall risk assessment to the Georgia Institute of Technology's Academic Restart Committee. Weitz, a professor of biological sciences at Georgia Tech and founding director of the quantitative...August 13, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
The University of North Carolina System and its campuses are facing a potential class-action lawsuit from students, faculty and staff members over plans to reopen dorms and hold some classes face-to-face. In many cases, students already...August 13, 2020 from Inside Higher Ed | News
When Kamala Harris stood before Howard University's graduating class last year to give the commencement address, she told the students she'd been where they sat when she graduated from the university three decades earlier....August 12, 2020 from Diverse
The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) recently came out with a series of ten papers on ways to streamline the notoriously complicated FAFSA, the application for student financial aid. With grant...August 12, 2020 from Diverse
Students can now apply to the University of Maryland (UMD) through the Common Application. UMD joined the Common App in order to attract more students who previously wouldn’t have considered applying. The Common App, which serves...August 12, 2020 from Diverse
Historically Black colleges and universities continue to be needed and relevant. That was the sentiment expressed by higher education and political leaders who convened virtually on Wednesday to participate in Virginia Union University’s...August 12, 2020 from Diverse
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has appointed Dr. Lorenzo Esters vice president for advancement and member engagement. In this role, Esters will promote the mission of AAC&U. Esters comes to...August 12, 2020 from Diverse
On Wednesday, Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world’s largest maker of scientific tools, announced a project to support testing, at no-cost, to the nation’s HBCUs, including establishing national HBCU testing centers to process COVID-19...August 12, 2020 from Diverse
North Carolina State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Davis are the first three charter members of SEA Change, an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)...August 12, 2020 from Diverse
A Partners for College Affordability and Public Trust (Partners) coalition is calling for a “Tuition Payer Bill of Rights” that would constitute a series of “long-overdue” consumer protections ensuring that...October 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
As the world becomes more interconnected and interdependent, nations face increasing pressure to improve their political, economic, social, technological and environmental infrastructures in order ...October 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The South African Constitutional Court's recent unanimous decision upholding Stellenbosch University's policy favouring English is important in both substance and tone for its evolving narrative o ...October 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
As two of the top host countries in the world, the United States and United Kingdom have long benefited from attracting large numbers of international students. Internationalisation dialogue and p ...October 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The higher education landscape in Uzbekistan, Central Asia, has been changing rapidly over the past three years. Since the passing of Uzbekistan's first president, Islam Karimov, in 2016, who had ...October 19, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
In the first 100 days of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second administration, the government has launched yet another rethink of higher education policies and priorities through the draft ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Regional growth and more political stability in the Asia region, allowing for greater investment in education and research, have reduced brain drain of researchers and academics and led to a rapid ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A new report shows there is a well-developed funding system in the Nordic region compared to other regions in the world but with significant differences between the countries, with the highest lev ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Last week the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published an analysis finding that the agency i ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Mahatma Gandhi is revered across the world for his non-violent campaign for Indian independence and was nominated five times for the Nobel Peace Prize. But plans to unveil a statue in his memory i ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A University of KwaZulu-Natal student, Khanyile Nzimande, has apparently confessed to killing his friend whom he described as "a zombie that blocked his fortune" in a video circulating on social m ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Analysis shows that black and minority ethnic (BME) academic staff at universities in the United Kingdom are paid less than their white counterparts and are considerably less likely to hold the mo ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Some private universities may approach the government of India to propose that contributions to privately funded higher education be included within the ambit of corporate social responsibility (C ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill on 11 October requiring medication abortion services at public state universities starting in 2023, writes Caroline Kelly for CNN . "As othe ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Eight years after Syrians began to enter Lebanon in flight from an uprising that turned into civil war, young refugees continue to struggle for integration into the Lebanese education system at ev ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Vincent Sun, CEO of Huawei Egypt, and Dr Mohamed El Tayeb, Egypt's assistant minister of higher education, signed a memorandum of understanding on 15 October on strategic cooperation in informatio ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A campaign calling on the education ministry and parliament to produce new regulations for students with mental disabilities who want to study at Turkish universities has drawn support from nearly ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A review into how higher education providers are categorised has recommended a simplified system that aims to benefit students and protect Australia's international reputation, reports Mirage N ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A call to scrap graduation fees at Scottish universities and colleges was backed by members of the Scottish National Party (SNP) at the party's recent conference, writes Lewis McKenzie for Glas ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
United States House of Representatives Democrats have unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the federal higher education law, aiming to increase access to college for low-income and minority students wi ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A number of universities are staring at imminent closure as the state moves to streamline higher learning in Kenya after Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha gave yet another indica ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Noted educationist Dr Akbar Ali Khan has called for a reshuffle in the administration of all universities in Bangladesh, aiming to stop any repeat of the brutal incident in Bangladesh University o ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
A record number of over 300,000 bachelor and masters degree students enrolled at Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences for the 2019-20 academic year, according to preliminary fig ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
New Zealand universities and dorm accommodation providers were told on 15 October they could face hefty fines following a gruesome case in which a student's decomposing body lay undetected in his ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
About one quarter of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted, according to a disturbing new national survey in the United States, which found that at one institution, the Universit ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Academics from across the globe have condemned Murdoch University's treatment of a whistleblower who spoke out about international student exploitation, saying they are "appalled" at what they see ...October 18, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The Microbiology Society has become the first small learned society publisher to strike a transitional open access deal through Jis ...October 17, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
The government plans to open up Russian citizenship to many foreign students after graduation and ease restrictions on side jobs for foreign students studying in Russia. In addition, the quota ...October 17, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Ghana's National Accreditation Board was established in 1993 by the government of Ghana for four primary purposes. One is giving official quality approval to both public and private tertiary e ...October 17, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Nigerian students in Benin are at the receiving end of an unstable economic situation and fractured political relations between the two neighbours. Three weeks after the Seme-Krake international b ...October 15, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
South Korea's embattled justice minister, Cho Kuk, has resigned just 35 days after he was appointed to the ministerial post amid an outcry over alleged admissions favours for his daughter and the ...October 15, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Violent student protests have erupted in Bangladesh over the killing of an engineering student by members of the ruling party's student organisation, the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL). Several B ...October 15, 2019 from University World News Global Edition
Leading universities across Australia have been accused of helping the Chinese Communist Party develop mass surveillance and military technologies. The claims made on Monday night add to growi ...December 1, 2017 from Higher Education
Main image: AFTER a night of drunken flirting, Amber and Tom, two college freshmen at Princeton, end up in bed together. Sex was something they both seemed to want. When Tom had resisted playing a game at a keg party earlier in...