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Image: Another Big Ten president is on the way out. Ohio State University president Kristina Johnson announced Monday that she is resigning at the end of the academic year. The news broke Monday night with initial reports that...November 30, 2022 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: China’s strict zero-COVID policy, still in effect nearly three years into the pandemic, has become a lightning rod for criticism of the government. University campuses have been at the vanguard of these public...November 30, 2022 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: Students are obtaining postsecondary education from more places than ever—on-the-job training, military service and high school dual enrollment, to name a few, in addition to two-year and four-year colleges. That makes...November 30, 2022 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: When Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, was speaking at a conference on Catholic higher education last month, she referred to the university, a women’s institution in Washington, D.C., in a...November 29, 2022 from Diverse
Higher ed association leaders seek to address financial aid confusion by forming a task force to establish guiding principles...November 29, 2022 from Diverse
Wendi Williams has been appointed provost and senior vice president of Fielding Graduate University.November 29, 2022 from Diverse
Dr. Kristina M. Johnson, president of The Ohio State University, will be stepping down.November 29, 2022 from Diverse
N.C. A&T will use a $1 million grant from the NSF to implement a program to help boost the number of STEM graduate students from...November 29, 2022 from Diverse
A new report finds that LGBTQ youth are disproportionally represented in juvenile correctional facilities, and among all incarcerated...November 29, 2022 from Diverse
The latest “Completing College” report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that 62.3% of those who began...November 29, 2022 from Diverse
Jennie Vaughan, chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington, retires next year.November 29, 2022 from Diverse
Two Cuyahoga Community College professors are suing the institution, claiming that it and its top administrators retaliated against...November 29, 2022 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: Ellen Vitetta, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Scheryle Simmons Patigian Distinguished Chair in Cancer Immunobiology at the University of Texas’s Southwestern Medical Center, worked for decades to make her...November 29, 2022 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security expanded opportunities for international students who have earned U.S. degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to extend their stays in the...November 29, 2022 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: In the final month of the 117th Congress, lawmakers are hoping to pass an appropriations bill to fund the government for the fiscal year, codify protections for same-sex and interracial marriages, and push through the annual...November 29, 2022 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: Martine Howard, chair of languages and communications at Camden County College, was frustrated to see students return to campus year after year without graduating—or not return at all. She watched the pattern repeat...November 29, 2022 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Kevin Beardmore , vice president of student affairs at Owensboro Community and Technical College, in Kentucky, has been appointed president of Southeast New Mexico College. Jack Bourla , owner of Providence Chiropractic Center, in...November 28, 2022 from Diverse
A coalition of organizations has filed five amicus curiae briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Biden administration’s...November 28, 2022 from Diverse
Karen Wright has been appointed interim vice president for advancement at Fort Valley State University in Georgia.November 28, 2022 from Inside Higher Ed | News
Image: Jerry Falwell Jr. has no apologies and no regrets. The former president of Liberty University spent years in the shadow of his famous father, and then stepped into the spotlight himself, before accusations of an...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 ...