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Obama Chief of Staff Joins Notre Dame Global Affairs Faculty

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — One of former President Barack Obama’s top White House aides is joining the University of Notre Dame’s international affairs program. The university says Denis McDonough will be an instructor for the first class of graduate students in master of global affairs program. McDonough became the White House chief of staff in […]

Poland to Boost Defenses by Training Student Volunteers

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Defense Ministry says it is starting a new program to boost the nation’s defenses by offering military training to university student volunteers. Poland has been making efforts to increase its defense capabilities amid security concerns raised in the region by Russia’s military activity. It is upgrading its military equipment and increasing […]

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‘China Quarterly’ Editor Says Cambridge University Press to Restore Articles

LONDON — The editor of “The China Quarterly” says Cambridge University Press has agreed to restore more than 300 politically sensitive articles that had been removed from the publisher’s website in China at the behest of authorities. Quarterly editor Tim Pringle told The Associated Press on Monday that the publisher agreed to repost the articles […]

Few Speak Up On Sex Assaults, Harassment at Aussie Campuses

CANBERRA, Australia — A survey of more than 30,000 Australian university students released on Tuesday found that half the respondents had been sexually harassed and almost one in 50 had been sexually assaulted on campuses, but few made formal complaints. The Australian Human Rights Commission, which surveyed students across all 39 universities in 2015-16, concluded […]

Southern New Hampshire U. Showing Refugees A New Path

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is paving the way as one of the first American institutions to grant online degrees to students living in refugee camps.

When Study Abroad Ends in Death, U.S. Parents Find Few Answers

NEW DELHI — When Elizabeth Brenner’s 21-year-old son died while hiking during a study-abroad trip in India, she began searching for other cases and found only partial data and anecdotal records. “Nobody was keeping track of this at all,” she said. Brenner’s son, Thomas Plotkin, was one of the millions of American students who have […]

Report: International Student Yield for U.S. Colleges Holds Steady

Despite fears that international students might stay away from the U.S. because of President Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban, which has been partially permitted pending Supreme Court review, that doesn’t appear to be happening this fall, a new survey has found.

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U.S. Denies Visas to Gambia Teens in Global Robotics Contest

DAKAR, Senegal — The United States has denied visas to five teenage students from Gambia competing in a prestigious international robotics contest in Washington, the team’s leader said Tuesday. The teens found the rejection “very disheartening,” said Mucktarr M.Y. Darboe, who is also a director in the largely Muslim West African nation’s ministry of higher […]

Syrian Doctor Caught in Travel Ban Gives Up, Moves to Canada

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Syrian doctor says he won’t return to the United States to finish his studies at Brown University because of the Trump administration’s travel ban. Khaled Almilaji said Wednesday there’s too much uncertainty, even though he possibly could get a student visa under the scaled-back version of the ban. The administration has […]

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Father of Missing Chinese Scholar: ‘Give My Daughter Back’

URBANA, Ill. — The father of a visiting Chinese scholar missing from the University of Illinois made an emotional appeal on Thursday for his 26-year-old child’s safe return, saying in an interview: “Give my daughter back.” Yingying Zhang was last seen on a surveillance video getting into a black Saturn Astra in Urbana on the […]

Guillermo: Diversity Loses When Public Schools Go ‘Private’

It’s been said that public higher education has been the way for the common man to excel in uncommon ways. But when states cut funding to these places of higher learning, the basic character of these so-called “flagship” institutions change.

UCLA professor Ozan Jaquette

South Korean Police Arrest Suspect in University Explosion

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean police on Tuesday detained a 25-year-old graduate student for allegedly placing a concealed explosive device that injured a professor at a university office in Seoul. An official from Seoul’s Seodaemun district police station said the suspect confessed after being tracked down by police who examined security video and secured […]

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