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IN HIGH SCHOOL, Timothy A. Duff made the honor roll each semester. He often worked ahead, completing assignments in class while teachers walked other students through the lessons. In particular, [...]

As THE VIOLENCE in the Middle East entered a horrific and deadly chapter, with Hamas's fatal attacks on Israeli civilians and retaliatory strikes on Gaza claiming Palestinian lives, college leaders [...]

RADOMIR RAY MITIC spent part of the summer and fall of 2019 studying civic awareness and engagement among students at a Russian university. As part of his research, which was [...]

Senegalese students and their parents visit the American college fair in Dakar, Senegal, in October 2022. ON A RECENT FALL AFTERNOON, the Place du Souvenir, a large open-air space on [...]

THE UNITED STATES has had many education governors, elected officials who have touted their records on public schools and colleges. Scott Walker, however, was the anti-education governor. Time and again [...]

IN 1980, the U.S. Department of Education polled parents of high-school students on the question of who should pay for college. It was the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, with [...]

NEARLY 1.3 MILLION STUDENTS have disappeared from American colleges during the Covid-19 pandemic, raising alarms that the enrollment emergency projected to arrive a few years from now is already here. [...]

SINCE THE END of the Cold War, and even before, intellectual exchange across borders has been viewed as inherently beneficial. On college campuses and in national capitals the consensus was [...]

A GEORGIA PROFESSOR quit when the state university system refused to require her students to wear masks. A Ph.D. candidate crossed Florida colleges off his job-search list after the University [...]

How could the two universities' responses have been so divergent, with MIT supporting Chen and Tennessee essentially helping the FBI entrap Hu? JUST AFTER the new year, prosecutors charged a [...]

AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION has long prided itself on being a brilliant beacon, attracting generations of students from around the globe. They come for education and for opportunity. Many, having established [...]

WHEN CORNELL UNIVERSITY'S School of Hotel Administration announced plans for a dual-degree program with Peking University, in China, earlier this year, many professors opposed it with alarm. Under President Xi [...]

LILY CAO is dancing in one of Mount Holyoke College's cavernous performance studios, floor-to-ceiling windows casting shadows across the honeyed floors. Outside the studio, late-winter ice glazes the trees around [...]

WELL BEFORE COVID-19, Ed Walton, a top finance official at the University of South Carolina, would convene colleagues to plan for the future. Pressured by lower state appropriations, the university [...]

ENROLLMENTS in foreign-language courses tumbled nearly 17 percent between the fall of 2016 and the fall of 2021, the largest decline in the six decades the Modern Language Association has [...]

WHEN Kwame Gayle first came to Macalester College from Jamaica, he didn't understand why some of his American classmates of color were angry. The Americans challenged college policies they felt [...]

FOR A TIME, the University of Central Missouri appeared to be defying the laws of gravity: Its international enrollments went up and up and up. In just a few years, [...]

FOR THE past several years, the story of international education has been one of uneasiness and uncertainty. The travel ban, shifts in visa policy, a trade war with China, doubts [...]

WILLIAM PRUITT started working at Virginia Tech in 2009, not long after a gunman killed 32 students and professors in the deadliest campus shooting in American history. As a coordinator [...]

IT IS a Saturday morning, but more than 100 students from the Asian University for Women have crowded into a top-floor common room. The occasion for giving up a rare [...]

ON A Sunday in May 2014, 140 students from 49 countries, some in hijabs, some with hair tinted purple to match their graduation robes, walked across the stage to collect [...]

THE ACADEMY has long set itself apart from the rest of the world, as a place of open inquiry and critical thinking. That autonomy is part of what has given [...]

EAST LANSING, MICH.FEEL LIKE some Chinese food? You have options in this college town. Not far from the Michigan State University campus, you can get red-braised pork belly or cold [...]

JERRY BROWN was taking a victory lap. The call went out to reporters early on a recent Monday morning: The governor would attend that day's meeting of the California Community [...]

This Admissions Officer Is Trying to Get Students to Come Anyway. MUMBAI Jonathan D. Weller is going to miss his flight, that much seems clear. He is caught in one [...]

BERKELEY, CALIF. NOT LONG ago, Nicholas B. Dirks, a former chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, visited Tsinghua University, in Beijing. He had flown halfway around the world [...]

KENNETT, MO. Drive 90 miles north on Interstate 55 from Memphis, then 20 miles west on Route 412, cutting through seemingly endless fields of cotton, rice, and soybeans. You'll know [...]

MICHAEL SIMON used to help high-school dropouts get back on track. He was always searching for jobs where his clients--often men and women with a history of legal or drug [...]

Detroit If you're an international applicant to Wayne State University, chances are you might have heard directly from it recently, a personal note to reassure you. We want you to [...]

HICKORY, N.C. WHEN NORTH Carolinians went to the polls last November, for many, it was with a distinct sense of economic unease. The economy was the most important issue, voters [...]

The American campus today is global. Colleges send their students abroad and welcome the best and brightest from around the world, some one million last year, to their classrooms. Research [...]

Chinese students leave U.S. colleges armed with degrees and full of hope. Until reality sets in. Beijing By the time she got the official news, Wendy Wu already knew. The [...]

IT HAPPENED SO SLOWLY that no one really noticed at first. That's the way erosion works. It is a gradual decay. But somewhere along the line, over the past three [...]

Was Daniel M. Piston college material? A decade ago, as a high-school student in Syracuse, N.Y., Mr. Piston didn't think so. He lacked focus. His grades were so-so. And it [...]

PUBLIC CONFIDENCE in higher education's ability to lead America in a positive direction has sunk steeply in recent years, falling 14 percentage points just since 2020. Two years ago, more [...]

LOUISVILLE, KY. When students at the J.B. Atkinson Academy for Excellence arrive for the assembly that opens the elementary school's year, they don't line up by teacher. Rather, they gather [...]

TEMPE, ARIZ. You're the only one, the Americans told Amnah Alkhan. We've never really talked with other girls who wear head scarves. Just you. Arizona State University, where Amnah is [...]

BEIJING ABBY WU and her parents sat side by side on the living-room couch in their apartment. The sun had not yet risen on this chilly December morning, and they [...]

ONE MINUTE the class looked like any online session, neat boxes framing the faces of students and their professor. The next, some of those faces disappeared, replaced by avatars. pseudonyms, [...]

YOU MIGHT have heard--Hillary Clinton has a free-college plan. Plenty of ink has been spilled on the Democratic presidential nominee's proposal to cover in-state tuition at public colleges for families [...]

AMERICAN COLLEGES have begun limiting travel to China, even as they scramble to prepare for the potential impact of coronavirus on their home campuses. Arizona State University, the only college [...]

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION is calling for a unified national approach to international education, saying it is time for a 'renewed U.S. commitment' to American higher education and its global connections. [...]

AFTER STEEP DECLINES in international-student numbers during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new snapshot survey from the Institute of International Education paints a more optimistic international-enrollment picture for the coming fall. [...]

INTERNATIONAL ENROLLMENT has faced enormous headwinds in the past year. The pandemic prevented most first-year international students from coming to America last fall--the number of new foreign students in the [...]

PHILADELPHIA XIXIAOXING works out of a warren of labs on the fifth floor of Temple University's state-of-the-art science and technology building. On a morning in late fall, he led a [...]

ANXIETY has been rampant about the 'Trump effect,' the idea that the president's travel ban and anti-foreigner rhetoric could discourage--or prevent--top students and scholars from coming to the United States [...]

SHANGHAI TRY TO log onto Facebook in mainland China, and you'll get an error message. Ditto for YouTube, Instagram, and The New York Times. Search for a controversial term like [...]

IN 1940, James Bryant Conant, then president of Harvard University, laid out his vision of an egalitarian society, a classless culture based on educational opportunity, not chance of birth. The [...]

IN A STARTLING REVERSAL, the Trump administration agreed last week to rescind a visa policy that would have forced international students to enroll in in-person classes or leave the country. [...]

AS COLLEGES NAVIGATE an uncertain route to the fall semester, one of the biggest question marks is international students. Although a recent survey by the Institute of International Education found [...]