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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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

WHEN the Trump administration issued an executive order last week halting the issuance of new visas to citizens of six predominantly Muslim countries, it argued that the timeout was necessary [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer The Saudi government is taking a tougher line on whether students in its vast scholarship program can enroll in online or hybrid courses, but American colleges have [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer Students often get the chance to pick up a new language or learn to navigate a strange city while studying abroad. Mary, a pre-med student at the [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer Since the Boston Marathon bombings three weeks ago, the U.S. government has enacted just one significant security change: It has ordered increased scrutiny of international students coming [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer Two years after President Obama lifted an embargo on academic travel to Cuba, independent study-abroad providers may finally be able to take American students to the Communist [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer The American Association of University Professors has issued an open letter (http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/newsroom/2012webhighlight/Yalelet.htm) expressing 'growing concern' about academic and personal freedoms at a controversial new liberal-arts campus in [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer Washington -- An unannounced change in how customs officials process visas for incoming international students is causing major headaches just as tens of thousands of them arrive [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer Changes in federal student-loan regulations could make it difficult for students from the United States to use their aid when studying abroad. Tougher U.S. reporting requirements have [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer Washington -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced on Thursday (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-03-01/pdf/2012-4897.pdf) the formation of a new council (http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/20120301-napolitano-announces-academic-advisory-council.shtm) to advise Secretary Janet Napolitano on student-visa issues [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer Washington -- If anything was clear after the inaugural meeting of a commission tasked with making recommendations on international-student recruitment practices, it is that the task ahead [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer Headlines in recent weeks have highlighted the stumbles, and sometimes outright spills, by American colleges seeking to set up degree programs with foreign partners. State University of [...]

Byline: Tom Bartlett, Karin Fischer, and Josh Keller Early on a Friday morning, four college students stand shivering in the parking lot of an office complex in Sterling, Va. The [...]

Byline: KARIN FISCHER The Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act, which would expand the number of American students studying overseas to one million within a decade, a nearly fivefold [...]

Byline: KARIN FISCHER A federal judge has struck down a Florida law that restricts travel by students, faculty members, and researchers at the state's public colleges and universities to Cuba [...]

With just a few weeks before his controversial travel ban was scheduled to get a Supreme Court hearing, President Trump issued revamped restrictions on travelers from eight countries, including Iran, [...]

THE U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to allow a limited version of President Trump's travel ban to take effect, but it said that visitors with ties to the United [...]

Along-anticipated executive order issued last week restricting travelers from a half-dozen predominantly Muslim countries is likely to bring little certainty to American college campuses. The revised order, which replaces a [...]

THERE were reunions on college campuses across the country after a federal judge temporarily blocked an executive order by President Trump barring travelers--including those on student visas--from seven predominantly Muslim [...]

Byline: KARIN FISCHER Students at Utah's public colleges and universities may soon be able to request a roommate who does not carry a concealed weapon, but their potential roommates will [...]

Byline: KARIN FISCHER Kansans living in counties that are home to the state's public colleges could pay more taxes to help deal with a campus maintenance backlog, under a proposal [...]

Byline: KARIN FISCHER and SARA HEBEL Legislatures are set to convene this month in 43 states. With many of those states enjoying solid fiscal footing, higher-education officials have put budget [...]