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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 [...]