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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 [...]

President Trump is expected to indefinitely halt resettlement of Syrian refugees in the country and to temporarily suspend all travel from a half-dozen other countries with Muslim majorities. Although an [...]

IN JULY 2009, during the depths of the recession, President Obama traveled to Macomb County, in Michigan, to unveil a plan to invest $12 billion in the nation's community colleges. [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. -- From an early age, Leon Botstein's life was shaped by two powerful forces: fascism and education. His parents fled Nazi persecution in Poland and, [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer Amie K. Lund's long-distance collaboration with a researcher in France was a modest one. They published a paper together, exchanging drafts by email. But Ms. Lund, who [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer Each fall, thousands and thousands of students from one East Asian country arrive on American campuses. They come from a culture that views education as key to [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer The nation's historically black colleges have a legacy of international engagement. They educated generations of political, business, and scientific leaders, from Africa as well as from countries [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer American scholars of Hindu religion and culture say recent efforts in India to suppress the work of a prominent academic are having a chilling effect on their [...]

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Byline: Karin Fischer Washington -- In recent years, the discussion on international students has largely been about how to best recruit talented students from overseas. That may be changing. Now [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer When Xia Yeliang was fired by Peking University (http://chronicle.com/article/Peking-U-Fires-Scholar/142495/) this past fall, the Chinese economist and human-rights campaigner said his dismissal had been politically motivated. University officials [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer As a diplomat, Lee A. Feinstein has made a career of crossing borders. So it's probably no surprise that Mr. Feinstein, who served as ambassador to Poland [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer In recent years, a growing number of American universities have opened offices, and even campuses, in China. Gregory Marchi has just done the opposite. As the first [...]

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 In a sudden role reversal, the number of Indian students entering American graduate schools this fall exploded, while the share of new graduate students from China increased [...]

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 The United States is projected to be the largest and fastest-growing destination for foreign students over the next decade, according to a report (http://ihe.britishcouncil.org/educationintelligence/future-world-mobile-students-2024) released on Tuesday [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer You might not have noticed, but we're in the midst of the high season for global university rankings. In mid-August, the annual Academic Ranking of World Universities, [...]

PHILADELPHIA Myanmar, Malaysia. Colombia, Guatemala, Brazil. Jordan. Taiwan. Morgan Volkart's work as associate vice provost for international recruitment at Lehigh University has taken her around the world, and more. Volkart [...]

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 United States is experiencing an international-student boom. But that boom is not being shared equally by all colleges. The number of foreign students at American colleges rose 10 percent [...]

For violent criminals probably--for the rest, it's not so clear It's a politician's dream come true. For the second year in a row, the Clinton administration has had the pleasure [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer Singapore -- Tan Chorh Chuan has a rule: Every week he reserves a few uninterrupted hours to paint or sketch. It's fitting that the man who helped [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer Singapore -- 'I want you to be uncomfortable,' Rajeev S. Patke told his 'Literature and Humanities' students. It was the second week of classes at Yale-NUS College, [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer East Lansing, Mich. -- When Mengshi Zhao arrived at Michigan State University last summer, it took some getting used to. The grassy vistas of the upper Midwest [...]

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 Stormy Almanza figured she'd graduate from Augustana College this spring without ever studying abroad. After cobbling together scholarships and loans to cover tuition at the small, private [...]

Byline: Karin Fischer The Chinese aren't coming as they used to. Not to American graduate schools, anyway. After seven consecutive years of double-digit increases, the number of Chinese applications to [...]

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 Ahmadabad, India -- American colleges have to be in India. After all, no other country in this century, save China, is likely to be as important geopolitically, [...]