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Mark Kopenski April 26, 2019 64 Comments Off on F.B.I. Bars Some China Scholars From Visiting U.S. Over Spying Fears – The New York TimesBEIJING — Just as he had on previous trips, Zhu Feng bolted down his lunch at a Los Angeles airport before sprinting to catch his Air China flight back to Beijing. Suddenly, two F.B.I. agents blocked the Chinese scholar at the boarding gate and ordered him to hand over his passport. They flipped to the well-used 10-year visa to the
Mark Kopenski April 26, 2019 55 Comments Off on National American University is latest for-profit chain to face financial turmoilAs Democratic lawmakers raked many for-profit colleges over the coals during the past decade, National American University, a chain based in South Dakota, managed to keep its reputation mostly intact. But the publicly traded company has been beleaguered in recent years by the same troubles affecting much of the for-profit sector. Plummeting enrollment has prompted National American to close physical
Mark Kopenski April 26, 2019 53 Comments Off on Report: Public Research Universities Prioritize Out-of-State, High-Income Recruitment | AdmittedPublic research universities often aren’t putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to student recruitment. A new report from The Joyce Foundation found that most public research universities prioritize recruiting out-of-state students and were less likely to visit schools in low-income areas. The report analyzed recruiting visits to local high schools made by admission staff at 15
Mark Kopenski April 26, 2019 58 Comments Off on Prudential to Spend $180 Million on Education and TrainingPrudential Financial announced on Tuesday that it will spend $180 million through 2025 on education and training for young people, ages 15 to 29, who lack access to education, training or regular jobs. The financial services company said it was making this investment in so-called opportunity youth to help prepare the future global work force. “Businesses like ours have a role
Hellenic College Holy Cross, a small Greek Orthodox institution outside Boston, is the latest small New England private college to be facing an uncertain future. The Boston Globe reported that state officials have said they have serious concerns about whether the college is in compliance with regulations about financial viability. The state indicated that it has the right to suspend
A Saudi Arabian man who planned to study at Western Michigan University was beheaded by the Saudi government on Tuesday, the Detroit Free Press reported, citing a report from the Saudi Press Agency. Mujtaba al-Sweikat was reportedly arrested in December 2012 at the King Fahd International Airport while en route to the U.S. Al-Sweikat, who was 17 at the time
Mark Kopenski April 26, 2019 55 Comments Off on A Look at Private Higher Education in the UK | The World ViewThe vast majority of higher education in the United Kingdom (UK) has been delivered by public universities and colleges. The titles “University” and “University College” are legally protected, as are degree awarding powers, and these, until recently, have been exclusively located in the public sector. The University of Buckingham, the first, and for decades the only private university, was not
Mark Kopenski April 26, 2019 55 Comments Off on Three more colleges go test optional in recent weeksLast month, Inside Higher Ed reported on a surge in colleges going test optional in admissions. Winter is typically not a time for many colleges to change admissions policies. In the winter of 2017-18, only one college announced it was going test optional. But in the winter of 2018-19, eight colleges made such a shift. And the article noted that
Mark Kopenski April 26, 2019 68 Comments Off on Research: Chinese employers are more likely to call back Chinese-educated applicants than American-educated onesEmployers in China are more likely to call back job applicants who graduated from Chinese colleges than from American colleges. Even job applicants with degrees from very selective U.S. universities are less likely to get a call back than applicants with degrees from the least selective Chinese institutions. Those are the top-line findings in a new working paper by Mingyu
Mark Kopenski April 26, 2019 50 Comments Off on Two years after rescue, Wheeling Jesuit guts faculty, programsIn the spring of 2017, Wheeling Jesuit University was deeply in debt and looking for ways to get out. Salvation came from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, which had originally gifted the land for the university campus in 1952. In a massive deal whose terms weren’t publicly disclosed at the time, the diocese took control of Wheeling Jesuit’s physical