The number of foreign students in American schools has been surging over the past decade, and numbers are up again .The trend is noteworthy in light of President Donald Trump’s executive order, which aims to bar citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the US for 90 days. The future of the ban is currently in

Community colleges are an integral facet of the US higher education system. Serving nearly 6.3 million students, these public, two-year institutions offer a variety of courses and degree programs at a third of the price charged by four-year colleges. Because most community colleges have transfer agreements with baccalaureate-granting institutions, many students who seek a bachelor’s degree initially matriculate at a

“FBI Insider: Clinton Emails Linked to Political Pedophile Sex Ring,” declared a blog post just days before the U.S. presidential election. And earlier this year [2017], an online headline blasted: “BOMBSHELL: Trump and Putin Spotted at Swiss Resort Prior to Election.” There was only one problem. Neither was true at all. Even the sources were suspect. The headlines, it turned

  Having previously studied in Canada as an undergrad, British-Ethiopian Hannah Getachew says she was familiar with some of the challenges associated with moving to a new country. That’s why she enrolled in the buddy program at the School of Transnational Law at Peking University in China before beginning her graduate studies. Buddy programs are organized efforts to pair incoming

Starting in January, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor will guarantee free tuition for all in-state undergraduates with an annual family income of $65,000 or less. Many observers cheered the announcement on Thursday, but some higher-education experts greeted it with skepticism. After all, many low-income students receive free tuition through existing financial-aid programs. And what about student fees and

Young voters, angered over what they must pay to attend universities, were a big part of the Labour Party’s revival.   British university leaders must recognize young voters’ anger about tuition fees in the wake of the success of the Labour Party’s policy to introduce free higher education in England, according to members of Parliament who believe that the Conservatives’