The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher education and extract significant concessions from universities. Read more

I foresee that we will go back to the situation of 25 years ago, when only a small Chinese elite was able to study abroad, says Sabrina Wang Read more

A free speech group is intervening to help a student punished by Central Washington University for criticizing financial aid staff in an email. Read more

On Main Street in Worcester, a Salvadoran bakery sits beside a Chinese takeout joint, just around the corner from Vietnamese and Dominican restaurants. Taken together, they’re a daily reminder of the global community Clark University has cultivated. Read more

Columbia University’s deal with the Trump administration last month marked “a seismic shift” in the federal government’s approach to civil-rights investigations and offered a “roadmap” for colleges to follow in resolving such claims, according to Education Secretary Linda McMahon. Read more

The Department of Homeland Security appears to be backing off threats in a May 22 letter to strip Harvard’s ability to host international students, a matter that remains in litigation. Read more

Proportion of young people planning to attend university full-time has fallen to just over half, survey suggests Read more

As college sports hurtle into a new era of revenue sharing and tighter reins on third-party payments, the landscape is shifting fast—and not without friction. Read more

“They’re afraid for their families. In many ways, they can’t even think freely, even in a free country,” Stanford University’s Elsa Johnson said of Chinese students who study there. Read more

Earlier this year, the president of Connecticut College approached John Nugent, its director of institutional research and planning, with a question. Read more