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The Education Department announced its intention Wednesday to end grant funding for minority-serving institutions, a move affecting hundreds of colleges that serve a disproportionate number of students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. Read more
More support needed for disadvantaged students during medical studies to compensate for lack of ‘insider knowledge’ Read more
President Donald Trump’s plan to admit 600,000 Chinese college students over the next two years is a “bad deal” according to foreign policy experts Read more
It was the first week of school at Harvard, and students were posted up at a usual spot in front of the library taking carefree selfies—steps away from a flyer calling for the “Fall of the Trump Fascist Regime.” Upperclassmen fell back into the familiarity of old friends— while freshmen from abroad, many stepping on campus for the first time as students, asked orientation advisers what to do if they encountered immigration agents. Read more
Pensacola State College is the latest Florida institution to sign an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to allow its campus police department to enforce immigration laws, following the lead of more than a dozen other public institutions across the state. Read more
Unusual rocks discovered on Mars contain the most tantalising evidence yet of potential past life on the Red Planet. Read more
Three of Virginia’s top Democratic senators have accused the head of George Mason University’s Board of Visitors of having an “untenable ethical conflict” by serving as a chief adviser to a conservative foundation that has advocated for cutting off the college’s federal funding for allegedly trying to hide its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Read more
Researcher whose name appeared on letter coordinated by the group Scholars for Truth About Genocide says he has no idea how it got there Read more
Amid an on-going debate about noncitizens’ right to free speech, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has sued Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration for allegedly violating international students’ rights. Read more
There’s an assumption throughout higher education that adult learners who want to finish their degree will simply return to the institution where they stopped out. Read more
