WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts linked to scammers targeting people around the world in the first half of this year, its parent company Meta says. Read more

Foreign students contribute billions of dollars to the U.S. economy. The public doesn’t seem to care. Read more

Regulator reviewing processes after administrative mix up weeks before applications set to re-open Read more

A federal appeals court overruled a decision blocking parts of Arkansas’ ban on teaching forms of “indoctrination” — including Critical Race Theory — allowing the state government to regulate the curriculum of public schools to avoid teaching discriminatory subjects. Read more

Republican lawmakers have a new obsession: academic-program review Read more

New international enrollments in the U.S. could drop by as many as 150,000 students in the next year, according to scenario modeling by NAFSA, the association of international educators, and JB International. Read more

The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee higher education policy, a man with deep ties to the for-profit college industry, by a 50-to-45 vote on August 1. Read more

Chinese students and scholars face surveillance, harassment and self-censorship at British universities Read more

Concerns about election integrity have arisen after a University of Michigan international student’s illegal voting at a campus polling site highlighted risks of same-day registration fraud and inadequate voter verification processes. Read more

School districts, colleges and all other federal funding recipients were warned this week that the Department of Justice now considers DEI programs discriminatory and, therefore, illegal. Read more