Chinese students at MIT, NYU, and GWU recently launched campaigns protesting the Chinese government’s extreme COVID-19 lockdown measures. Read more

Move by Afghan government ‘opens door’ for more of its supporters to become lecturers, scholars fear Read more

Western Michigan University officials said they are looking into allegations of free speech violations against a student libertarian group after school administrators allegedly had an “intimidating interaction” with the activists. Read more

Violent and disrespectful classroom behaviour has led to a staggering 50 teachers and bus drivers to quit a US school district in the last two years. Read more

Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano appeared on Wilkow! to discuss how major U.S. companies are dropping their requirement to have four-year degrees. Read more

A Students of Color Alliance lounge that requires students fill out a form listing what identity-based group they belong to before being granted electronic ID card swipe access to the venue has been established at an elite private college in Southern California. Read more

Some laud the agreement. Others say it falls short. If nothing else, the deal offers an example of how a collection of colleges is navigating a tense academic publishing ecosystem. Read more

Brown University now explicitly prohibits discrimination on the basis of caste, joining a number of US colleges and universities in shoring up protections against an ill-understood, insidious form of oppression. Read more

A record number of college students reported fear of sharing an opinion in the classroom that might differ from their peers, according to the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program’s eighth annual survey. Read more

Undergraduate graduation regalia can cost over $100, doctoral regalia as much as $1,000. To ease the financial burden on students, some institutions are asking alumni for donations. Read more