The number of students from the United States heading to China to study is likely to increase in the years to come due to their sustained interest in the country, a US State Department official said, as both Washington and Beijing agreed to ramp up people-to-people exchanges. Read more

Aberdeen’s proposal to close language degree programmes might save money but it will impoverish international understanding Read more

The student newspaper at Ashland University won greater editorial control following the intervention of a national free speech group. Read more

Texas A&M University’s governing board agreed Sunday to pay $75 million to buy out the remaining years on the contract of Jimbo Fisher, the football coach it fired after winning 45 of 70 games over the six years he was its coach. Read more

The University of Washington found race was “inappropriately considered” in a recent faculty hire, it admitted last month. Read more

Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills — such as recognizing fake news and thinking critically about what they encounter on the internet. Read more

Combining a series of methods for boosting research reproducibility found to produce huge gains in overall success Read more

Lotta Edholm aims to limit the profit-making ability of friskolor in her plans for education reform Read more

Oklahoma’s public universities have poured over $83.4 million into diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives over the last decade, leading critics — including some state lawmakers, conservative watchdogs and alumni — to call for DEI to be defunded in the Sooner State. Read more

Proposed legislation that would ostensibly revamp Ohio’s public higher education system is so highly contested that observers doubt it will pass anytime soon, even after repeated modifications. Read more