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Almost two weeks after rescinding a rule on all international students and online courses, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a new guidance on whether newly-enrolled international students can take online courses without a single in-person course. The agency, which operates under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security, issued the guidance […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) withdrew its international student policy after a little over a week, when several higher education institutions filed lawsuits against the rule. According to Inside Higher Ed, the rule required international students to take in-person coursework to remain in the U.S., or they would have to head to their home […]

Nevada’s former governor resigned from MGM to pursue the University of Nevada-Reno’s university presidency position.

The ongoing coronavirus will affect U.S. colleges and universities student enrollment and their budgets, according to a survey of U.S. higher education institutions.

Brown University followed Princeton’s lead in removing a requirement for graduate school: GRE (or standardized test scores) from its graduate application processes for multiple departments.

The Democratic governor of New Mexico proposed that the state pay for in-state college tuition for all New Mexico residents, despite evidence that college education may not be worth the high price tag.

A recent study by Johns Hopkins University researchers claims that Trump’s 2016 election led to more preterm births among U.S. Latina mothers than in the previous year.

A study conducted by University of Utah claimed that there are benefits of abortion for the male partners, which study was criticized as several of the co-authors have publicly supported abortion.

A left-wing advocacy group Public Citizen issued a report criticizing the libertarian philanthropist Charles Koch for donating money to George Washington University’s Regulatory Studies Center, which Public Citizen claims unduly influences the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda.

The newly-installed social science dean at Cal-Berkeley once claimed conservatives are sexist during a 2017 lecture. So much for political neutrality and fairness in the social sciences department at the university.

The University of Washington College Republicans will hold an “Affirmative Action Bake Sale” Friday with prices based upon consumers’ gender and status as “Asian,” “White,” “African American,” “Hispanic,” or “Native American.” The bake sale price list includes a twenty-five cent discount for females. Those in the Asian category pay top dollar, while Native Americans get […]

Two petition gatherers at the University of Louisville want to repurpose space for an archives for U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell and his wife, Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, for a student lounge or LGBTQ community space.