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July 6, 2021 | : President Biden nominated University of Pennsylvania President  Dr. Amy Gutmann to be ambassador to Germany, The New York Times reported. Dr. Amy Gutmann In doing so, Biden is giving an important post to someone who hired him for a lucrative university position after he left the Obama administration. Gutmann – […]

June 7, 2021 | : Using a $2.05 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development, Gallaudet University—alongside Wesley University, Ondo and the Nigerian National Association of the Deaf—plans to launch a program in Nigeria aimed at breaking down negative stigmas around deafness. Dr. Khadijat Rashid Inspired by the late Dr. Isaac O.

With the COVID-19 pandemic creating uncertainty over the last year, Jennifer Long felt mentally and emotionally unprepared for college. Seeking other options, she was referred to Verto Education, a program founded to increase access to international exchange. Designed to be a “gap year without a gap,” first-year students can spend a semester or year abroad

April 5, 2021 | : Northern Kentucky University will investigate – and increase nightly police patrols – after white supremacy graffiti was found on campus, the second vandalization since the year’s start, CNN reported. The graffiti, found on public space “Housing Rock”  included spray-painted stencils of the words, “Patriot Front,” in reference to white nationalist

March 31, 2021 | : Immersed now in her own doctoral studies, Gwen Chodur knows firsthand the essential, non-monetary value that students from other nations add to U.S. colleges and universities. Brought together in 2016, her University of California at Davis cohort of eight, researching and learning nutritional biology, included an Iranian student, a Korean

March 22, 2021 | : Southern University at Shreveport’s (SUSLA) Chancellor Dr. Rodney Ellis and Avance International University of Uganda’s President Dr. Samuel Majwega signed a Memorandum of Understanding earlier this month to expand international educational opportunities for both institutions. Dr. Rodney Ellis and Dr. Terry Kidd “It means that SUSLA faculty and students will

January 22, 2021 | : About a dozen international students are suing Western Iowa Tech Community College, accusing the school of forced labor and trafficking, NBC News reported. The lawsuit – filed last Monday – accuses the school of coercing students from Brazil and Chile to come to the school under a J-1 visa program.

A recently released report from U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos alleges that Georgetown University failed to properly disclose gifts and contracts worth several billion dollars from Chinese, Saudi Arabian and Qatari entities according to The Hoya. The Department of Education also accused Harvard University, Yale University, and Stanford University of failing to disclose the

November 2, 2020 | : As an international student during the 2016 presidential election, I had very little idea what was happening in the year that preceded it, but it all sounded too complicated.  Electoral votes, caucuses, nomination, national conventions, all were foreign concepts to me. And I vividly remember Election night. I stayed up

As an international scholar and a woman of color who worked in a higher education context and in a predominantly White university for eight years, I had my share of experiences with racial microaggressions. Microaggressions in this sense are comments that are based on stereotyping and clichés about my country of origin, my religion, and