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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, Students and university-educated young people play central role in Hong Kong protests, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 day, 19 hours ago
Young, university-educated people are at the center of the unfolding struggle in Hong Kong, where protesters temporarily shut the airport earlier this week in the latest development in a summer of protests set off […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, Colleges use small grants to develop new programs and expand their study abroad capacity, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 days, 19 hours ago
Windward Community College administrators had long wanted to establish study abroad programs for students. But the small two-year college in Hawaii didn't have the infrastructure set up for it.
Things changed […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, New public charge rule has implications for higher education and students, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 4 days, 19 hours ago
The Trump administration published a final rule Monday making it harder for immigrants who have received certain public benefits such as food stamps, most forms of Medicaid and housing assistance to obtain […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, University of Queensland signs controversial $50 million agreement to fund undergraduate programs in Western civilization, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 4 days, 19 hours ago
A second Australian university has signed an agreement worth 50 million Australian dollars ($33.8 million) with a politically conservative foundation to offer programs in Western civilization, providing a rare i […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, Court orders Fordham to recognize Students for Justice in Palestine group, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 week, 3 days ago
A New York State judge has ordered Fordham University to recognize a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine as a university-sanctioned club after the dean of students, Keith Eldredge, rejected the student […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, State Department's top education official says Chinese students are welcome, but…, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 weeks, 3 days ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A senior State Department official said Tuesday that the U.S. welcomes students from China. But Marie Royce, the assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs, also said […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, Groups protest Israeli visa policies for foreign academics teaching in the West Bank, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Roger Heacock first started teaching at Birzeit University, a Palestinian institution in the occupied West Bank, in 1985. An American citizen, Heacock built a career and raised three children there. For many y […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, British universities see big jump in Chinese undergraduate applicants, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month ago
The number of Chinese students applying for undergraduate study in the United Kingdom jumped by 30 percent this year, according to data released Thursday by the Universities and Colleges Admission Service, a […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, University of Puerto Rico faces deep cuts to appropriations, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 1 week ago
The move by Alaska governor Mike Dunleavy to slash $130 million in state support for the University of Alaska in a line-item veto — an amount equivalent to 41 percent of the university’s state appropriation — […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, Colleges call for more clarity on rules requiring disclosure of foreign gifts and contracts, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 1 week ago
The Department of Education is stepping up its scrutiny of whether colleges comply with federal reporting requirements regarding disclosures of foreign gifts and contracts.
The department opened investigations […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, About 700 academics have been criminally charged in Turkey for their signatures on a petition, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 2 weeks ago
In January 2016, more than 2,000 academics signed a strongly worded petition calling for a resumption of the peace process and an end to what they described as the “deliberate massacre and deportation of Kurdish a […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, International students applying for work authorization face longer wait times, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Colleges are seeing increases in processing times for international students applying for work authorization through the Optional Practical Training, or OPT, program, leaving some students with job or internship […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, International students applying for work authorization face longer wait times, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Colleges are seeing increases in processing times for international students applying for work authorization through the Optional Practical Training, or OPT, program, leaving some students with job or internship […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, India's draft national education policy outlines an ambitious — and difficult to achieve — agenda, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 3 weeks ago
A draft national education policy released by India's government this month calls for fundamentally restructuring the country's higher education system and boosting its research capacity, doubling the […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, Two new bills take different approach to protecting U.S. research from foreign threats, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Two bills introduced within the last month seek to address foreign espionage targeting academic research as Congress continues to pay more attention to this issue and collaborations involving China and Chinese […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, Chinese officials warn students of visa problems if they come to U.S., on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 2 weeks ago
China’s Ministry of Education on Monday warned students interested in studying in the U.S. about potential difficulties getting visas from the American government.
“For some time, some of the visas for Chi […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, Panel focuses on mental health needs of international students, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 2 weeks ago
WASHINGTON — International students may be more reluctant than other students to seek mental health counseling for a wide variety of reasons, including stigmatization of mental illness in their home countries and […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, Research focuses on national policies supporting the internationalization of higher education, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 2 weeks ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A report released Wednesday at the NAFSA: Association of International Educators annual conference looks at national policies supporting the internationalization of higher education in the […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, At international education conference speakers discuss strategies for evaluating incomplete or unverifiable educational credentials from refugees, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 2 weeks ago
WASHINGTON — With the number of refugees at a record high, what should colleges and universities do to give opportunity to forcibly displaced people whose prior educational qualifications are undocumented or […]
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Elizabeth Redden wrote a new post, Professor says AU Cairo wronged him in canceling his chair after he resisted donor's demands, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 3 weeks ago
A professor at the American University in Cairo is in a dispute with the university over the cancellation of his endowed chair after, he says, he refused to accede to the requests of the original donor’s son t […]
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