Amid federal funding cuts, the enrollment of both domestic and foreign students is falling at American colleges and universities.
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The ranking industry is targeting universities in Africa, which are seen as offering a new market.
Writers have mined the region’s turbulent political history to explore how authoritarian rulers bend institutional leaders to their will.
Harvard University is the latest school that is nearing an expensive settlement with the Trump administration. The different deals are complex, but share a few similarities.
While Columbia University can afford to pay the government $200 million in order to unfreeze federal grants and contracts it was awarded, many other universities and colleges could not.
The Trump administration isn’t resorting to official censorship. Instead, it’s using less blatant – and more effective – ways to suppress dissent.
The Trump administration has clashed with elite private universities and threatened to pull their funding. But most college students don’t attend these institutions.
Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.
When the world order is being undermined, we must denounce attempts by states that see themselves as empires to intimidate other states and devalue the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Lawful permanent residents hold many of the same rights that US citizens have, but the government can deport them on certain, often vague, security grounds.
It’s now clear that tensions in academia regarding concerns about Israel’s relationship with the Palestinian people aren’t limited to campus protests.
Student-led protests in response to US engagement in the Vietnam War mounted in the 1960s and led to a group called the Weather Underground that believed in direct confrontation with the state.
Police and military violence against student protesters in the 1960s was draconian, now questions are being asked about the police operations today.
Almost 56 years to the day after the anti-war protests in 1968, New York City police evicted Columbia University students from an on-campus occupation.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
While most colleges and universities have their own police units, some schools, like Columbia University, have only private security − and then can call in outside police when they feel it is needed.
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