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Biden administration expands popular work program for foreign students
It's one of a number of policy changes aimed at attracting and retaining global talent.
Government re-opens channel for dialogue with international educators
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will reestablish an advisory council to provide guidance and feedback to top government officials on education-related issues.
Big questions for the new year in international education
Will a hybrid approach to international education stick? Can international education diversify? Will the pandemic help make the case for internationalization?
Changes to student visas are on the horizon
Student-visa fees could increase under a proposed rule and the State Department gives consular officers greater discretion to assess students’ ties to their home countries.
New warnings about research collaboration with China
Plus, the latest from Capitol Hill and a pledge on internationalization.
A legislative fix on overseas recruitment
The U.S. House has passed legislation that would make fixes to a veterans training bill that appeared to bar incentive-based compensation in international-student recruitment.
What more could colleges be doing for refugees?
A coalition of higher-education and humanitarian-assistance groups seeks to make colleges refugee students’ official sponsors, responsible not just for their educational needs but their financial, logistical, and social ones, too.
A ‘new reality’ for study abroad
Covid might not continue to be a crisis for study abroad on par with the last couple of years, but it will still affect students’ overseas experiences.
‘It’s an emergency’
The issue of climate change has moved from the periphery to mainstream discussion within international education, but at the same time, the crisis is worsening.
A year of unprecedented declines
International enrollments fell 15 percent in fall 2020, the largest one-year tumble in the 72 years the Institute of International Education has been publishing the annual international-student census.