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Title VI of the Higher Education Act creates academic and fellowship programs to serve American interests by funding the study of foreign languages and cultures, including for international commerce. Yet, most of the funding goes to “area studies” programs that work against American interests.

A new report by Scholars at Risk details tactics to silence and intimidate students and professors, as well as a climate of surveillance and self-censorship.

Four Afghan scholars have come to UC Irvine since December 2021, finding interim housing and work. But as conditions in Afghanistan continue to deteriorate, and public interest shifts to other crises, their fate is uncertain.

As many as 19 groups have addressed a letter to the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud requesting that he reconsider the apex court’s suspension of the Bombay High Court’s Nagpur bench’s order acquitting scholar and professor GN Saibaba in a Maoist-link case in which he was serving a life sentence in Nagpur jail.

Transparency is the key to managing supply chain risk. But some businesses only focus on selective financial information from their suppliers, which can

Many say this is an apparent reaction to their criticism of the government.

Manitoba’s largest university is taking steps to support those affected by the invasion of Ukraine by waiving application fees for international students who are Ukrainian citizens.

The oil and gas industry has seized the opportunity provided by Russia’s war in Ukraine to lobby for regulatory rollbacks.

An academic boycott could end up penalizing one of the country’s most moderating forces, its professors.