The war with Iran is closing U.S. branch campuses in the Middle East and prompting do-not-travel warnings for the region. But the conflict is the latest event to fray U.S. ties in a part of the world that had been a priority for many colleges www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

NEW: For updates about higher education and the war in the Middle East, @chronicle.com has started a live updates page. www.chronicle.com/article/iran...

“Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help.” -- A Columbia University neuroscience researcher who posted this on Instagram in the wake of DHS's actions on campus. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02...

Congress has restored funding for international-education and foreign-language programs slashed by the Trump administration and moved to block the executive branch from making unilateral cuts to spending www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Thirteen minority-serving institutions are among the top producers of #Fulbright program scholars and students, about 10 percent of the colleges recognized.

"This year’s conference asks us to be honest about the time we’re in," said Amir Reza of Babson, opening #AIEA2026. Want to join the conversation about the biggest issues? Join our roundtable, Real Talk about the State of #Intled, Wednesday at 9:15 a.m.

Harvard got the most foreign funds from entities in "countries of concern" like China, according to updates to a U.S. Department of Education database. Geographically savvy readers will note that the dashboard continues to list "England" as one of the largest donor countries ...

Social-media vetting by the State Department can lead international students to self-censor out of fear, a foreign student writes. “Free speech risks becoming a right defined not by principle but by immigration status.” www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Half of all undocumented graduates of American high schools could be affected by efforts, some successful, to rescind policies that allow such students to qualify for lower in-state tuition rates www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

A federal-court judge’s sanctions blocking the Trump administration from deporting pro-Palestinian campus protesters wrap up a landmark case, but they’re unlikely to mark the end of a crackdown on student- and scholar-visa holders www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

The deaths of two protesters and weeks of tension over immigration raids in Minnesota are a case study of how colleges are handling close-to-home political events in an era of institutional neutrality.

The deaths of two protesters and weeks of tension over immigration raids in Minnesota are a case study of how colleges are handling close-to-home political events in an era of institutional neutrality.

The University of Minnesota released a statement after Alex Pretti, an alumnus, was shot and killed by immigration agents during protests. No one was pleased with it. www.chronicle.com/article/afte...

A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from deporting international students and scholars over First Amendment speech. But the remedy will only apply to the members of the academic associations that brought the case, the AAUP and MESA storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Eight in 10 international students said that they would be unsure about or unwilling to come to the United States if the opportunity to stay and work after graduate is unavailable. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Can college football change Americans’ minds about higher ed? Bowl-game TV ads used to woo students and donors. Now they try to sell the public on the sector’s research prowess and community service. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Can college football change Americans’ minds about higher ed? Bowl-game TV ads used to woo students and donors. Now they try to sell the public on the sector’s research prowess and community service. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

American colleges have received nearly $6.6 billion in contracts and gifts from this country. It might not be the one you’re thinking of. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

The share of Americans who study overseas has remained stubbornly low for decades. Is allowing students to take online courses that answer to study abroad’s accessibility problem? www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

We typically thing of populist attacks on higher ed as a right-wing phenomena (e.g. Turkey, Hungary and the US), but this piece is also good and showing how Amlo's left-wing populist government in Mexico operated in much the same manner. doi.org/10.1017/S153...

News of campus gun violence, like the shooting at Brown, can reinforce perceptions among foreign students and families that the U.S. is a dangerous place. When it comes to safety, the U.S. consistently trails other major destination countries in surveys www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

NEWS: The White House has released an expanded travel ban. Notably, the partial travel restrictions on several countries include student visas — including Nigeria, which is among the top 10 sending countries to U.S. colleges www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Federal cuts have disrupted academic research agendas and hurt Ph.D. enrollments. Another potential casualty: the web of businesses that undergird academic science. For @chronicle.com a look at companies that are the architecture that supports American research www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Federal cuts have disrupted academic research agendas and hurt Ph.D. enrollments. Another potential casualty: the web of businesses that undergird academic science. For @chronicle.com a look at companies that are the architecture that supports American research www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Trump administration policies, including visa delays and social-media vetting, have dented international enrollments. Now one university may be moving to enact its own ban on students from China, Iran, and other “adversarial’ countries www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Indian students pursuing master's degrees have been the post-pandemic engine of international-enrollment growth for U.S. colleges. But there's an ongoing challenge to recruiting these price-conscious students: an American degree is far more expensive

Anxiety is high about the potentially deleterious effects of American-government policy on international enrollments. But there’s a sleeper issue that should keep U.S. college officials up at night: cost www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Northwestern University is the latest college to agree to review its international-admission policies as part of a deal with the Trump administration to restore federal research funding www.chronicle.com/article/trac...

The U.S. Department of Education has set up a new portal for colleges to report gifts and contracts from foreign sources, an effort, the department said, to improve transparency. The new site will go live on January 2. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

Asia and the Middle East are home to the largest number of international branch campuses, with China leading the way. The 50 outposts it hosts include high-profile names like NYU and Duke, as well as others that have flown under the radar. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Despite rising geopolitical tensions and increased nationalism, the U.S. has more satellite campuses around the world than any other country. Where the most campuses are may surprise you. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

OPT, the work program for recent foreign grads of U.S. colleges, has grown so much over the past decade that it can obscure year-to-year shifts in international enrollments.

After two years in a row of declines in new international students, the post-Covid enrollment boom looks, in hindsight, like a bubble. An unfriendly political climate contributed to an estimated 17-percent drop in new enrollments in the U.S. this fall www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

The U.S. Department of State will take over administration of the Fulbright-Hays program and other international-education and foreign-language programming being spun off from the Department of Education in a sweeping restructuring. www.state.gov/releases/off...

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New international enrollments dropped 7 percent LAST fall. Don’t dismiss the adverse effects of Trump administration policies like visa revocations or a foreign-student cap. But they’re compounding existing challenges, not the sole cause. www.chronicle.com/article/inte...

Is President Trump a @chronicle.com reader? 🤔 From Aug 4: "Arguments that emphasize the economic impact of foreign students ... would appear tailor-made for the country’s businessman-in-chief." Trump on Fox, Nov 10: "We take in trillions of dollars from students ... I view it as a business."

President Donald J. Trump, booster of international students?! “I actually think it’s good to have outside countries. I want to be able to get along with the world.” www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Is #AI coming to international admissions — or is it already here? A recent survey by found a big jump in the usage of ChatGPT or other forms of artificial intelligence among prospective foreign students who use it to decide both where and what to study.

College leaders in other countries are anxiously watching as the Trump administration puts pressure on American institutions. Their concern: Are we next? “How long willit be before that storm hits us,” said a former university president. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

*I will not pull out my hair everytime I see one of these un-nuanced analyses. Because then I would be bald.

I may pull my hair out of if I see one more news outlet report on a decline in the number of international students coming to the U.S. and equate it to the number of new students: www.nytimes.com/video/upshot.... It's only PART of the picture, as I spell out here. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

A popular work program for recent international graduates of American colleges may be pulled into the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Study abroad improves communication skills but perhaps not the ones you’d think: in a survey of alumni, 85 percent said they picked up “communication and interpersonal skills” while 59 percent said they gained foreign-language skills.

I set out to report a straightforward article about the consequences of disruption in student-visa issuances this summer on international-student enrollments this fall and into the future. It was anything but. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Student-visa holders and others who switch their legal status within the United States won’t have to pay a new $100,000 fee on skilled-worker visas. www.uscis.gov/working-in-t...

International students fill college classrooms, staff research labs, and enrich campus culture. What would it mean for a university if they are gone? My latest on what's at stake if international enrollments tumble: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

The Department of Education's recent program cuts to critical and less commonly taught languages, area studies, and global business education, is raising questions about the future of federal support for international education under the current president www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Data on international students this fall is trickling out. But rather than providing clarity about the impact of visa delays and travel restrictions on enrollments, the figures paint a confusing and sometimes contradictory picture. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

A union representing 40,000 higher-education workers said that the Trump administration has made international students and scholars at Harvard University “collateral damage” in its effort to the revoke the university’s academic-visa certification. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70684...