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Scholars and political leaders describe increasing concerns about Chinese government influence over teaching and research in the U.S. and Australia.

Concept may have been the most ambitious plan by a foreign university to build a branch campus in the U.S.

A Western-style university in Russia is hamstrung as authorities keep denying its license to teach.

Most Dutch universities are missing goals for hiring increased share of female faculty members.

A departmental committee told a professor he had to teach Judith Butler in his class in the name of gender balance. He refused. As for Butler, she doesn’t want her work forced on him.

The repression of academics in Turkey is worsening, writes Scott McLemee, who describes the growing international protest on behalf of such scholars and how one might join it.

Max Planck is latest European institution to embrace hiring strategy that limits certain openings to female candidates.

New book looks at “who changes, how much and into what” with influx of Chinese students into U.S. universities and at the underground learning networks students cultivate.