International higher education

Washington U. in St. Louis offers an elite group of international students a graduate education -- and sends professors home with them.

Academic and civil liberties groups seek documents to explain why some leading scholars are kept out of U.S.

Foreign enrollments in U.S. see slight drop while record number of American students study abroad.

Experts on panel say attracting foreign students must be a national priority.

New grant aims to help African teachers harness power of the Internet to try to educate a struggling continent.

OECD and Unesco propose new safeguards against the export of low-quality higher education.

Secretaries of State and Education invite college presidents to private meeting to consider ways to promote exchanges.

On Thursday, President Bush and a bevy of government officials -- including the secretaries of state, education and defense -- announced a wide ranging plan to enhance the foreign language skills of American students.

Several college leaders applauded attention to an area that many view as underdeveloped in the United States. At the same time, others said that they needed more details about the plan -- few of which were released -- and some have expressed concern over the large Pentagon role in it.

Pacific Lutheran U. gets a leg up in international education, with students studying on every continent at the same time.

10 leading universities worldwide -- including Berkeley and Yale from U.S. -- create partnership designed to move beyond typical exchanges.