Global

They came. They saw. They clustered. Now, a week after starting classes at UNC Chapel Hill, undergraduates are being sent home as coronavirus spreads on campus.

U.S. State Department designates D.C.-based office for Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes a "foreign mission" and will require reports on personnel, activities and curriculum.

Nanyang Polytechnic builds a relevant, competency-based curriculum.

Government plan envisions "top 100 universities in the world" being given permission to operate in the country.

Government will not permit their return until at least 2021.

New U.S. immigration guidance clarifies that new international students -- unlike continuing international students -- cannot come to American colleges to take a "100 percent" online course load this fall.

It is offering scholarships and more to recruit those who would have gone to the West in past years.

Two universities tell new international students not to come to U.S. to take classes remotely, as higher ed groups lobby for greater clarity -- and flexibility -- on federal policy for new students from abroad.