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Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri has been freed from a Texas detention centre after he was arrested as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on activists across college campuses. A federal judge ordered the release of Mr Suri, who was a postdoctoral fellow at the prestigious Washington DC institution on a student visa. An...

Stanford is one of the leading universities in the Unites States and naturally that makes it a target for China. I’ve written about China’s attempts to infiltrate American universities before. Back in January 2020, the head of Harvard’s chemistry department, Dr. Charles Lieber, was arrested for lying about his connections to a Chinese program that...

You would never know it, given my writings here, but I used to be an enthusiastic, totally unabashed believer in higher education.  I thought that, for all its flaws and quirks, American higher education institutions contributed far more to society than the trouble they caused and the expense they cost.  What a difference a few...

Members of Columbia University’s History Department have sent a letter to the university president and Board of Trustees, urging resistance against the Trump administration’s attempts to influence university policy. Their letter follows reports that Columbia is nearing a deal to acquiesce to the Trump administration’s demands — which include a major crackdown on pro-Palestine protesters...