Global Education

The State Board of Higher Education is working to tighten admission policies for international students after fake transcripts and bogus degrees came to light at Dickinson State University.

A UW-Madison faculty committee is recommending major changes to the structure of UW-Madison’s international programs and suggests that campus leaders eliminate the main organizing body: The Division of International Studies.

New Dickinson State students from more than 20 states and most foreign countries will be affected by the change. Those students will pay 150 percent of the tuition rate charged to North Dakota residents. Under current policy, they would normally pay 125 percent of the resident rate.

Morgan State University is establishing a student exchange program with Hubei University in China.

For the last decade, USC has enrolled the largest number of international students of any college in the country: 8,615 last year.

Seven University of Wisconsin System campuses pay foreign agencies to help them recruit international students, sometimes spending more than $1,000 per student, according to a State Journal survey of the 13 four-year campuses and the System's two-year colleges.

Hearkening back to Cold War anxieties, growing signs of spying on U.S. universities are alarming national security officials.

Plans to open a UW-Madison office in China by mid-June are on track, university officials say.

Yale announced a year ago that it was creating the “first new college to bear the Yale name in 300 years” at the National University of Singapore, and last week, after reviewing 2,500 applications, it sent out the first handful of faculty job offers for Yale-N.U.S. College.

Tulane University officials signed an agreement Wednesday to help leaders at an Iraqi university develop what will be that country's only school of public health. There is no schedule yet for completing the school at the University of Wasit in Al Kut City, said Dr. Pierre Buekens, dean of Tulane's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.