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Our institution has been fortunate enough to partner with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and InsideTrack to improve student enrollment, completion, and career readiness, and foster equitable pathways to employment. This HBCU Transformation Project is the first-of-its-kind collaboration that aims to increase Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ (HBCU) health and sustainability, improve student outcomes…

UPDATED (June 5, 2024): VICTORY! The eSafety commissioner dropped her legal action against X for refusing to globally suppress content that allegedly violates Australian law. The decision comes a few weeks after an Australian court refused to extend a temporary global takedown order, and just nine days after the court granted FIRE and the Electronic Frontier Foundation leave to…

As part of a five-point plan to reduce net migration figures, MAC was commissioned by the home secretary in March 2024 to rapidly review the situation regarding the UK’s Graduate Student Visa and deduce whether this route to legal entry into the UK was being abused by individuals who largely subsequently entered into low paying…

The project will examine the key factors supporting the future success of Welsh institutions’ international activity – across both further and higher institutions – and will bring together a network of experts from Wales, the wider UK and beyond to produce a series of recommendations.  The project will be funded by HEFCW, and later Wales’ new…

In person study abroad increased by 218% on the previous year and total numbers (including online study abroad) reached 66,007 in 2023, according to new data from the Japan Association of Overseas Studies.  Last year, prime minister Kishida said that young people studying abroad was “the key to transforming society,” announcing ambitious new targets to send 500,000…

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles filed a class-action complaint against six major publishers, alleging that several of their policies violate antitrust law and impede academic research. The class-action lawsuit, filed Thursday…

Student newsrooms at select historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) can expect thousands in additional monetary support soon thanks to an initiative at Howard University. Members of The Hilltop pose with a check from Howard University’s Center for Journalism & Democracy, from which fund will go toward technology and staff for the newsroom.Elijah Pittman“HBCU student…