Immigration New Zealand has rejected almost half of study visa applications from India in the first four months of 2024, as per a report by the country’s public broadcaster. Though the rejection rate has decreased from 49% in the first three months of the year, it corroborates the trend of higher refusals from India in…
The prize is sponsored by former NAFSA president and chair of the NAFSA board of directors, John Hudzik and his wife Anne, and will be awarded to individuals who have made sustained contributions to areas such as scholarship activity, administrative leadership, community engagement, and education. Candidates from anywhere in the world can be nominated, either…
From the persistent gap in this year’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid submissions to a Delaware arts college closing its doors, here are the top-line figures from some of our biggest stories of the week. By the numbers 41.5% The share of high school seniors who completed the Free Application for Federal Student…
Former President Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies in his “hush money” trial in New York yesterday, making him the first former president in U.S. history to be convicted of a crime. On their second day of deliberations, the jury found that Trump illegally falsified business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to an adult…
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Labor’s overtime rule update is unlawful, several groups business groups told a federal court on May 22, asking a judge to block the regulation just weeks before its effective date. The…
As we approach appellate oral arguments in the history-making criminal case of Uber’s ex-CISO this summer, techies, lawyers, hackers, and investors should all be worried about cybersecurity. In 2016, Uber suffered a massive data breach that impacted 50 million customers and over half a million drivers. In the first criminal prosecution of a chief information…
Dr. Mark Brown has been named the 10th president and chief executive officer at Tuskegee University. He succeeds Dr. Charlotte P. Morris. Dr. Mark Brown“I am grateful and humbled by the Board of Trustees, faculty, alumni, students, community leaders, and all of Mother Tuskegee for the opportunity to return home to lead our university into…
Every once in a while, you read something that makes you go “Ah, that’s why background checks are important!” A (thankfully) former Illinois prosecutor was fired not long after he was alleged to have made some pretty inflammatory posts on Twitter. Now, before you get all “cancel culture is our modern day scourge” over this,…
The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and its Institute for Capacity Building explore the state of mental health on Black college campuses in a new report. Julian Thompson“From Awareness to Action: The Imperative for Enhanced Mental Health Support at HBCUs” highlights five key insights. The first is that 1.) HBCUs are not immune from the…
(Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. During one dinner at our house, she took me aside to express her annoyance at commentators who were calling for her retirement. ‘The timing of a resignation is up to each justice,’ she told me….