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CHINA WATCHBill Introduced to Ban Student Visas to Chinese Nationals
By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square
U.S. Rep. Riley Moore, R-WV, filed a bill on Friday to ban Chinese nationals from receiving student visas. “Every year we allow nearly 300,000 Chinese nationals to come to the U.S. on student visas. We’ve literally invited the CCP to spy on our military, steal our intellectual property, and threaten national security,” he said.
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CYBERSECURITY EDUCATIONUA Little Rock Secures $4.65 Million Grant to Advance Cybersecurity Education
By Angelita Faller
The grant, funded by the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) within the National Security Agency, will enable UA Little Rock to enhance its efforts in preparing high school teachers to teach cybersecurity.
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CHINA WATCHU-M Ends Partnership with Chinese University
By Elyse Apel, The Center Square
The University of Michigan has announced it will end its Joint Institute with Chinese Shanghai Jiao Tong University, following growing concerns from lawmakers about national security.
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SKILLED WORKFORCEBuilding the Skilled Technical Workforce: “I’s Very Much a Work in Progress”
By Sara Frueh
Skilled technical jobs —jobs that involve some technical knowledge — do not require a B.A. or a B.S., but almost always require some postsecondary training and education. These jobs probably make up about 5 to 10 percent of the labor force, but they are very important.
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TRUTH DECAYDisinformation Course Draws on Area Studies Expertise
What is disinformation, and how does it spread? A spring 2025 IU course, “Disinformation and the State in East Europe,” deals with these timely and important questions.
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CYBERSECURITYUniversity of Central Florida Students Secure Gold at the DOE’s 10th CyberForce Competition
By Jenna V. Wray
Students gained hands-on practical cybersecurity experience and recognition by securing a wind energy generation plant against simulated cyberattacks.
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COAST GUARDConnecting the U.S. Coast Guard to MIT Sloan
By Andrew Husband
For the past 50 years, the Coast Guard has nominated a senior officer to apply to the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA program. “When you leave MIT Sloan, you want to change the world,” says one alumnus.
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IMMIGRATIONU. of California Faces Lawsuit for Not Hiring Illegal Aliens
By Tate Miller, The Center Square
UC’s Board of Regents decided by a vote in January to suspend for one year the implementation of its policy that allowed the hiring of illegal aliens. Now, the university faces a lawsuit for not offering jobs to illegal aliens.
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TRUTH DECAYTo Make Children Better Fact-Checkers, Expose Them to More Misinformation — with Oversight
By Jason Pohl
“We need to give children experience flexing these skepticism muscles and using these critical thinking skills within this online context,” a psychology researcher said.
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STEMU.S. Needs New Strategy to Recruit and Retain STEM Talent: Report
The United States should adopt a whole-of-government strategy to recruit and retain talent in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Because foreign-born talent makes up a significant portion of the STEM workforce in the U.S., it is of critical importance to fostering and sustaining innovation, economic competitiveness, and national security.
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EXTREMISMFree Legal Helpline Has Gained Pro Bono Support from 40+ Law Firms, 250+ Individual Practitioners Since Launching in November 2023
The Campus Antisemitism Legal Line (CALL) has received more than 650 requests for assistance from university students across the country who experienced antisemitic harassment, violence or discrimination in the first nine months of the program.
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EXTREMISMUC Berkeley Making Several Changes to Combat Antisemitism This School Year
By Tate Miller, The Center Square
The University of California Berkeley is expanding its antisemitism education in the 2024-25 school year as well as banning encampments and prohibiting masking to conceal one’s identity. University leaders say that Berkeley aims to ‘address the campus culture’.
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CHINA WATCHOversight Committee Presses Federal Agencies on Plan to Shrink China's Influence
By Casey Harper, The Center Square
The Chinese government has carried out a broad effort to influence U.S. higher education through funding top universities and sponsoring Confucius Institutes at schools, though those have mostly been shut down over concerns about national security. The National Association of Scholars, though, says those institutions have been reopening with different branding.
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CHINA WATCHDecline of American Students in China Could Mean Fewer Experts
By Bo Gu
The number of Americans studying in China has dropped dramatically in recent years from around 11,000 in 2019 to 800 this year, and the slump is so bad that some China scholars worry the United States could lose a generation of “China experts” as a result.
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CYERSECURITYUniversity Students Tackle Adventure in CyberForce — Conquer the Hill Competition
University of Central Florida’s Cameron Whitehead wins CyberForce Conquer the Hill: Adventure Competition 2024. Whitehead was one of 112 students from 71 accredited U.S. colleges and universities who competed virtually to complete work-based cybersecurity tasks and challenges during a full day of energy sector-related adventure.
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