Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the students who will have their visas canceled include people with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and those studying in “critical fields.”

Helplessness and frustration are setting in as student applicants in China wait to see how sweeping the new U.S. action might be.

With the future of thousands of students at stake, the two sides will argue in person as the Trump administration pushes Harvard to comply with its demands.

The school has so far resisted considerable pressure from the Trump administration to enact other policy changes.

The Trump administration is trying to block Harvard from enrolling international students. A Harvard official said the move is already creating major disruptions.

Since regaining the White House, President Trump has been fixated on making an example of those who push back against him.

A campus in the city isn’t being of the city.

Threats to withhold billions in federal research funds to punish campuses grew heated after a 2019 altercation left a man with a black eye.

International students contributed $44 billion to the U.S. economy in the 2023-2024 school year. Their loss could hurt more than just universities’ bottom line.

Elite American universities have secured over $4 billion in additional debt since March that will help protect their finances as the Trump administration takes aim at their budgets.

Learn more in The N&O’s higher ed newsletter about UNC’s plans to expand its housing offerings, as it looks to enroll more students.

The legislature has invested big dollars at Montreat College, even though public schools have federally accredited cyber programs.

The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change. Curt Rice, director of the Fulbright Commission of Norway, was ready to tie a bow on this year’s cohort of Fulbright scholars back in January. Norway had selected 17 finalists for the prestigious academic exchange program sponsored by the U.S. State Department and received approval from the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to accept all of them. The country assumed that scholars would be notified by the State Department, as usual, sometime in the following month.

At a conference of international educators, there were mounting worries that an “America First” president could diminish U.S. higher education’s global preeminence.