United States

Geopolitics are reshaping global science as the United States decouples from China and aligns with India. Scholar mobility from South Korea maintains resilience while mobility from Brazil continues its steady ascent.

Mutual paranoia takes precedence over reciprocal benefit. This places at risk the robust—and successful—collaboration between Chinese and US universities, which has been a powerfully positive force for both countries.

This article summarizes dramatic for-profit enrollment growth in America in the 2000s, followed by regulatory pushback, consumer souring, and marked decline. Four possible for-profit futures are outlined.

Many universities rely on agents and recruiters. This article discusses the “crisis“ and argues that agents should in any case not be used.

Enrollment at US community colleges plunged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The enrollment decline is a particularly devastating setback for workers, because of how valuable postsecondary education has become in the US labor market.

This article provides an update on the international free tuition movement as of 2020. Through the examples of the United States and New Zealand, it shows that free tuition is a highly politicized issue used by policy makers who need to gain power.

US actions to restrict research collaboration with China in key high-tech science and technology fields is increasingly recognized as part of a tech war, if not an ideological war.

Anti-Blackness is a global and historical phenomenon, but the current racial awakening provides an important opportunity for higher education worldwide.

As a field, it may be time for study abroad to move beyond the broad rhetoric of diversity and inclusion and begin to embody and lead an antiracist agenda in international education.

While these branch campuses seem promising to many institutional administrators, leaders should be aware of the myriad challenges that they may face in setting up and continuing these ventures, especially in the current shifting global landscape.

This article presents a critical look at the challenges and advantages of exchange programs in US study abroad. It asks whether better support for exchange students could lead to more inclusivity in study abroad.

Recent surveys on the impacts of COVID-19 on international education agendas and activities in Europe and North America provide important insights into challenges as well as responses taken by the sector.

For the past 40 years, there has been a high level of collaboration in science and technology between the United States and China. This cooperation has played a key role in China’s modernization and in research that furthers the global common good.