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Crime
Harvard students stage walkout in front of professor accused of sexual harassment
Over 100 students marched out of a Harvard classroom on Tuesday to protest the first lecture of professor John L. Comaroff this year. Comar...
Ryan General
Education
Vanderbilt professor says math education is too ‘white, cisheteropatriarchal’
A Tennessee university professor recently made the case that undergraduate mathematics education is discriminatory against queer and transge...
China
Chinese students made to sign ‘loyalty pledges’ to CCP before going to Sweden, report reveals
Several Swedish universities reportedly discovered that over two dozen doctoral students from China were made to sign an agreement pledging ...
Bryan Ke
UC Davis professor accused of sexually assaulting high school student
A University of California (UC) Davis professor was placed on administrative leave after he was accused of sexually assaulting a high school...
Michelle De Pacina
Vietnamese university, military school deny sexual assault and suicide of female students during retreat
A university and a military school in Vietnam have denied rumors of sexual assault and suicide involving female students in mandatory traini...
Carl Samson
College student develops new app that detects AI-written essays
A university student has developed an app that can detect if a written work was authored by the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT...
Business
Asia’s richest man regrets not completing college: ‘My abilities may have been faster’
Before you read: Indian college dropout becomes world’s third richest man While sitting on Forbes’ list as Asia’s richest man, Indian entrep...
Purdue University’s first Asian American president takes office amid controversy over Northwest chancellor
Dr. Mung Chiang officially became the first Asian American president of Purdue University at the start of the new year. The Purdue Board of ...
Stanford pulls IT language guide that brands ‘American,’ ‘brave’ as ‘harmful’ words
Amid massive backlash within and beyond its academic community, Stanford University has backpedaled on a language initiative that deemed wor...
Death of Princeton student who was reported missing ruled a suicide
Princeton University student Misrach Ewunetie, whose dead body was found behind a secluded campus tennis court on Oct. 20, was determined to...
Ines Shin
Civil Rights
UNC-Chapel Hill removes racial criterion for fellowship program limited to BIPOC amid civil rights complaint
After a civil rights complaint, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) removed a fellowship program criterion th...
Purdue Northwest faculty votes no-confidence in chancellor for mock Asian language
The faculty and staff of Purdue Northwest have cast an overwhelming vote of no-confidence in Chancellor Thomas Keon’s leadership. The chanc...
Pfizer beats suit claiming anti-Asian, anti-white discrimination in fellowship program
A federal lawsuit alleging that pharmaceutical company Pfizer is discriminating against Asian and white applicants for a coveted fellowship...
Chinese Berklee student arrested for stalking, harassing pro-democracy peer
Before you read: Chinese students filmed shouting at Japanese student, blocking his presentation on Taiwan at a UK university ...
Chandler Treon
Purdue University Northwest chancellor under fire for mock Asian accent
Purdue University Northwest Chancellor Thomas L. Keon has come under fire for a racist joke and accent used during the school’s commencemen...
Daniel Anderson
Economy
Asian nations dominate ranking of countries with most international students at US universities
Students from Asia ranked in the top 10 among the number of international students studying at universities in the U.S. According to the I...
Khier Casino
Feature
Crying father drops off daughter at dream college in wholesome viral video
A now-viral Instagram video posted by Preksha (@pre.xsha) on Wednesday shows her overjoyed parents dropping her off at Miranda House Colleg...
Isa Peralta
News
12-year-old math and music prodigy in Singapore is already taking up 2 college degrees
Nathanael Koh, 12, of Singapore, has caught national attention for pursuing two bachelor’s degrees in separate institutions simultaneously....
GOP lawmakers demand investigation over Google’s Ph.D. Fellowship for discrimination against Asian, white students
Republican Representatives Chip Roy (R, TX-21), Mary Miller (R, IL-15) and Bob Good (R, VA-5) wrote to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardon...
Renaming of University of Oxford college after Vietnamese billionaire ‘Madame Thao’ now ‘in doubt’
Last year, Linacre College announced that it would be changing its name to Thao College after Vietnam’s first and only woman billionaire af...
Mandatory ‘love education’ course for college students gains support in China
The Chinese Ministry of Education has expressed support for a lawmaker’s proposal to include “love and marriage” values in the curriculum f...
Vigil held in honor of Purdue University student found murdered in his dorm room
Hundreds of Purdue University students gathered around their campus’ "Unfinished Block P" statue on Wednesday evening to honor 20...
Indonesia
Indonesian university apologizes for discriminating against non-binary new student
Hasanuddin University, located in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province, has come under fire after a viral video showed a faculty member dism...
University in China bans professor whose wife alleges he beat her over 1,000 times
Tang Ping, a 31-year-old mother of two in Nanning, China, posted photos and medical records on social media as alleged evidence of the time...
Viral
Singaporean student wowing British quiz show viewers could identify every country, their capitals at age 6
“University Challenge” contestant Maximilian Zeng has become a social media darling for his impressive performance on the British quiz show...
Supreme Court to hear cases alleging Harvard, UNC admissions discriminates against Asian students
The Supreme Court agreed to hear cases on the consideration of race as a factor in college admissions at Harvard University and the Univers...
Editorial Staff
‘We are systematically not represented’: Alumni group pushes for Dartmouth’s first AAPI studies department
In early December, Dartmouth’s Asian Pacific American Alumni Association (DAPAAA) announced that it will start a fund to be put towards an ...
Jiselle Lee
Mother in China criticized for taking 6-year-old to postgraduate exam so he could ‘feel the atmosphere’
A mother in China took her 6-year-old son to witness “gaokao” — China’s annual college entrance examinations — so he could “feel the a...
Harvard says no need for SAT, ACT scores for applicants through 2026
Harvard University will not require SAT and ACT scores from undergraduate applicants until 2026, according to an official announcement relea...
University of Maryland draws controversy for separating Asian students from ‘students of color’
The University of Maryland drew backlash over its enrollment and admissions graphic that separated Asian students from “Students of Co...
24-year-old who recently earned his master’s from University of Chicago is shot, killed in Hyde Park
Friends and community members gathered on Wednesday evening to light candles and leave notes and flowers in an area in Hyde Park where a Uni...
Chinese UMich professor causes student uproar after showing movie featuring blackface actor
World-renowned University of Michigan (UM) music professor Bright Sheng faced backlash from students after he showed his fall seminar class ...
Canada
Sri Lankan grandma makes history as oldest master’s degree earner at Canada’s York University
A Sri Lankan grandma has just earned her master’s degree from a Canadian university at the age of 87. Just a number: Varatha Shanmugan...
University of Oxford graduate college to be renamed for Vietnam’s richest woman
A University of Oxford college is planning on changing its name to Thao College after receiving £155 million from a Vietnamese investment gr...
Vietnamese language courses offered at Ivy Leagues Brown and Princeton for the first time ever
Two Ivy League universities are offering beginning and intermediate Vietnamese courses for the first time in their history. About the course...
16-Year-Old Student Becomes Youngest University of Toronto Graduate in 40 Years
A 16-year-old is set to become the youngest student to graduate from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences in at ...