Harvard University ranks as nation’s worst school for free speech in new report

Harvard University was ranked the worst school in the U.S. for free speech in 2023, according to an annual report by the nonprofit group Fou...

Late composer Ryuichi Sakamoto to be honored in free online series from UMass

The University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst Fine Arts Center is honoring the late legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto with a fr...

Foundation to donate $1 million for San Diego State University’s Asian studies

The Charles Wei-hsun Fu Foundation has recently announced its plan to give a $1 million gift to San Diego State University’s (SDSU) Center f...

Discrimination during pandemic significantly harmed Asian American students’ mental health: study

The mental health of Asian American students was significantly harmed due to the rise of anti-Asian discrimination fueled by the COVID-19 pa...

Asian American students less likely to be accepted to universities than white applicants: study

Asian Americans are less likely to be accepted to colleges or universities than white applicants, according to a recent study published by t...

US Department of Energy sets $37 million to boost research capacity of minority institutions

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a $37 million fund to boost research capacity in 44 historically underrepresented institut...

Coalition of Asian American Student Organizations denounces SCOTUS affirmative action ruling in letter

The Coalition of Asian American Student Organizations (CAASO) released a letter expressing its opposition to the Supreme Court’s decis...

Meet Harvard’s first Chinese teacher: Ko K’un-hua

Meet Ko K’un-hua (Ge Kunhua), a Chinese scholar who became Harvard University’s first Chinese instructor during the late 19th century ...

UK to limit student admission to ‘low value’ degrees that don’t lead to jobs

Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson characterized the measures as “an attack on the aspirations of young people” ...

University of Texas Police Department swears in first Asian American, woman chief

Eve Stephens made history on Wednesday after she was sworn in as chief of the University of Texas at Austin Police Department, making her th...

Alumnus charged for stabbing 3 in gender studies class at Canadian university in ‘hate attack’

A graduate of the University of Waterloo in Canada has been hit with multiple charges over a stabbing rampage during a gender studies class ...

Chinese students post unflattering graduation photos to reflect reality of China’s job market

Instead of holding flowers or throwing their caps into the air, Chinese graduates are posting photos of themselves lying on the ground to re...

National University of Singapore becomes first Asian university to reach top 10 of QS World University Rankings

A renowned university in Singapore has recently been named one of the top 10 universities in the world and the best institution in Asia. Key...

Study: Most Asian Americans agree with affirmative action, but not for college admissions

Only one in five Asian adults believe race and ethnicity should be a factor in college admissions decisions, according to a new study from t...

SDSU to offer first-of-its-kind K-pop dance course with Dr. Chuyun Oh

San Diego State University (SDSU) will be launching a first-of-its-kind K-pop dance course in the Fall 2023 semester with author and associa...

Filipino student faces scrutiny after claiming he was admitted to 30 universities in US, UK

A 20-year-old student in the Philippines recently made headlines after claiming on social media that he had been accepted into 30 different ...

‘Seafood bar for dinner’: Harvard student has TikTok users salivating over school’s dining hall food

A TikTok user has recently gone viral for documenting her meals at Harvard University, from brunch, lunch and dinner to late-night snacks. E...

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma joins Tokyo College as visiting professor

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma has accepted an invititation to become a visiting professor at Tokyo College, a new research institute run by th...

Chancellor who made racist joke draws outrage with announcement he will ‘transition to faculty’

Thomas Keon, who is currently serving as the chancellor of Purdue Northwest (PNW), announced he would be transitioning to faculty next year,...

Student with 2 published books, 4.2 GPA and 1560 SAT score rejected by Harvard, MIT, Yale and Princeton

A high school student with two successful books, a 4.2 GPA, an SAT score of 1560 out of 1600 and a slew of other accolades was purportedly r...

Harvard to offer its first-ever Tagalog language course in its nearly 400-year history

Harvard University will be offering a course on the Tagalog language for the first time in its history, starting in the 2023 to 2024 academi...

Harvard admits record number of Asian American applicants amid SCOTUS affirmative action fight

Amid allegations of bias against Asian students in its admissions process, Harvard University welcomed its largest proportion of Asian Ameri...

Chinese colleges give students a week off to ‘go fall in love’

Nine colleges in China are giving students a weeklong spring break to “enjoy love” amid China’s declining birth rate. The schools, which are...

Michigan university accused of racism for holding ‘segregated’ graduation events

Grand Valley State University (GVSU), a public university in Allendale, Michigan, is being accused of racism for organizing complementary gr...

Texas bill proposes barring Chinese and N. Korean citizens from attending universities

On Friday, State Rep. Tony Tinderholt introduced a bill to ban undocumented immigrants, along with citizens from China and North Korea, from...

Pair wanted for 2 sexual assaults in 2 days at University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma (OU) police are searching for two suspects in two separate sexual assaults that occurred on campus last week. The fir...

Columbia becomes first Ivy League school to end standardized testing for admissions

Columbia University has scrapped its standardized testing requirement for undergraduate applicants, becoming the first Ivy League institutio...

Loyola University Chicago drops race criteria for ‘diverse’ surgery internship program

Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine has reportedly removed racial requirements from an internship program that appeared t...

Brenda Song says she had ‘no hesitation’ choosing ‘The Suite Life’ over Harvard

Disney alum Brenda Song recently recalled choosing “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” over attending Harvard University.  In an interview w...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...