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Inside the Harvard-Trump showdown
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Inside the Harvard-Trump showdown

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: The Trump administration wants to decide who teaches and what gets taught at Harvard. What could possibly go wrong? Ian Bremmer talks with Harvard Kennedy School professor Stephen Walt about what’s at stake on Quick Take.

​A statue of McGill University founder James McGill is seen on the campus in Montreal, October 2, 2009.
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Trouble on the northern border

In recent years, Canadian universities and colleges have increasingly relied on foreign students, who pay higher tuition than Canadians, to deal with funding shortfalls.

​The logo of the Australian National University (ANU) is seen at the campus in Canberra, Wednesday, September 16, 2020. The Australian National University (ANU) says COVID-19 will force it to shed hundreds of jobs from its workforce. Estimates put the total job losses at 465, including 250 voluntary redundancies.
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Australia to cut number of foreign students

Australia this week became the latest country to take measures to restrict immigration, as the government announced a fresh cap on the number of foreign students it will admit for study at universities and vocational schools.

Namat “Minouche” Shafik
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Columbia University President steps down

Columbia University President Namat “Minouche” Shafik announced late Wednesday she is stepping down after just one year in the position, making her the third Ivy League president to resign this year in the wake of Gaza-related protests.

View of McGill University campus.
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HARD NUMBERS: Anglophone universities clobbered, Mountie turncoat sentenced, Tech workers poached, Immigration minister “pissed,” Oldest American celebrated

FILE PHOTO: People walk on the grounds of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 9, 2020. Picture taken September 9, 2020.
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Ottawa caps visas for foreign students

The Trudeau government is shutting the door to hundreds of thousands of foreign students.

ChatGPT on campus: How are universities handling generative AI?
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ChatGPT on campus: How are universities handling generative AI?

What does education look like in a world with generative AI? In this episode of GZERO AI, Taylor Owen, professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University and director of its Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy, discusses how the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools have thrown a new dynamic into his teaching practice, and shares his insights into how colleges have attempted to handle the new phenomenon.

​University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill testifies before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in Washington.
US & Canada

A bad case of “academentia” that needs to be cured

University presidents should not have to duck behind talking points and prepared statements to answer a basic question about human decency. Higher education should not mean lower common sense.