From the NY Times: Canada is making an aggressive effort to attract highly skilled researchers from around the world, including H-1B visa holders in the United States who are coming under growing pressure because of the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration policies and cuts to research funding. The Canadian government... said it would spend more than $1 billion over the next few years to attract and retain scientists from around the world, including those at major hospitals and universities.
It also said that in coming months it would create an “accelerated pathway” for U.S. H-1B visa holders. H-1B visas are issued to highly skilled people working for American companies and are concentrated in major industries that compete for global talent, such as technology and medicine.
“As other countries constrain academic freedoms and undermine cutting-edge research, Canada is investing, and doubling down, on science,” Mélanie Joly, Canada’s Industry minister, said in written comments to the press, without explicitly mentioning the United States. In an interview with The New York Times on Tuesday, Ms. Joly said that the new money would create 100 new research chairs, by funding not just individual senior researchers at the top of those efforts, but their entire teams and labs.
...In April, Toronto’s University Healthcare Network, a major hospitals and research network, said it was recruiting 100 researchers directly from the United States. The University of Toronto, Canada’s top academic institution and one of the world’s highest-ranked universities, lured several top humanities and social sciences professors from Ivy League schools during the year.
In just the past few weeks, the University of Toronto announced it had also attracted two M.I.T. professors, of planetary science and economics, as well as a Stanford economist, Mark Duggan. Mr. Duggan will become the new director at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, which is considered Canada’s equivalent to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government...
Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/world/canada/canada-usa-immigration-h1-b-visa-talent.html.
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From the Washington Post: The dean of the University of Virginia’s business school... emerged as the top candidate in the search for the flagship’s next president ahead of a board meeting [last] Friday in Charlottesville, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Board of Visitors is scheduled to review candidates for the top job at the university, a role that has been vacant since James E. Ryan stepped down in the summer amid pressure from the Trump administration over diversity, equity and inclusion policies.The board is likely to vote to appoint Scott C. Beardsley, the dean of the Darden School of Business since 2015, as president, according to two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly...
The past year has been a challenging one for U-Va., which has been thrust into several partisan fights among state and federal officials this year. That included the Justice Department launching several probes into DEI policies and the university’s response to antisemitism. Amid the negotiations, Ryan, board member Paul Manning and others have said the Justice Department made clear that the university would risk losing its federal funding if there wasn’t a change in leadership. Ryan said he stepped down to avoid a costly fight...
Full story at https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/12/18/university-of-virginia-president-pick-spanberger/.
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