From the Chronicle for Higher Education: ...Soon, Northwestern will have to come up with ways to teach its 9,500 international students about... the norms of free inquiry and open debate. It’s one of several provisions administrators agreed to as part of a November deal with the Trump administration to restore nearly $800 million in frozen federal research funding. International students and their advocates are at odds over whether the unusual ask will help or hurt.
...Under the terms of Northwestern’s agreement, the university must provide the government with detailed admissions data, better enforce its campus demonstration policies, and conduct a campus-climate survey that asks students how they feel the university handles antisemitism. The university will also pay the government $75 million. Northwestern, which has a sizable population of international students hailing from 120 countries, also agreed to ask foreign applicants why they want to study in the United States and, upon request, provide the government with international students’ disciplinary records...
Full story at https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-northwesterns-trump-agreement-international-students-singled-out-for-open-debate-training.
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