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• Volume 58, Issue 37: May 25, 2012

• State Department Directive Could Disrupt Confucius Institutes on Campuses

  By Karin Fischer

  A memo warns that many teachers at the centers, which are a key piece of China's diplomatic outreach, are violating their visas and must leave next month.

• U.S. May Require College Language Programs to Get Special Accreditation
• Educators Debate Rankings' Negative Effects on Latin American Universities
• Transitions: Retired Army Officer to Direct Yale Leadership Program
• Virginia Tech's Next Leader of Student Affairs Finds It a Small Campus at Heart
• Long Deferred, Campus Repairs Put Colleges in Dilemma
• At NASA, a Caltech Professor Breaks Ground for Women
• Selected New Books on Higher Education
• A Professor's Death Ripples Outward
• Audio Slide Show: A Career Marine Chooses a Different Path
• Northern Arizona U. Overhauls Curriculum to Focus on 'Global Competence'
• Celebrating a Proposal in North Carolina; Mourning a Loss in Massachusetts
• An Unusual Marriage of Engineering and Languages Draws Students to U. of Rhode Island
• President of California U. of Pennsylvania Is Fired
• Quest for College Accountability Demands Yet More Data
• For Universities Looking Abroad, Brazil Promises Opportunity and Challenge
• IRS Is Urged to Reduce Paperwork Burden on Colleges and Other Charities
• Groups Voice Concerns Over New Rules on Veterans' Education Benefits
• What Does $1-Trillion Mean? Maybe Not Much