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Tag: China
COVID-19
First Come, First Served: Older Adults and Lessons from a Global Pandemic
Italy and China provide invaluable lessons. Italy’s overwhelmed healthcare system applied a triage strategy that prioritized its young persons. We submit that now is the time to prioritize our older adults before it is too late.
March 31, 2020
COVID-19
Notre Dame Student Removed From Program After Racist Coronavirus Posts
A postdoctoral student at the University of Notre Dame has been terminated from her program after she wrote racist posts on Facebook blaming Chinese students for the spread of the coronavirus, reported campus newspaper, The Observer. Kathryn Ralph, a sixth-year student at the university, posted statements on her Facebook page last Wednesday, saying Chinese students […]
March 30, 2020
Asian American Pacific Islander
The President’s Diversity Values Stink
While there is no vaccine for COVID-19 we do have a vaccine for the ignorance of xenophobia. It’s called knowledge. President Trump can use a little of that right now, instead of shooting from the lip as he did numerous times on live television last week.
March 24, 2020
COVID-19
U of Minnesota Suspends A Program After Controversial Coronavirus Skit
The University of Minnesota removed a student from his leadership position at a student program, and then suspended the program, after he directed a controversial skit depicting the coronavirus turning people into zombies, reported Minnesota Daily. What happened was that, in February, students performed a skit that depicted people turning into zombies after a student […]
March 19, 2020
Asian American Pacific Islander
UAlbany Asian Students Call for Investigation of Coronavirus-Themed Party
Asian students and members of the University of Albany Asian American Alliance are requesting that the Dean of Student Office “investigates” a coronavirus-themed party hosted by students at the University of Albany over the weekend. In a statement posted to Instagram, the Asian American Alliance wrote, “As members of the Asian community on campus, your […]
February 18, 2020
News Roundup
Report: International Enrollments at Graduate Schools on the Rise
International graduate application and first-time enrollment rates have increased at U.S. universities for the first time since fall 2016, reported the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS).
February 12, 2020
African-American
How Should Asian Americans Respond to Asian Racism?
Asian racism is an especially touchy subject for Asian Americans. For every effort to denounce the attitudes overseas comes the inevitable backlash of “Who are you to judge us?”
December 16, 2019
Opinion
Trump Backs Protesting Students….In China
The protests that delayed this year’s Harvard-Yale game were enough to break some news the weekend before Thanksgiving. Climate change is a big deal. And if the nation’s top schools with a combined endowment worth $70 billion did something about it, maybe higher ed could set an example for the country, if not the world.
December 3, 2019
News Roundup
University of Kansas Professor Charged With Fraud in FBI Probe
After an FBI investigation, University of Kansas researcher Dr. Feng “Franklin” Tao faces federal charges, KWCH12 reported. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, he was indicted for hiding that he was working full time with Fuzhou University in China while doing research funded by the U.S. government. Tao is an associate professor at the university’s […]
August 21, 2019
News Roundup
Feds Investigating Cornell’s Ties to Qatar and China
When President Donald Trump welcomed the emir of Qatar to Washington with a lavish Treasury Department dinner, the guest list included the president of Georgetown University, one of six U.S. schools that operate branch campuses in the country, according to a report in The Ithaca Journal. But while Trump was praising Qatar at the event […]
July 11, 2019
News Roundup
Senate Investigators Concerned About China’s Involvement in Over 100 U.S. Colleges
Senate investigators have voiced their concern about China having opened government-run centers at over 100 American college campus, putting more than $158 million into Confucius Institutes that spread Chinese influence while being significantly unmonitored by the U.S. government. According to a new bipartisan report from the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, China’s government “controls nearly […]
March 3, 2019
News Roundup
UC Admins Warn Students, Faculty not use Messaging Apps While in China
University of California administrators have warned students and faculty not to use WeChat and WhatsApp messaging apps and social media while in China, citing concerns that any communications could be used against them by China’s law enforcement agencies. The suggestion comes following recent arrests of Huawei executive Meng Wangzhou and American Paul Whelan, who was […]
January 14, 2019
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