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The tide may be turning for the Chinese government-funded centers of Chinese language and cultural education as universities grapple with calls from Washington to close the institutes down. Over past year at least 10 have closed or announced plans to close.

Pilot project seeks to eliminate bias.

State Department reverses long-standing policy against working with commissioned international recruiting agents, will welcome them at EducationUSA events.

Some fear that institutions are too focused on tuition revenue.

An international conference on elearning raises familiar issues and asks familiar questions.

Critics of the university's Saudi ties say they are disappointed but not giving up.

Country plans shift away from evaluating faculty members only on research metrics. Move would also make it possible to be hired on the basis of teaching.

Scholars say their field is coming under increasing pressures from forces outside the academy who want to delegitimize it.