Why Is Ivy League Tuition So High? Skyrocketing Costs at Brown, Administrative Bloat, and the Silencing of a Whistleblower
Alex Shieh, a Chinese-American student journalist, recently testified before the House of Representatives, revealing a truth uncovered through big data…
Graduate Education: The “Last Card” for Ordinary Families Seeking to Break Through Entrenched Class Rigidity in China
A wave of educational expansion intended to break the ossification of society has, more than two decades later, revealed complex…
“Life Is Not a Track, but a Wilderness”：49-Year-Old Chinese American Female Professor Shatters the “Iron Rice Bowl” of U.S. Tenure
“Not having a job has been my lifelong dream. I never expected that this dream would actually come true. Today,…
Why Do Nobel Laureates Reluctantly Serve as University Presidents?
In China, about 30% of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering hold university…
Almost all Chinese Top Universities Are Headed by “STEM Men” —Has the Spirit of the Educator Already Vanished?
The presidents of China's top 39 national universities are almost exclusively from a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) background,…
China Is Bankrolling Global Science: The Hidden Costs of Open Access Publishing
In the first half of 2025, Nature Communications published around 5,400 papers, about 2,100 of them from Chinese authors—roughly 39%,…
How Did a Single Agreement from Brussels Come to Lead Global Research Assessment Reform
On July 20, 2022, a seemingly unremarkable document was released in Brussels. The Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment was jointly…
When Science Meets Power: The Unseen Politics Behind China’s and America’s Academician Systems
Today, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) simultaneously released on their official websites…
Joint Programs: China-US Media and Arts “3+1+1” Combined Undergraduate and Master’s Program
With the increasing demand for globalized education, how to shorten the time and cost of studying abroad while ensuring teaching…
The New Order in American Universities: The Trump Administration’s Path to Reshaping Higher Education
After returning to the White House following the 2024 election, the Trump administration quickly placed higher education at the center…