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Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Rule Penalizes Native Language Speakers

An Education Department regulation penalizes Fulbright-Hays applicants if they grew up speaking the language of their proposed country for research. Lawsuits have followed.

โ€œAt first, I was just in disbelief,โ€ Veronica Gonzalez, a doctoral student at the University of California-Irvine, recalled in an interview. โ€œThen I was incensed.โ€

A Title IX Legacy Beyond the United States: More Olympians For Canada and Europe

A federal law opened doors for millions of American women. It also made the United States an incubator for womenโ€™s national teams worldwide.

Sini Karjalainen of Finland plays with the University of Vermont Catamounts womenโ€™s ice hockey team. She is also a member of the Finnish national ice hockey team.

Harvard Reverses Course on Human Rights Advocate Who Criticized Israel

News that the university had blocked a fellowship for the former head of Human Rights Watch stirred debate over academic freedom and donor influence.

Kenneth Roth, the former director of Human Rights Watch, in New York last April. The Harvard Kennedy School recently reversed its early decision to reject his fellowship application because of his criticisms of Israel.
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