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Karin Fischer

A freelance journalist and expert on global issues in higher ed, Karin has been writing for more than a decade about the changing relationship between American colleges and the world.

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Posted inLatitudes

A Lesson on Combating Foreign Influence

By Karin FischerNovember 25, 2019January 3, 2020

Australian universities worked with the government to draft guidelines to deal with foreign interference. What could the U.S. learn?

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Are Guns the X-Factor in International Admissions?

By Karin FischerNovember 18, 2019November 19, 2019

One of the students said she felt like she was “really in America” when she went through an active-shooter drill during orientation.

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Warnings about China’s Influence on Campus Can Unfairly Tar Chinese Students

By Karin FischerNovember 11, 2019November 11, 2019

There’s not enough nuance in discussions about Chinese students and a tendency to see them as a monolith.

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How Higher Ed Found Itself in the ‘Vortex of Politics’

By Karin FischerNovember 4, 2019November 8, 2019

Geopolitics are pervading college campuses like never before. Is that a bad thing?

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