CONAHEC News and Information

Tuesday, Apr. 30, 2024

The music was thumping, the glasses were clinking and François-Philippe Champagne was in the garden talking passionately about critical minerals.

Champagne — Canada’s minister of innovation, science and industry — visited Washington in recent days for a series of meetings that spanned the festivities of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. His trip was not entirely recreational: One of the senior-most members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, Champagne is a leader of the “Team Canada” task force that is preparing for the American presidential election in November.

Thursday, Mar. 28, 2024

A few days ago, I watched a video of myself talking in perfect Chinese. I’ve been studying the language on and off for only a few years, and I’m far from fluent. But there I was, pronouncing each character flawlessly in the correct tone, just as a native speaker would. Gone were my grammar mistakes and awkward pauses, replaced by a smooth and slightly alien-sounding voice. “My favorite food is sushi,” I said—wo zui xihuan de shiwu shi shousi—with no hint of excitement or joy.

Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2024

Former President Trump has focused relentlessly on illegal immigration as a centerpiece of his campaign for the White House, just as when he first ran in 2016.

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” he has said of undocumented migrants, using language redolent of the racist doctrines of Adolf Hitler.

He promises to launch “the biggest domestic deportation campaign in American history” on Day One of his new presidency.

Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2024

Last year, 18 percent of Stanford University seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the same period at MIT, that rate went up from 23 percent to 42 percent. These increases are common everywhere: The average number of undergraduate CS majors at universities in the U.S. and Canada tripled in the decade after 2005, and it keeps growing. Students’ interest in CS is intellectual—culture moves through computation these days—but it is also professional.

Thursday, Mar. 21, 2024

MEXICO CITY —  

When Reina Cervantes Trejo heard the truck, gears grinding as it climbed the street to her house, she rushed outside.

“Thanks to our good Lord!” she said. “The water has finally arrived!”

Cervantes and her husband hurried to help the driver, Fredy Romero, as he yanked hoses from the truck to fill up a cistern and a hodgepodge of plastic buckets, pails and kitchen pots the couple had assembled on their patio.

 

Monday, Mar. 18, 2024

An economic crisis in Nigeria that has led to a big drop in applications has been blamed by some institutions for tipping them into the red

For more information, please click on this link: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/universities-to-cut-courses-and-staff...

Monday, Mar. 11, 2024

Last year, I drove south from Mexico City, along the highway toward Apango, a modest hillside town in the state of Guerrero. The highway ends at Acapulco, but there were no palm trees and no glamour where I was going. I turned onto a silent two-lane road, and drove past villages where indigenous languages such as Nahuatl are still spoken. It was the dry season, and the scrub-forest hills had turned every shade of dust and brown, punctuated only by the soft white flowers of the casahuate trees. In Apango, I asked for Estanislao Mendoza Chocolate, or Don Tanis, as he is respectfully known.... more

Tuesday, Feb. 06, 2024

WASHINGTON (TND) — Dartmouth has become the first Ivy League school to reinstate standardized testing, per the Wall Street Journal.

The COVID-19 pandemic meant schools were closed and things like SAT exam dates were canceled. Hundreds of colleges and universities waived standardized testing requirements and many have kept that policy in place.

According to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, more than 2,000 colleges and universities are optional for fall 2024 applicants.

Monday, Feb. 05, 2024

If you’ve taken a college tour lately, either as an applicant or as the parent of an applicant, you may have noticed that at some point—usually as you’re on the death march from the aquatic center to the natural-sciences complex—the tour guide will spin smartly on her heel, do the college-tour-guide thing of performatively walking backwards, and let you in on something very important. “What’s different about College X,” she’ll say confidently, “is that our professors don’t teach you what to think. They teach you how to think.”

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024

Just about everyone in America seems to be angry at higher education. Congress is angry. State governments are angry. Donors are angry. Parents are angry because schools are so expensive, and students are angry because they aren’t getting what they paid for. Just 36 percent of Americans now tell pollsters that they have significant confidence in higher education, down from 57 percent less than a decade ago.

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