Thousands of South Asian students at US universities will be forced to return home if their schools and programs go fully online for the fall semester due to COVID-19. In a statement released yesterday (July 6), the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)...
Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, is open for business this fall — but to get there, you really have to want it. Tucked amid verdant hills 23 miles east of San Francisco, accessible by a single road and a single entrance, the small, private Roman Catholic...
“Your ten minutes of participation will impact ten years of your life,” said Nick Kuwada, the Office of the Census, Santa Clara County in his keynote address. At a Civic Forum organized on Jan 23, 2020 co-sponsored by India Currents and Ding Ding TV in...
“What did you eat today?” my mother, Sarada, begins her phone conversation with my twenty-three-year-old daughter in New York. When my daughter explains that she made rasam and sautéed cauliflower over the weekend, Sarada’s face lights up. Later she tells me she’s...
“You know the student loan crisis is bad when I’m asked to testify before Congress about it,” tweeted Hasan Minhaj, the popular host of political comedy series Patriot Act, on Netflix. Minhaj was invited by the House Financial Services Committee to share his...
A coalition of civil rights organizations has concrete suggestions for Congress as it considers how to update the 1965 Higher Education Act (HEA). That law informs a vast array of college, university and post-graduate issues, from the provision and terms of student...
