Brooke Hauser
Higher Education Reporter at The Boston Globe
Higher ed/Western Mass. reporter @bostonglobe. Miamian in New England. Author, “Enter Helen,” “The New Kids.” https://t.co/o31UfLyGgL
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5 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Brooke Hauser |Diti Kohli
Min Ye, a professor of international relations at Boston University, finds herself thinking of a line from a famous Chinese poem: “Where the heart is at peace, there is my home.” A former international student from Wenzhou, China, she now feels at home in Boston and mostly welcome in the United States, where she has lived for more than 20 years. But on Wednesday, the US effectively pulled the welcome mat out from under the Chinese international students here, some 277,000 by most recent count.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Brooke Hauser |Shelley Murphy
Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, is approximately 11,923 kilometers away from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, according to a signpost on campus that points to cities around the world. Shrestha, a rising senior, feels that distance acutely every day. It’s been a year since she’s been home, and she’s missed out on so much since she started school — family milestones such as weddings and funerals, visits with her new baby nephew.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Brooke Hauser
Are you an international student living with uncertainty due to recent Trump administration immigration policies? Have your school or travel plans been disrupted as a result? Or have federal funding cuts and freezes on research grants changed how you feel about studying in the United States? Is it still a land of opportunity?
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Brooke Hauser
AMHERST — “Pomp and Circumstance” played as expected at the University of Massachusetts Amherst commencement ceremony Friday , but Chancellor Javier Reyes delivered a message to the Class of 2025 straight out of a certain Hollywood movie-musical: Despite the challenges behind and ahead of them, he urged the graduates to “keep defying gravity.” Among the 6,200 graduates who filled McGuirk Alumni Stadium was Nico Anderberg, who decorated their mortarboard with alphabet beads that read: “Lowkey...
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Brooke Hauser
You wouldn’t know it to see me at Trader Joe’s with my L.L. Bean jacket and bouquet of tulips, but lately my grocery runs have been powered by the driving drums and general obnoxiousness of “Punk in Drublic” by NOFX. I may look like a 46-year-old woman on the outside, but I feel like a 14-year-old boy on the inside, at least for two hours of errands every Saturday. Recently, I’ve had an appetite for not destruction, but release: the screamy music of my youth.
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The task for commencement speakers is a bit trickier than usual: They have to navigate a highly charged political landscape at a critical moment for higher education and the country, all while inspiring the next generation and not alienating their parents. https://t.co/ddPYhN8rKQ
Rachel Petherbridge, a fifth-year PhD candidate, likened the ongoing funding threats to “a slow-moving train”: “It’s like we’re just sitting on the tracks…” With the threats on Monday, the train suddenly “jerked forward.” https://t.co/OSsKVzmoSA
“Journalism isn't the first media-related named horse to run in the Kentucky Derby.” Also see: “Newsboy in 1882 (11th place finish); there was Editor's Note in 1996 (sixth place finish); Suddenbreakingnews in 2016 (fifth place finish).” https://t.co/4JDLFy3EpQ