Trending this year: Two issues dominated international education in 2013: a potential slowdown in the flow of foreign students to the United States and a heated debate over whether global partnerships threaten academic freedom. The number of graduate applications from Chinese students fell 5 percent, while the number from international students over all rose just one percent. At the same time, university administrators dealt with tricky issues as they opened and maintained campuses abroad.

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