March 16, 2007

U. of Nebraska Sues Government Over Visa Request for Bolivian Historian

By BURTON BOLLAG

The University of Nebraska at Lincoln has sued the U.S. government to try to force it to respond to a petition the institution filed 21 months ago as part of the process of hiring a Bolivian historian.

The lawsuit appears to be the first time in recent years that a higher-education institution has gone to court to counter what critics say is a growing number of cases in which the government has kept out foreign scholars for ideological reasons.

In June 2005, the university

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