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In a confusing turn of events, the National Institutes of Health told staff that it would free up some frozen funding to the Ivy League campus — then quickly backtracked.
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Facing uncertainty in state and federal funding, the university’s regents approved substantial increases to tuition and cuts to academic programs.
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Following a historic settlement that allows colleges to pay athletes for the first time, programs are taking subsidies from the main campus to cover new costs.
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The Chronicle is tracking executive orders, statements from Trump, and agency actions that affect higher education, plus legal challenges directed at those measures. Here’s the latest.
We’ve documented actions taken to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and retention of minority staff and students.
Legislators want to get rid of diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, end diversity trainings, banish diversity statements, and censor how professors talk about race, gender, and sexuality in mandatory courses.
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Trump challenges in-state tuition for undocumented students in another state. Credential buyers beware. Free college on the ropes in Maine. And more.
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Call it “Vision for Excellence,” involve all campus constituencies, and issue a flurry of news releases. Better yet, skip it.
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Perhaps the ugliest side of professors is the conviction that specialized knowledge about a few narrow subjects confers intellectual and moral authority on matters about which one knows almost nothing.
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I’ve been teaching for about 10 years now, and, of course, I was a student for 20 years before that. So I have some experience observing my students’ sins, and perhaps even more experience committing them. The sins that I see in the everyday life of the typical college student are not great ones.…
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Shuttering the program, which had been expected to lend out about $19 billion annually over the next decade, could make graduate education very costly or unattainable, warns the Council of Graduate Schools.
A look at changes in average annual percentages of full-time instructors who were members of specific racial and ethnic groups in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, by degree-granting college.
Explore this searchable, sortable table showing the race, ethnicity, and gender of full-time faculty members at 3,300 colleges and universities since 2018.
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Our graduate-school enterprise exists today in a state of anxiety and reactive tension. Here’s how we’re managing.
Too many searches, especially in this buyer’s market, fail to woo job candidates with kindness and professionalism.
Too many Ph.D. students still feel compelled to make their career plans in secret.
An acquisitions editor offers eight tips for marketing-shy academics.
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