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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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More pressure on Harvard. Bob Jones bungles tax exemption. No public money, no problem for out-of-state incentive. And more.
By Rick Seltzer July 10, 2025
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Barnard College settles lawsuit. NIH moves to limit author fees. The decline of U.S. research prominence, and more.
By Rick Seltzer July 9, 2025
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Harvard faculty wants no deal with Trump; NC Gov. vetoes DEI ban; a new hack to get in-state tuition at the U. of Texas; and more.
By Rick Seltzer July 8, 2025
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Harvard’s worst-case budget scenario. AI sure seems to write a lot of research. Was a campus anti-marijuana campaign prejudiced? And more.
By Rick Seltzer July 7, 2025
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Great Read

Rediscover timeless and popular stories from our archive, handpicked by Chronicle editors.
'He Was Singling Us Out'
Of the many complaining questions that faculty members ask, the one I used to hear most often was, “Why do you administrators make so much more money than we do?”
Parking Dispute
The military veteran had taught at Tarleton State University for over a decade. His colleagues were stunned.
Prestige Encounters
As this professors prepared his budget presentation before his college’s provost and deans, he wanted a way deliver the key more emphatically. Here’s how he pulled it off.

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Data

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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Advice

Two pillars of teaching — structure and evidence — are also the keys to writing more effectively for the public.
Be prepared for executive searches to take longer and for candidates to require more convincing.
Lessons for current and future department heads on how to succeed in this vital yet idiosyncratic role.
Your institution might not be able to love you, but it can certainly prioritize your well-being on the job.
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.