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The Cal State campus is slashing academic programs, laying off faculty, and, in an unusual move, scuttling its entire Division II athletics program.
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Taxes on endowments could go up under two reportedly different Republican plans, according to a Chronicle analysis.
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The Trump administration has abruptly canceled the visas or legal status of hundreds of international students, leaving campuses scrambling. 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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The food-service workers, electricians, groundskeepers, and other skilled craft workers were laid off amid budget cuts or their work was outsourced, according to experts.
New labels assessing colleges’ minority and low-income enrollments, and students’ later earnings, suggest a new orientation from one of higher education’s longtime arbiters of prestige.
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Here’s a sustainable plan to bring you up to speed on a technology that academe can’t afford to ignore.
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The success of new faculty members doesn’t just happen. And it begins with thoughtful onboarding.
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