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The former University of Michigan leader’s failed move to Florida has taken on unmistakable political significance for higher education.
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More than 600 colleges qualify for the money. Conservatives say it incentivizes discriminatory recruitment practices.
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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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Threat to colleges’ tax exemptions. Lawsuit challenges HSIs. A battle to buy Wells College, and more.
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Another Harvard investigation? Fulbright board members walk out. Judge opens the door to Khalil’s release, and more.
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Former presidents pan Big, Beautiful Bill. Senators nix Virginia board appointments. Private equity primed for college sports. And more.
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NIH employees decry research changes. Small colleges lobby to dodge endowment taxes. Campus politics sway students’ college searches. 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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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.
No field kept up with inflation, but some are faring better than others.
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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.
How to stand up for academe in this era of constant attacks from federal and state governments.
Prospective students aren’t just looking for academic fit or financial aid — they’re looking for human connection. They’re looking for home.
An Arizona grant program offers a model for how to support academic research that puts the public interest first.