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Isha Trivedi

Reporting Intern
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Isha Trivedi is a reporting intern at The Chronicle. Trivedi is a senior at George Washington University, double-majoring in journalism and anthropology.

She has also served as a reporter, news editor, and managing editor at GW’s independent student newspaper, The GW Hatchet. Follow her on Twitter @ishaa_trivedi or email her at isha.trivedi@chronicle.com.

Stories by This Author

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The Search for Solutions
Food Pantries, Metamajors, and Sprint Football: How 3 Colleges Are Trying to Remedy Enrollment Woes
By Brianna Hatch, Wyatt Myskow, Isha Trivedi August 15, 2022
A community college, a public regional, and a small private institution try to innovate their way out of yearslong declines.
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DEI Mandates
More Colleges Are Adding Diversity to Tenure Standards. But the Debate’s Not Settled.
By Isha Trivedi August 12, 2022
Campuses increasingly see diversity, equity, and inclusion as central to their mission, but whether to make them factors in awarding tenure remains hotly disputed.
Indiana University Executive Vice President and IU Bloomington Provost Rahul Shrivastav poses for a portrait in Bryan Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022.
Academic Labor
Why This Provost Doesn’t Want to Recognize a Grad-Student Union
By Isha Trivedi August 3, 2022
Indiana University’s grad students applauded a decision to increase their stipends, but they say a union is still necessary.
A middle-aged man is seen with with short black hair and square-framed glasses and dressed in a suit and tie. He gestures with an open palm while delivering remarks in a press conference room.
Civil Rights
A Private University Drew a State Investigation for Its Anti-LGBTQ Policy. So It’s Suing.
By Isha Trivedi July 29, 2022
Seattle Pacific University says that Washington State’s attorney general is violating its religious freedom.
Three middle-aged people, a white man with short blond hair and an earing, a white woman with longer blonde hair and a white woman with shoulder-length black hair, sit at a conference table in a white meeting room. They appear to be in conversation. Behind them is a whiteboard with the words "interests" and "solutions" written on it.
Academic Labor
How a College Found a Better Way to Bargain With Its Faculty Union
By Isha Trivedi July 28, 2022
Officials at Umpqua Community College, in Oregon, took lawyers out of the room and talked about shared interests instead. It worked.
Standing against a dark backdrop, an older gray-haired black man is seen. He is wearing eyeglasses and is dressed in a dark suit with a white shirt and bright-red tie. He is gesturing in front of a podium and microphone as if he is speaking to an audience.
Faculty
After Student Criticism, Clarence Thomas Is ‘Unavailable’ to Teach at George Washington This Fall
By Isha Trivedi July 27, 2022
Some had urged the university to remove the Supreme Court justice after he was among a majority of the court that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion.
Nikole Hannah-Jones poses for a portrait at the headquarters of The Associated Press in New York, Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. A foundation is donating $2 million to Howard University to digitize a major collection of Black newspaper archives in hopes of making it more broadly available to researchers and the general public. It’s important to have access to the Black papers to have a better sense of the past, said Hannah-Jones, who founded the journalism center to increase diversity in the industry. (AP Photo, Robert Bumsted)
Race and Tenure
What UNC Agreed To in Its Settlement With Nikole Hannah-Jones
By Isha Trivedi July 19, 2022
The university will take steps to diversify faculty and staff hiring, among other things.
Seattle Pacific University students and faculty assemble outside Demaray Hall on the university's campus Tuesday, May 24, 2022, to stage a walkout to protest the Board of Trustees deciding to maintain a discriminatory hiring policy against people in same-sex relationships.
Students
This University Upheld Its Anti-LGBTQ Policy. Students and Faculty Say It’s Time to Change.
By Isha Trivedi July 6, 2022
Activists plan to sue Seattle Pacific University’s Board of Trustees after it decided to uphold a ban on same-sex relationships.
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Compensation
Faculty-Pay Survey Records the Largest One-Year Drop Ever
By Isha Trivedi June 22, 2022
Average salaries fell 5 percent in the 2021-22 academic year when adjusted for inflation, according to the American Association of University Professors.
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA - APRIL 14: A woman holds a sign reading, “IU’s poverty wages force students into the margins,” while members of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition strike for union recognition on April 14, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. Indiana University’s administration has said the workers don't need a union, and has refused to acknowledge it. The graduate workers were unhappy about low wages, and paying fees when the union was formed. The strike began April 13, 2022, but the first day of picketing was canceled due to weather.
Collective Bargaining
After a Fraught Semester, a University Wrestles With the Meaning of ‘Shared Governance’
By Isha Trivedi June 17, 2022
A graduate-student strike at Indiana University has divided faculty members and college leaders.
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