May 9, 2025
The Chronicle of Higher EducationVolume 71, Issue 18Cover Story
Flouting the framework
The administration appears to be bypassing most of the procedural steps required of civil-rights probes, lawyers say. It’s sparking confusion and alarm on college campuses.
Highlights
'Free speech goes one way'
Some students and lawyers say a new campus bureaucracy enforcing Title VI is doling out unfair punishments and quashing pro-Palestinian views.
The Review | Essay
While colleges duck and cover, their employees feel angry and abandoned.
The Review | Essay
Technology should facilitate learning, not substitute for it.
Also In the Issue
Leadership
The statement marks college presidents’ largest collective rebuke of the White House’s actions to date.
Hiring & Retention
A spokesperson said the governor’s office stepped in after a right-wing group posted videos of the finalists on social media and claimed they were “radical progressives with disdain for Florida’s DEI laws.”
Redefining Success
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.
The Edge
They’re wary because they can’t price risk.
The Review | Essay
Badar Khan Suri is held in Texas. We spoke through glass. This is what he said.
The Review | Essay
The great writer has been exiled from the Norton anthology.
Advice
How to execute the three phases of a presidential transition with as much finesse as possible.
