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'A New Era'
By Megan Zahneis July 11, 2025
The new model comes as universities brace for a proposed 15-percent limit on indirect costs that would cost them billions of dollars.
Endowment funds
By Sarah Huddleston July 11, 2025
About 20 institutions banded together to lobby Congress on why their endowments should be left alone.

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Campus Activism
By Karin Fischer July 10, 2025
A Homeland Security official testified that a special unit tasked with scrutinizing international activists on college campuses used the Canary Mission’s website for about 75 percent of its leads.
Newly Updated
By Chronicle Staff July 10, 2025
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.
Leadership
By Katherine Mangan July 10, 2025
Similarities to recent events at another public university in the state are hard to ignore.
Productivity Measures
By Theo Scheer July 9, 2025
The mandate, included in the state’s new budget, applies to full-time faculty across the University of Wisconsin system — except at the two R1 universities, where professors must carry 2/2 loads.
Missing Files
By David Jesse July 9, 2025
The prominent Christian university’s nonprofit arm was dissolved by the state earlier this year, but it continued to operate. After this article was published, the university successfully filed for reinstatement.
Campus Activism
By Sarah Huddleston July 8, 2025
Barnard College administrators will no longer negotiate with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which led many pro-Palestinian protests, or any “spin-off” organizations.
Stuck in limbo
By Stephanie M. Lee July 8, 2025
Under Trump, their grant applications disappeared. What now?
First-Amendment Rights
By Nell Gluckman July 7, 2025
In a free-speech trial on Monday, two faculty members described self-censorship and behavior changes after arrests of scholars who had expressed pro-Palestinian views.
Broken Promise
By Karin Fischer July 7, 2025
Someday, in the not-so-distant future, Americans may find themselves on the sidelines of science.
Research Expenses
Text by Jennifer Ruark, photographs by Ash Ponders, video by Ash Ponders and Michael Theis, interactive by Ron Coddington July 3, 2025
Cancer research is expensive. Here are the price tags.