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With five weeks left in the semester, administrators reopened registration for hundreds of students. Chaos and bitter feelings ensued.

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The statement marks college presidents’ largest collective rebuke of the White House’s actions to date.
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The agency did not define what it meant by DEI efforts, leaving institutions to try to interpret whether their programs are implicated.
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Our analysis offers a sector-by-sector look at changes in average annual pay for workers in noninstructional jobs from 2012-13 to 2023-24.

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The federal government is reshaping its relationship with the nation’s colleges. Here’s the latest.
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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Feds threaten Harvard’s international students. Expect endowment investigations. States press deeper into college governance, and more.
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Feds deleted thousands of student-visa records. College begs for $6 million to stave off closure. Fire shutters campus for the week. And more.
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A tale of erosion, seen through six people in the trenches.
Many campuses with fewer than 1,000 students survived the pandemic on fumes. What’s next?
When genuine criticism is undertaken at the risk of ostracism, marginalization, retribution — this is a culture where abuses like hers grow.

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Higher-ed employees tell us why work has gotten worse under Trump
More than 10 percent of the university’s operating revenue last year came from federally supported sponsored research.
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How to execute the three phases of a presidential transition with as much finesse as possible.
Five tips to improve your mentoring and make it less time-consuming.
What does a well-designed leadership-development program look like?
The case for going “back to the future” and teaching without technology.
A lack of oversight and accountability allows abusive faculty mentors to operate unchecked in research labs.
Summer is in sight. How to prepare now for the coming whirlwind that ends with graduation.