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The HBCU’s alumni, faculty, and students say the search process was politically compromised by the Republican governor’s administration.
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Attending college once provided a similar payoff for students regardless of their parents’ income. But that’s no longer the case, according to new research.
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The university filed an amended complaint against the administration in response to the loss of the grants, which had previously been frozen.
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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.
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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Faculty salaries haven’t moved for over a decade, and draconian cuts to higher ed threaten to make things worse.
The food-service workers, electricians, groundskeepers, and other skilled craft workers were laid off amid budget cuts or their work was outsourced, according to experts.
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.
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The success of new faculty members doesn’t just happen. And it begins with thoughtful onboarding.