Law & Policy
Our news, opinion, and advice stories about the effects of law and public policy on higher education answer your questions, like:
- How are state and federal laws changing higher education?
- What are the coming changes to higher education policy?
- Who are the lawmakers shaping higher education laws and policy?
Newly Updated
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.
Campus Activism
As the academic year got underway, colleges tightened their rules. Now the Trump administration is threatening institutions that don’t crack down.
Newly Updated
We’ve documented actions taken on hundreds of college campuses to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and retention of minority staff and students.
Newly Updated
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.
The Review | Opinion
Hundreds of millions are at stake annually in the fine print.
The Review | Opinion
Accountability measures require a strong Department of Education.
Sports shakeup
After the expected approval of a landmark settlement on money in college sports, many questions will remain unanswered. The White House might take them up.
Data
Taxes on endowments could increase to as much as 21 percent under a new Republican plan being considered by the Ways and Means Committee, according to a Chronicle analysis.
The Review | Essay
We must stand up to Trump’s reactionary arsonists.
Bias Allegations
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has pointed to the university’s own data showing a decline in white, male professors.
