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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.
Dismantling of DEI
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.
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Legislators want to get rid of DEI offices, end diversity trainings, banish diversity statements, and censor how professors talk about race, gender, and sexuality in mandatory courses.
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Does Alternative Grading Work? Researchers Have Studied That.
A new study, along with some existing research, showed that context matters.
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The Cost of International-Enrollment Declines
New estimates of the economic impact of a drop in foreign students. Plus, readers weigh in on a looming federal rule change.
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A Florida College Fires a Professor for Doing Her Job
Plus: Ghosts; AI is a wicked problem; scholars and secretaries.
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Ghost Students Haunting You
Plus, Howard University disenrolled 500 students. Understand why.
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Rediscover timeless and popular stories from our archive, handpicked by Chronicle editors.
Discomfort or Discrimination?
Their Teaching Aimed to Make White Students Uncomfortable. Then Came the Civil-Rights Complaint.
Two instructors used a “pedagogy of discomfort.” Did they go too far?
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The Great Contraction
Cuts alone will not be enough to turn colleges’ fortunes around.
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What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?
Scholars from across the academy give us their picks.
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Improving Student ROI and Economic Mobility
ON DEMAND: For broad-access institutions, economic mobility isn’t a talking point, it’s the whole mission. The Chronicle convened college leaders and policy experts to examine what it actually takes. With support from Ascendium. Watch on demand.
The New Student ‘Swirl’
ON DEMAND: The student journey is no longer linear. Transfer students, stop-outs, adult learners, dual-enrollment participants, and certificate seekers are reshaping enrollment patterns and challenging long-held assumptions about how students move through higher education. Learn more about what’s working, what’s changing, and how colleges and universities can better serve today’s increasingly mobile learners. With support from InsideTrack. Watch on demand.
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Visit The Chronicle’s professional-development-resources page to stay up to date on our career-advancement workshop opportunities for higher-ed professionals.
The Chronicle’s Women Leading Change Program
September 2026. The Chronicle has collaborated with Strategic Imagination to create a groundbreaking virtual leadership series that will provide critical context, creative strategies, and guided exercises for women in leadership roles across academe. Our program tracks are designed to target the areas most important to women in today’s tumultuous higher-ed landscape, with flexibility to sign up for just one day or an All-Access series.
The Chronicle’s Higher-Education Leadership Institute
October 2026. Higher education is going through seismic change, and leaders are faced with new internal and external challenges every day. This virtual workshop series will provide administrative leaders with the skills to effectively enhance institutional success and navigate shared governance by learning how to make tough decisions, lead with resiliency, and build high-performing teams.
The Chronicle’s Higher-Education Mental-Health Forum
October 2026. Join us for a transformative half-day of professional development featuring interactive sessions designed to address the growing challenges that students, faculty, and staff are facing on college campuses. Through engaging discussions and practical strategies, campus leaders will gain valuable insights to better support student well-being and foster productive mindsets.
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The Academic Year’s Main Stories, Told Through Data
What the numbers say about funding uncertainties, faculty morale, and the effects of federal policy.
College Attainment. Graduation Rates. Faculty Pay. How Does Your State Stack Up?
Explore how the states compare with one another and with the nation on demographics, college enrollment, diversity, tuition costs, and more.
Colleges Teach Gender and Race. They Ignore Class.
A database of 85,000 syllabi reveals a striking blind spot.
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