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.
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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The military veteran had taught at Tarleton State University for over a decade. His colleagues were stunned.
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Crises spur intense competition among colleges. There’s a better way.
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The Trump administration’s moves are impoverishing the sector.
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State and federal support has declined as a share of overall revenue — putting a greater burden on students. See the trends at more than 1,500 institutions between 2002 and 2023.
Higher education has long relied on H-1B visas. Now that President Trump has added a $100,000 fee for workers hired from abroad, bringing in this talent will come with a bigger price tag.
Students are learning less, studying less, and skipping class more — yet their grades go up and up.
In evaluating student work, the risks of getting AI wrong are real, but so are the rewards of getting it right.
Why faculty members need to shift the balance of class time from first exposure to skills practice.
Seven tips to plan the right mix of relaxation and work.
It’s unreasonable to expect professors to hit hurdle after hurdle and still stay in the race. Institutions are going to have to clear some obstacles.
Three simple steps to help stymied students participate in class discussions.
If academics don’t deal with these problematic tools now, we’ll lose online education.