The Trump Agenda
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.
DEI Legislation
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.
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.
Professional-Development Programs
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.