Leadership
Jay O. Rothman, a former corporate lawyer, had been president since 2022.
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 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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Intellectual curiosity has been replaced by pro forma attention to representation.
The Review
The Yale historian warns about the risk of totalitarianism under Trump. That’s great for selling books — but scholars are alarmed.
Advice
Here’s everything you need to know about finding a tenure-track position.
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April 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.
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Over the past year, the government’s employment-fairness agency has asked for the contact information of employees at colleges across the country.
Our analysis offers a sector-by-sector look at changes in average annual pay for workers in noninstructional jobs from 2012-13 to 2024-25.
The Yale Model for endowment investing has flopped.