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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.
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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The United States has long been a draw for the top students from overseas. What if that’s all who the country attracts?
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When a study challenged his bestselling book’s thesis — that social media harms kids — the New York University psychologist fired back. That was just the beginning.
Research Integrity
After a data-fabrication scandal and a university investigation, the dishonesty researcher is trying to move on. But is the damage already done?
Culture Clash
The technology could be a lifeline. It could also challenge colleges to communicate their value.
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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.
May 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.
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Data
See the latest federal data on compensation for all ranks of the profession at thousands of American colleges.
Institutional researchers are scrambling to hand over an unprecedented amount of information — and fretting about how the feds will use the data.
Americans think higher ed is increasingly unaffordable. The data says otherwise.
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