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In-depth and breaking news from the world of higher education.
Wage wars
At two very different institutions — New York University and Portland Community College — work stoppages disrupted classes and operations over the past week.
Keep the Customer Satisfied
Students are showing up to college with weaker skills. Colleges need them to succeed. Professors are stuck in the middle.
The Trump Agenda
Thursday’s directive told agencies to add anti-DEI language to all contracts and defines diversity-related activities that could get institutions in trouble.
Newly Updated
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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Developing
The legislative session is underway in dozens of states, and higher education is very much on the agenda. Here’s the latest.
Accreditation
The president of the Higher Learning Commission took a defiant stand this week, telling her members that the group would not respond rashly to threats.
Law & policy
Why Florida’s university system cut the discipline from gen ed.
Law & policy
Legislators have invoked the late founder of Turning Point USA in bills about free speech, teaching religion, and more.
Law & policy
San José State joins Harvard as the only other university to sue after being targeted.
Staying Afloat
Hampshire College is the third institution in five years to be asked by the New England Commission of Higher Education to prove it deserves to keep its accreditation.
Major Stoppage
A joint protest by faculty and staff members at Portland Community College is in response to institutional budget cuts.
Signs of the times
Boston University has drawn a line between personal and institutional speech. Some professors see censorship.
Newly Updated
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.
Rethinking rules
The University of Sydney, in Australia, created a menu of assignment options for instructors — and now effectively allows students to use AI tools for most work outside the classroom.
