Half of surveyed Texas Tech faculty changed course content on their own after the chancellor's memos restricting teaching on race, gender, and sexuality. More than half say they're now looking for other jobs as a result of the memos. #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/half...

As gen AI enters the academic workplace, faculty and staff are worried about protecting their intellectual property, being assessed by AI tools, and being replaced. Here’s how that’s showing up in collective bargaining negotiations across the country. #academicsky www.chronicle.com/article/unio...

NEW: Which scientists were hit hardest by NIH grant terminations? Those who identify as people of color and LGBTQ, according to a survey of almost 1,000 researchers that sheds light on "who is potentially not going to be at the table 10 or 15 or 20 years from now." www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...

Think it must be wonderful to be a college professor and have the summer off? Not so fast, some professors told me #academicsky #highered www.chronicle.com/article/summ...

NEW from me: Immigration protections have become one of graduate students’ labor demands as foreign and undocumented students have been swept up in the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement. www.chronicle.com/article/grad...

You can trust the NCAA's president on the effects of college athletics on institutional finances...or you can trust a random professor talking about sweaty butts in seats. Increasing enrollment doesn't necessarily increase tuition revenue. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Chronicle exclusive: labor unions representing faculty and staff at 125 campuses across the Northeast are pledging to work toward shared bargaining goals. Here’s what you need to know. www.chronicle.com/article/dive... #highered #academicsky

Another faculty strike, this time at the University of Illinois Springfield capitolnewsillinois.com/news/univers...

Faculty members working on 9- or 10-month contracts: Do you work over the summer? What are the spoken or unspoken expectations? I want to hear from you #academicsky #highered

Faculty members are demanding better pay while colleges are struggling with volatile finances. Here’s how that played out on two campuses this week www.chronicle.com/article/amid...

Grateful to the faculty members who shared their stories about waiting to get paid for this story #academicsky #highered www.chronicle.com/article/cong...

My latest: When’s the last time you received your paycheck late? For faculty members, it happens more often than you might think. www.chronicle.com/article/cong...

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Texas A&M is censoring "race and gender ideology" from the classroom. Our podcast w/ @jasperjsmith.bsky.social digs in. pod.link/1766357400/e...

A wild story about a former chancellor www.cpr.org/2026/03/04/a...

The AI czar - coming soon to a college campus near you? www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart. www.chronicle.com/article/insi... via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @mzahneis.bsky.social

Interesting! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Academic workers - have you had to wait a long time for your first paycheck? Tell me about it for an upcoming story I'm working on (inspired by reader responses to a recent @drkevinrmcclure.com piece on absurdities in higher ed compensation) #academicsky #highered www.chronicle.com/article/comp...

St. John's is the latest Catholic university to stop recognizing its faculty union www.chronicle.com/article/anot...

Workplace bullying is a persistent problem in academe. I talked to experts about why that is, new efforts to combat the issue, and skeptics who worry that policing bullying will infringe on academic freedom @academicsky @highered www.chronicle.com/article/high...

Will other states follow Oklahoma's lead?? We'll be watching...

NEW: A year ago, the NIH said it would cap research-overhead costs, a change that would cost colleges billions. A ragtag group rallied behind a compromise plan—and it seems to have traction. Here's how higher ed staved off a research-funding bloodbath (for now): www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Adjunct faculty members are paid notoriously low wages. A new study estimates that only 7% rely on teaching for their primary income, but that figure may be low. www.chronicle.com/article/vast...

My latest: A university failed to make the case that it should be allowed to require a professor to teach in-person full time. Here’s what an arbitrator, and then a judge, said about the case. www.chronicle.com/article/univ...

Good piece from @taylorswaak.bsky.social on why Hampshire fell short on its fall class and what it means for the institution.

We asked the University of Austin why so many administrators, including the president, have left this year. We got no response. www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...

When my older 2 kids were choosing colleges, we looked at how they handled COVID. Did they prioritize safety & community? Did they use it as an excuse to cut faculty & staff? Are we OK spending tuition $$ there? Youngest is applying now, and the question is, how are they handling this moment?

Another university making big cuts to its library staff: depauliaonline.com/80758/news/d...

The Chronicle is hiring two recent college graduates or early-career journalists for our reporting fellowship to start work in summer 2026. Please send great candidates our way, share this with your networks, and reach out to me if you have any questions! jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/thechr...

An exclusive look at why Portland State says it is not obligated to reinstate 10 laid off faculty members, per an independent arbitrator’s binding decision: www.chronicle.com/article/an-a...

New model state legislation would require non-STEM faculty members to teach a 3-3 courseload. Here’s what you need to know about the proposal. www.chronicle.com/article/new-...

This story is well worth your time. And while the details may be different, a version of this is probably happening at a college near you...

This is a thoughtful and well-researched piece (featuring quite a few higher ed faculty members, including me) on the growth of most SEC universities. The reasons behind this growth are complex. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Another college offering faculty buyouts; more faculty wanting more say in budget cuts www.wvtf.org/news/2025-12...

An update on a Tarrant County College story I previously reported on, from the @fortworthreport.bsky.social: Provost terminated after some faculty told to return portions of summer pay fortworthreport.org/2025/11/21/t...

I spoke with four college workers who are grateful they were spared from layoffs but still grappling with the aftermath. Here are their stories www.chronicle.com/article/anxi...

My colleague @shenandoahkate.bsky.social breaks down what you need to know about fmr UVA president James Ryan's letter to the faculty senate about his resignation www.chronicle.com/article/stun...

A college admits its faculty members were given incorrect information about how much they had to work over the summer. Now it's demanding to be repaid www.chronicle.com/article/a-te...