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...

Every faculty member should read this @bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social story on how faculty are and aren’t using AI www.chronicle.com/article/ai-h...

This seems to be happening a lot these days:

I’ve heard this a few times today:

If your college president’s salary keeps growing and yours does not, you are not alone. We crunched the numbers and the disparity is growing www.chronicle.com/article/your...

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

What does the killing of Charlie Kirk mean for higher ed and the country? Listen to the College Matters podcast, where we dive into it all. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

What will Charlie Kirk’s killing mean? www.chronicle.com/article/maki...

Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed Wednesday while speaking at Utah Valley University, had become a face of conservative activism on college campuses.

U of Oregon will lay off dozens of employees to close budget deficit, including 20 non tenure track faculty, but will not lay off any tenure track faculty president.uoregon.edu/september-bu...

The data wizards @chronicle.com recently updated our faculty-pay transparency tool to draw on 2025 data. Worth checking out to see how #HigherEd salaries are mediated by local cost of living.

Colleges are cutting many types of departments, but religious studies in particular keeps ending up on lists of doomed programs. I looked into why: www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

My latest, on a battle at the U of Oregon over faculty input into budget deliberations. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

NEW: The NIH just started requiring NIH-funded research to be made freely, immediately available. In response, some journals are forcing scientists to pay thousands in open-access fees to publish. The result: chaos. The fees, one scholar says, are “out of control.” www.chronicle.com/article/maki...

Red states are attacking faculty governance, my colleague Sarah Huddleston reports www.chronicle.com/article/a-mu...

When George Mason's president came under attack by the Trump administration, he did what few embattled presidents dared; he spoke out and defended his actions. On Friday, he may learn whether publicly challenging the government's narrative helped or hurt him. www.chronicle.com/article/greg...

SCOOP: The NIH is moving to prohibit funded scientists, inside and outside the agency, from collecting data about gender, according to a draft policy I obtained. It’s part of the NIH’s aggressive crackdown on gender-identity research. www.chronicle.com/article/gend...

When obituaries go awry. Via this week’s Laurels & Darts/ @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

George Mason University’s Board of Visitors gave Gregory Washington, its politically embattled president, a raise Friday following a series of federal investigations over his efforts to racially diversify its faculty ranks. chroni.cl/40N7PhN

When George Mason University’s president came under attack by the Trump administration, he did what few embattled presidents dared; he spoke out and defended his actions. On Friday, he may learn whether it helped or hurt him. chroni.cl/4lbJjhH

Northwestern University cuts more than 400 staff positions (about half of which were vacant) amid funding freeze www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/29/n...

The latest settlement: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/m...

Columbia just agreed to hand over data on applicants. Admissions officials fear a new era of federal scrutiny. chroni.cl/44XNxos

A colleague has to meet with the university’s Office of General Counsel who want edits to their program’s website that basically amount to deleting every instance of the word “Black”

Federal funding in limbo? Try GoFundMe instead. That's the route several scholars have taken in recent months — but the notion of crowdfunding academic research is a double-edged sword. I've got the story @chronicle.com. #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Anyone thinking about AI and writing — or what may soon be at stake with much of human creativity — should read this essay by @meghanor.bsky.social. It is… genuinely thought-provoking and insightful. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

NEW from me: In an agreement with the Trump administration, Columbia agreed to review its international admissions. How foreign students became a political chip in the government’s effort to overhaul American higher education. www.chronicle.com/article/tuck...

Duke employees tell me they're expecting involuntary layoff announcements soon...

That's enough fun, now back to work!

A federal judge granted an injunction blocking the Trump administration's attempt to prevent Harvard from enrolling international students www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

In a head-spinning pair of announcements on Wednesday, the National Institutes of Health told staff that it would lift its monthslong freeze on all research funding to Columbia University — then reversed its reversal, emails show. chroni.cl/40eFhxh

The University of Minnesota wants to increase tuition by 6.5% while cutting academic programs by 7%, the Star Tribune reports. www.startribune.com/university-o...

Interesting tidbit from this story by @franciediep.bsky.social: A task force at Harvard suggested that "lack of rigor" among non-tenure track faculty was "partly to blame" for programs and events characterized as antisemitic www.chronicle.com/article/in-p...

The latest from Indiana via @theoscheer.bsky.social. Also, this seems to be happening a lot: "Indiana spokespeople did not respond to requests to make campus leaders available for an interview for this article, and did not respond to a detailed list of questions." www.chronicle.com/article/at-i...

BREAKING: In response to financial challenges and a dramatically reduced incoming freshman class, Clark University in Worcester school will restructure its degree tracks and layoff up to 30% of its faculty.

UPDATED: Ono spent much of the meeting dodging direct answers. When pressed on Covid mandates — with the questioner pointing out that as an immunologist, he must have an opinion — he answered: “I’m a mouse doctor. I’m a test tube kind of guy.” www.chronicle.com/article/stat...

BREAKING: Statewide Board Rejects Santa Ono's Bid to Become U. of Florida President. More to come shortly. www.chronicle.com/article/stat...

BREAKING: The Florida higher education system Board of Governors rejects the hiring of Santa Ono as University of Florida president. Vote was 6 yes, 10 no.

With higher ed under attack, what can one person do to make a difference? @drkevinrmcclure.com compiled practical tips from academics on where and how to start

Does it feel like private-equity guys are suddenly everywhere talking about higher ed? Perhaps because they are: A paper out earlier this year found a big rise in the percentage of top-ranked university trustees who are private-equity and hedge-fund managers: www.chronicle.com/article/priv...

Would you agree not to criticize your employer in exchange for a retirement buyout? Some faculty at Indiana University did just that www.chronicle.com/article/indi...

What a time for an international-education conference. My colleague @karinfischer.bsky.social reports from NAFSA in San Diego www.chronicle.com/article/coll...

Rick "Varsity Blues" Singer is back in business. Don't miss this episode of the College Matters podcast, where @jackstripling.bsky.social asks Singer about his stint in federal prison and how he was receiving calls to raise money within days of getting out www.chronicle.com/podcast/coll...