From the Archives: Academics across the country are talking about the reading problems they are seeing among their traditional-age students. https://chroni.cl/4cEqVwJ

Opinion: After years in the wilderness, Steven Salaita is back in academe. We asked him about it. https://chroni.cl/4t3ebpf

An administrator at Texas State University at San Marcos threatened to call police on a fired professor after the former faculty member, Thomas Alter, joined a campus protest. His involvement violated university policy, the administrator argued. https://chroni.cl/48HCGA6

The Education Department is trying to overhaul accreditation. Policy and legal experts warn many of the proposals may be illegal. https://chroni.cl/4tNSjyq

Timothy Sands, one of the longest-serving college presidents in Virginia, said he would step down in the near future. The exit has raised questions -- stoked in part by a U.S. Senator -- about the Virginia Tech board's involvement. https://chroni.cl/4tMGQz2

“It would have been nice if at least someone had been willing to stand up for academic freedom and publicly say that we find the policy problematic. But no single person, department head, dean, or provost, has done so.” https://chroni.cl/4cliCou

For years, there has been a dominant narrative about college: Earning a degree is the surest pathway to the American dream. Lately, though, thanks to AI and economic shifts, that story line has begun to unravel. https://chroni.cl/4msd7Jg

Readers weigh in on three-year degrees and changing demographics at Harvard in Letters to the Editor: https://chroni.cl/3PSMpxh

The Chronicle compiled the peer institutions for nearly 1,500 institutions. Explore to see whom your college considers to be its peers — and who thinks your college is its peer. https://chroni.cl/4t5YmhN

Finance Live Updates: Iowa State Axes Gender Studies as Hundreds Apply for Buyouts at U. of Texas Campus https://chroni.cl/4sp9aGw

Tucked into a slew of bills signed by President Trump this week was a rare win for research universities, one that aims to keep billions in taxpayer dollars flowing. https://chroni.cl/3Qw9s0T

The legal fight over the Trump administration's effort to impose a 15-percent cap on research overhead is over. Colleges won. https://chroni.cl/3OsxF7M

Is AI a threat to the next generation of computer-science majors or is it their greatest tool? Capstone-level programs are trying to figure that out. https://chroni.cl/4tHOFpK

College students are struggling to navigate a system that no longer delivers on its promises, says Ian Bogost, the Washington U. professor and writer. https://chroni.cl/4dEMvm2

Steven Salaita on censorship, political violence, antisemitism, and why he returned to the academy. https://chroni.cl/4vqUIRa

From the Archives: Battles over money. Allegations of racism. A chair ousted. https://chroni.cl/41nYLzO

The United States will face a “critical shortage” of China experts with on-the-ground experience within a decade if the number of Americans studying there continues to be perilously low, a new report warns. https://chroni.cl/48qnrvp

Budgets across the sector are under strain like never before. Here's the latest. https://chroni.cl/4cjFyEz

Opinion | Endowments would be better served by a much simpler and cheaper S&P 500-heavy approach. https://chroni.cl/3OrwCoE

Dive into salary data for the faculty at 3,500 colleges. https://chroni.cl/4sjIjeP

One economist cautioned that science "has never worked on the assumption that every published paper is correct." From his point of view, the rates reported by the SCORE project were surprising, in a good way. https://chroni.cl/4ssWRZV

The movement for three-year degrees rests on the notion that four-year programs are packed with irrelevant courses that students don’t want or need. Students might see those courses as a waste of time, but they might also be the very courses that bring value to a degree. https://chroni.cl/4so3cFU

From the Archives: Opinion | The point of the humanities is now to display conformity to a new moral sensibility. https://chroni.cl/4cbiU0R

The grade inflation challenge is less about grades than it is about student preparation and administrative expectations. https://chroni.cl/4cih3HX

Jay O. Rothman had refused to resign after being asked to do so by the chair of the Wisconsin System board, according to letters he’d written to regents. https://chroni.cl/3QbWmWx

There’s a cohort of college presidents who believe it's time to take seriously the complaints about higher education that have been coming from the right. They think their argument is winning the day. https://chroni.cl/41V0vRg

As public attitudes sour over higher education’s politics and prices, a handful of college leaders now say the opposition has a point. https://chroni.cl/4dB16Pb

Harvard Law's Noah Feldman on Trump's lawsuits, antisemitism, Jewish enrollment, and more. https://chroni.cl/4cAZlzB

The University of Wisconsin's Board of Regents fired the system president Tuesday, saying it had lost confidence in his leadership without elaborating further. https://chroni.cl/4skV9K4

From the Archives: Timothy Snyder's dark prognostications ("Beware the one-party state," “Listen for dangerous words”) have captured a national mood. https://chroni.cl/4meyXjl

We are documenting actions being 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. https://chroni.cl/3OaiK1Y

Opinion | Post 2023, top colleges had no choice but to increase financial aid and seek out students from lower-income backgrounds. https://chroni.cl/4tvqjiH

Boston University is pausing its removal of signs, including pride flags, from outward-facing windows following weeks of controversy over the practice. https://chroni.cl/4vh71PJ

Adding any new standards for accreditors may run into problems with the Higher Education Act, which limits the department’s authority on what it can demand of the organizations. https://chroni.cl/4c5boVq

Opinion | The historian Joan Scott takes a hard look at right-wing plans for interfering with university oversight. https://chroni.cl/4c59bJC

Humanities majors are increasingly questioning the generative artificial intelligence tools that are reshaping their generation’s academic experience, and in many cases shunning them altogether. They see AI use in the classroom as a character test. https://chroni.cl/4sneNVE

From the Archives: Here’s everything you need to know about finding a tenure-track position. https://chroni.cl/4drUxOZ

Opinion | Our reviewer read Elise Stefanik's new book about higher ed. He wasn't impressed. https://chroni.cl/48cCs3S

Opinion | The classroom, lest we need reminding, is a human community. It, too, can be enchanted through the power of ritual sacrifice. https://chroni.cl/4m8oGF6

Colleges are scrambling to submit an unprecedented amount of student information to the feds. It’s not going well. https://chroni.cl/4sTu4yx

The feds are demanding admissions data from colleges. A federal judge says the mandate is “arbitrary and capricious.” https://chroni.cl/4cwHVnJ

The move to place nearly all students in college-level math rather than remedial courses is seen as a way to help disadvantaged students avoid getting stuck in noncredit courses. But what happens to students who’ve been away from the classroom for a decade or more? https://chroni.cl/3O7pPAb

In one of the nation's most ambitious, and contentious, overhauls of math education, California has made it all but impossible for most students to start out in remedial courses. Are they removing a lifeline or a barrier to the least-prepared students? https://chroni.cl/4c5X7I2

From the Archives: How do you write a teaching statement that doesn't sound exactly like everybody else's? https://chroni.cl/4v84ebB

The legislative session is underway in dozens of states, and higher education is very much on the agenda. Here's the latest. https://chroni.cl/4sS50Ir

Budgets across the sector are under strain like never before. Here's the latest. https://chroni.cl/4trh2Z5

Opinion | The renowned intellectual historian David Hollinger weighs in on the viewpoint-diversity debate. https://chroni.cl/47FGTEc

A judge ruled Tuesday that the EEOC can move forward with a contact-info request that Jewish community members at the U. of Pennsylvania had called a dangerous "list of Jews." This administration has a history of contact-info requests many find creepy. https://chroni.cl/3QiPNkX

The University of Wisconsin system president, Jay Rothman, said in letters obtained by The Chronicle that the board would not tell him why they’d lost confidence in his leadership. https://chroni.cl/3O25JY4

While George Mason University’s president was fending off attacks by the Trump administration, the head of his own board was orchestrating a pressure campaign against him. Here's what we learned from reviewing hundreds of text messages. https://chroni.cl/4tuH3qs