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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/4aEgQhs

Twenty-five institutions were recognized as top producers of Fulbright U.S. scholars and 96 were recognized as top producers of Fulbright U.S. students. See the lists here: https://chroni.cl/4tPvwD8

Opinion | 21st century Anglophone fiction has increasingly invoked mass-cultural genres: science fiction, fantasy, horror, the western, and detective fiction. https://chroni.cl/4tEXUYw

Opinion | The current system is snarled up, and fails students. https://chroni.cl/4qAOE4S

Conservatives have argued that adopting minimum teaching loads will curb a proliferation of “intellectually unserious” research. https://chroni.cl/4atCRiH

From the Archives: Did the university’s handling of one professor’s sexual-harassment complaint keep other women from coming forward for decades? https://chroni.cl/4reNeyd

Opinion | In the old days, the corporate jargon of interdisciplinarity might had genuine adherents. No one believes it anymore. https://chroni.cl/4aohXBC

Read what scholars are talking about. The Review newsletter, from Len Gutkin, offers sharp insight into the evolving world of ideas. Delivered free each Monday. https://chroni.cl/4kx8WuL

At Lourdes, what was once a potential solution to enrollment woes -- athletics -- has become an albatross around the university's neck https://chroni.cl/4atgz0m

As Lourdes University, a private institution in Ohio, expanded sports teams, it did bring new students to campus. But overall enrollment continued to decline. https://chroni.cl/4rEJy8s

An associate professor at the Salmon P Chase Center for Intellectual Freedom is on leave pending an investigation from the university police after striking a documentarian's camera and wrestling a man to the ground. https://chroni.cl/4rOLF9X

Is tenure a lost cause? Or is there a persuasive argument for protecting it — or even expanding it to more faculty? Hear the arguments on College Matters from The Chronicle: https://chroni.cl/4bMIUBi

Is tenure a lost cause? Or is there a persuasive argument for protecting it — or even expanding it to more faculty? Hear the arguments on College Matters from The Chronicle: https://chroni.cl/4bMIUBi

From the Archives: Why didn't Nikole Hannah-Jones get tenure? Here' what really happened. https://chroni.cl/3ZP9lzf

Opinion | What can economic theory tell us about administrative bloat and rising tuition rates? Plus: Best books; American studies. https://chroni.cl/4aor3OK

"Some chairs look to a civil rights investigation to fix everything that has gone awry in a department." https://chroni.cl/4tvSf70

Learn from your colleagues across higher education. The Teaching newsletter invites readers into the conversation about what’s working — and what’s not — in today’s classrooms. Sign up for free today to join the discussion. https://chroni.cl/4tvRnzg

Almost a year ago, the White House demanded Columbia place its Middle East studies department under academic receivership. Instead, Columbia promised a review of all regional studies. Here are the initial recommendations from that review. https://chroni.cl/4s4orwT

Nearly two weeks after the Justice Department released millions of pages detailing Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to higher ed, the fallout is still coming into focus, from resignations and canceled programs to student protests demanding transparency. https://chroni.cl/3Zr5mZo

Postdocs and graduate students are particularly vulnerable to workplace bullying and harassment. Here’s what a few groups are doing about it. https://chroni.cl/4617QBq

From the Archives: During the 1980s and 1990s, government support for higher ed declined, both financially and politically. College leaders have offered two primary explanations. The first was government officials simply have less money to give away. The second is that… https://chroni.cl/4ttPtyX

Academics have spoken about the importance of diversity in an industry where turnover is slow and tenure is long. What went underdiscussed is when hiring crossed the line and the possible repercussions if this private thumb on the scale ever came to light. https://chroni.cl/4aa0Cxu

Opinion | We are witnessing the spectacular failure of the university to heed the hard lessons of social media. https://chroni.cl/4c4UhF1

Think beyond borders. Karin Fischer’s weekly Latitudes newsletter explores the global forces shaping higher education with trusted reporting and insight. Sign up for free now. https://chroni.cl/4bRN0s1

How instructors describe AI use in their syllabus policies is changing, focusing more on AI’s impact on learning. Earlier, course syllabi were more likely to include only language stating that any AI use is a violation of academic-integrity policies. https://chroni.cl/4ky7CYC

A federal appeals court just handed President Trump a major legal win in his crackdown on DEI. The Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that his executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs don’t violate the Constitution. https://chroni.cl/4kpmCrs

Opinion | Standardized testing will make a comeback, AI will shake up the liberal arts, and other storylines to watch in the year to come. https://chroni.cl/4r8mb7v

From the Archives: Joan Donovan, a leading misinformation scholar, claims that Meta’s influence cost her a job at Harvard. A Chronicle investigation asks: Does her story stand up to scrutiny? https://chroni.cl/4r4sKI5

A push by the Trump administration to end college-tuition benefits for undocumented students has not attracted the same attention as raids by federal agents, but it’s part of an aggressive crackdown on immigration. https://chroni.cl/4r0IwUx

We must figure out a way to reliably detect LLM output and save our students from themselves. https://chroni.cl/4qo79sY

Stay current and stay ahead. Afternoon Update brings you the headlines you need without the clutter. Sign up for this free weekday newsletter. https://chroni.cl/4kpLQ9f

Opinion | For now, the argument for institutional neutrality seems to have won. It shouldn't have. https://chroni.cl/3O6rSEr

An AI bot is making podcasts with scholars’ research. Many of them are not impressed. https://chroni.cl/3Zq894Z

A $1,500 raise after a promotion, a celebrated 1% raise, and other tales from the frontlines of higher ed. How have you encountered higher ed's absurd compensation practices? Tell us about it. https://chroni.cl/3LZAGLP

From the Archives: How does a university go about replacing a live mascot? https://chroni.cl/4r3JuiV

Opinion | In a difficult year for academe, scholarly publishing remains robust. Here are some must-read titles from the year. https://chroni.cl/46pltud

What can administrators do to boost student success at their institution? Adjust the culture. https://chroni.cl/3NW7vd7

Adjunct faculty members are paid notoriously low wages. A new study estimates that only 7 percent of adjuncts rely on their teaching jobs as their main source of income. https://chroni.cl/3ZkUBYE

Make sense of today’s higher-ed headlines. The Academe Today newsletter combines breaking news with expert insight and practical advice. Sign up for free. https://chroni.cl/4qeMgAt

Oklahoma's regional institutions and community colleges must replace faculty tenure with renewable, fixed-term contracts, the state's Republican governor ordered Thursday. https://chroni.cl/4cboZfo

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/4klYxlh

From the Archives: How Boston College’s oral history of the Troubles fell victim to an international murder investigation. https://chroni.cl/4avmOlE

Opinion | "America’s higher-education footprint extends far beyond its borders — but our federal-policy imagination has not caught up." https://chroni.cl/4kjFQPn

In recent years, there has been an orchestrated effort across higher education to target what is taught in the classrooms. A key part of that crusade is students secretly recording their professors — with huge implications for the future of learning and the classrooms. https://chroni.cl/4r7ubpy

Melissa McCoul, a former lecturer at Texas A&M, filed a lawsuit against the university on Wednesday. She argues her right to free speech and due process were violated when she was terminated in the fall. https://chroni.cl/4qk3Q6f

The country, and higher-ed finance, seems to be be moving into a different era. "We're probably moving back toward where we were in the 2010s, coming out of the Great Recession," an analyst said. https://chroni.cl/4qmR5YP

Washington insiders and some judges say that the Trump administration's tactics that target colleges are legally questionable at best. Will that matter? https://chroni.cl/4akqxRV

One professor described being on a committee that had decided to hire a white male finalist over a white female finalist. “Oh, the department is gonna be angry about this. How are we going to justify the fact that we’re picking the white man, as opposed to the white woman?” https://chroni.cl/4r5utNu

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