Chronicle of Higher Education

What Teaching Support Do You Want Right Now? Some centers struggle with low attendance. What would draw more people?

Teaching centers are often under-used. What kind of programming would draw you to your center? https://chroni.cl/4slOEHg

Oklahoma Moves to Block Tenure as Iowa Approves Expansion of Four-Year Degrees The legislative session is underway in dozens of states, and higher education is very much on the agenda. Here’s the latest.

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/40bkCKj

‘We Are in a Crisis’: Why Louisville’s Leaders Are Proposing a Cap on Sports Spending The university says it’s struggling to cover the growing costs of competition, and the government needs to act quickly before sports are shuttered nationwide.

Louisville’s leaders say the math of college sports no longer works. Without spending caps and federal action, they warn, athletics could disappear from some campuses. https://chroni.cl/4aUInMX

The Chilling Effect of Student-Visa Vetting The government’s scrutiny of social media is at odds with our commitment to free speech.

Opinion | When students speak less, challenge less, and participate less, the consequences extend far beyond them: they stifle the entire university ecosystem. https://chroni.cl/3N88k2b

Censoring Courses Isn’t the Law in Texas. Public Universities Are Doing It Anyway. Teaching restrictions were removed from Senate Bill 37 after “relentless” lobbying, but board members and administrators have since enacted strikingly similar requirements.

As a state senator, Brandon Creighton supported restricting how college professors teach about race and gender. Those restrictions were pulled from his bill, but he reinserted strikingly similar ones at the Texas Tech system, where he’s now chancellor. https://chroni.cl/4lfYmIL

Opinion | The Right’s Academic Civil War Conservative scholars built a reform movement. Will conservative politicians destroy it?

Opinion | If conservatives are serious about academic reform, they can't do silly stuff like banning Plato. https://chroni.cl/4rVjFlC

Idaho Pursues Higher-Ed Cuts, While Wyoming Backs Off Big Hit to Flagship The legislative session is underway in dozens of states, and higher education is very much on the agenda. Here’s the latest.

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/4d2w820

He Vibe-Coded a Crisis for Higher Education Advait Paliwal set out to create an AI tool that would make professors angry. He succeeded.

Einstein, an agentic-AI tool that claimed it could connect to Canvas and complete assignments for students, causing a meltdown across higher ed. The site is now gone, but the questions it raised about AI's impact on teaching and learning aren't going anywhere. https://chroni.cl/4rPQvE9

When You’re an ‘Expert’ Reviewing Students’ Work on Grammarly — But You Didn’t Know It The platform offers users AI-generated feedback under the names of scholars by drawing on their accessible publications. Some academics are unsettled.

Grammarly’s new “expert review” tool tells students what noted scholars would say about their writing. But scholars say they had no idea their names — and ideas — were being used. https://chroni.cl/4sooWSl

The Trends Report 2026 The Chronicle’s annual investigation into the most consequential developments in higher education is here! Explore the full report.

The Chronicle's annual investigation into the most consequential developments in higher education is here! Explore the full report. https://chroni.cl/47cqYwK

We’ve Been Trendspotting for Years. What’s Our Track Record? What we got right, what we missed, and what it means.

The Chronicle’s Trends Report is an annual exercise in threading the needle between present and future. We've been doing it for years. What's been our track record? https://chroni.cl/408k7ka

Public Colleges Are Finally Learning to Share A new wave of state-level reform tests an old idea — that “systemness” is the key to sustainability.

Faced with mounting demographic and financial pressures, states are trying to make the most of their public colleges without merging them. https://chroni.cl/4cpY3c4

Virtual Courses Used to be the Exception. Now They’re an Expectation. Even traditional-age learners living on campus want the option of taking some courses online.

From the Archives: Five years after higher ed’s emergency pivot to remote learning, students — including traditional undergraduates — have flocked to online courses. The demand has forced administrators to re-imagine the role online education plays. https://chroni.cl/3OLVLdv

How Epstein Infiltrated Academe Plus: Bad civil-rights law; more on American studies; Jesse Jackson.

Opinion | An illuminating interview about the literary agent behind Jeffrey Epstein's connections. https://chroni.cl/4rIOZnm

Will War Further Fray Colleges’ Ties in the Middle East? Conflict with Iran is just the latest blow to academic engagement in the region.

The war with Iran is closing U.S. branch campuses in the Middle East and leading to do-not-travel warnings for the region. But the conflict is the latest event to fray U.S. ties in a part of the world that had been a priority for many colleges. https://chroni.cl/4srPvX2

Opinion | How Civil-Rights Law Was Turned Against Civil Rights Title VI is now a tool for silencing dissent.

Opinion | A new report from the AAUP and the Middle East Studies Association reveals the extent to which protest speech has been persecuted. https://chroni.cl/4rZTVUU

Opinion | Will Agentic AI Break Higher Education? A new app offers to do students’ work for them. Professors aren’t ready.

It may not be possible to create AI-resistant assignments in the future. What does this mean for assessment? https://chroni.cl/46ysg56

Higher Ed Is at a Turning Point. 11 Scholars Predict What’s Next. AI, enrollment, finances, politics, and the turbulent road ahead.

A Harvard law professor says resist. A Dartmouth president says reform. A Chicago historian says teach hope. 11 very different trends for 2026. https://chroni.cl/3OLn87y

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In letters to the editor: why academic costs keep going up; Oklahoma's harmful orders; Yale's great hire. https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/letters/?utm_campaign=che-social&utm_content=20260303&utm_medium=o-soc&utm_source=bs

The Campus Cold War: Faculty vs. Administrators Have relations reached an all-time low?

From the Archives: Existential threats have exacerbated the divides at many colleges. The stakes are higher, and the tensions are worse. https://chroni.cl/3MZhduU

Michigan State Senior Who Explored Academe’s Quirkier Side Wins David W. Miller Award for Young Journalists The prize, which recognizes the newsroom’s top intern from the previous year, honors a former Chronicle reporter who was killed by a drunk driver while on assignment.

Theo Scheer exposed the virtual tug-of-war transpiring between college PR staffers and passionate Wikipedia editors, and profiled a controversial film professor whose courses encourage conflict between students. https://chroni.cl/47nveJQ

Citing ‘Wicked Ideologies,’ Pentagon Says It’ll End Graduate Fellowships at 13 Universities <i>The Chronicle</i> 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.

Citing ‘wicked ideologies,’ pentagon says it'll end graduate fellowships at 13 universities https://chroni.cl/4aWP4N3

Iran War Live Updates: Satellite Campuses Hunker Down as Conflict Expands Military strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran have upended the daily operations of American universities with campuses, programs, and students in the region.

Military strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran have upended the daily operations of American universities with campuses, programs, and students in the region. https://chroni.cl/4cqhl16

Opinion | The authoritarian threat is growing. The old playbook won’t work. https://chroni.cl/3OHJB5u

Illinois Wants to Spread More State Money Around. Not So Fast, Says Its Flagship. A plan to award new funding to public colleges based on their financial need would “siphon resources” from the U. of Illinois, its president argues.

A proposed funding model in Illinois would focus on inputs — what institutions need to educate the students they have — rather than outputs. https://chroni.cl/4aXBZD9

Opinion | Why Universities Keep Losing the Argument They have responded to public skepticism with appeals to their own authority. It’s not working.

Opinion | A historian critiques the former Columbia president Lee Bollinger's vision for the university. https://chroni.cl/4r3bFxt

From the Archives: Sexism is rampant in academe. If only theorizing would provide a remedy. https://chroni.cl/4aLi6AA

Ohio Proposes Bill to Ban ‘Rebranding’ of DEI Offices The Chronicle is tracking state legislation to restrict colleges’ efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion. Where does your state stand?

Ohio Proposes Bill to Ban 'Rebranding' of DEI Offices https://chroni.cl/4biYF24

Congress Restores International-Ed Funding Axed by Trump Lawmakers also increase oversight to block backdoor vetoes of spending by the administration.

Congress has restored funding for international-education and foreign-language programs that had been slashed by the Trump administration and moved to block the executive branch from making unilateral cuts to spending. https://chroni.cl/4bh5Nfj

The National Student Clearinghouse Faced a Trump Investigation. Now It’ll Stop Working on a Key Study. The group announced this week it would no longer collaborate with Tufts University on researching college-voting engagement after the Education Department alleged privacy-law violations.

The Department of Education alleges that Tufts University and the National Student Clearinghouse violated FERPA after more than a decade of collecting student-voter data. https://chroni.cl/4rOeOCH