4 Steps to a Memorable Teaching Philosophy How do you write a teaching statement that doesn’t sound exactly like everybody else’s?

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

Faculty Senates Are Under Fire in Alabama and Louisiana 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/4sS50Ir

Rutgers Faces a Lawsuit Over Its Hundreds of Millions in Athletics Debt Budgets across the sector are under strain like never before. Here’s the latest.

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

Opinion | The False Flag of Viewpoint Diversity The insistence on more points of view misunderstands the structure of scholarly knowledge.

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

Government’s Demands for Employee Data to Identify Antisemitism Unsettle Academics Over the past year, the government’s employment-fairness agency has asked for the contact information of employees at colleges across the country.

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

A Board Asked Its President to Resign. He Won’t. 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.

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

‘Bordering on Insubordinate': How George Mason’s Conservative Board Chair Went After Its President Text messages obtained by <i>The Chronicle</i> detail a monthslong campaign to get Gregory Washington to dismantle its DEI programs and fall in line with Trump’s demands.

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

Advice | 10 Ways AI Is Ruining Your Students’ Writing And how to help them see that AI cannot craft good essays.

From the Archives: In Advice | How to make the case for your students that writing with AI will produce a generation that can’t write — which means, in a profound way, a generation that can’t think. https://chroni.cl/3OgZhg3

Who Gets an International Education? Smaller, poorer, and vocationally focused community colleges may be less likely to offer students global activities.

A gubernatorial candidate in Florida said his first executive order if elected would be to increase public-college tuition to $1 million a year for international students, a step needed, he said, because they are displacing U.S. students. https://chroni.cl/47FIUjD

Nearly Everyone’s Using AI at Cal State. And Nearly Everyone’s Worried About It. A survey of more than 94,000 students, faculty, and staff in the nation’s largest university system shows AI is deeply integrated into campus life, even as doubts about ethics and accuracy persist.

Nearly everyone in the nation’s largest public university system is already using generative AI. And almost no one fully trusts it. https://chroni.cl/419Bwtk

What Do Changes in Maine Mean For the Future of Free College? A pending vote could make it the first state to trim free-college benefits.

Legislation working its way through the Maine State Legislature could make a free-community-college program a permanent part of the state budget — but also alter it to limit eligibility and make some students newly responsible for fees. https://chroni.cl/41HBo4l

Elise Stefanik Goes Woke The crusading politician’s book about higher ed embodies everything she says she’s against.

Opinion | Does Elise Stefanik have any principles at all? https://chroni.cl/4c7jZqN

Wyoming Has One University. Can It Survive Its Own Legislature? The state’s flagship dodged a $40-million cut but not the bigger questions it raised.

A group of new guard, super-conservative Republican lawmakers tried to cut $40 million from the University of Wyoming's budget. Here's why they failed. https://chroni.cl/4e4vbXs

The Bleak Prophecy of Timothy Snyder The Yale historian warns about the risk of totalitarianism under Trump. That’s great for selling books — but scholars are alarmed.

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/4sSmg0c

Opinion | How to Prepare for When ICE Shows Up on Campus Here’s what you should be doing right now.

Opinion | The institutions that fare best are those that act before the crisis hits. https://chroni.cl/4bIpywO

Economic Diversity Is Ticking Up at Elite Colleges. Why? Some think it’s all due to the <i>SFFA</i> decision. That’s not the case.

Opinion | Fighting the status quo takes sustained institutional efforts. https://chroni.cl/4tqTvYh

Scott Galloway Is Provocative and Quotable. But Is He Right? One of higher ed’s most acerbic critics on academe’s inefficiencies, social mobility, and his cameo on The White Lotus.

Scott Galloway thinks elite colleges are "morally corrupt." He's also desperate for his son to get into one. https://chroni.cl/4v1x3q2

Penn Must Turn Over List of Jewish Employees to Trump Administration, Judge Rules The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s request was “understandable” for an investigation into alleged antisemitism in the workplace, the judge wrote Tuesday.

Penn must turn over the names and phone numbers of Jewish employees to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a judge ruled Tuesday. https://chroni.cl/4sM0B9S

How Did Ted Carter’s Tenure at Ohio State Go So Wrong? A former Navy man who built his reputation on integrity couldn’t avoid a scandalous downfall.

Ex-Ohio State President Ted Carter’s career suggested he was someone who took ethics and personal responsibility seriously — until he was caught having an inappropriate relationship. https://chroni.cl/4tiEpUm

The Paradox of Public Intellectuals Today’s intelligentsia struggle to rouse an audience cocooned in consumerism.

From the Archives: Today's intelligentsia struggle to rouse an audience cocooned in consumerism. https://chroni.cl/4bU8xyu

Tracking Trump’s Higher Ed Agenda: 3 Medical Schools Face Admissions Investigations <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.

The federal government is reshaping its relationship with the nation's colleges. Here's the latest. https://chroni.cl/4sM2djQ

Academe’s Most Interesting Reformer Plus: an interview with Annette Gordon-Reed; affirmative action and socioeconomic diversity; the NIH.

Opinion | One of the most compelling reformers in the business. https://chroni.cl/4tgac8x

Opinion | Actually, College Is Getting Cheaper Americans think higher ed is increasingly unaffordable. The data says otherwise.

Opinion | For families across the income spectrum, college is more affordable today than it was six years ago. https://chroni.cl/47xhrAL

In Charlie Kirk, State Lawmakers Find a Muse for Their Higher-Ed Reforms Legislators have invoked the late founder of Turning Point USA in bills about free speech, teaching religion, and more.

Higher education reform bills in at least 7 states have named the late conservative activist, Charlie Kirk, in their titles or as the justification for their filing. https://chroni.cl/4cgpQLu

The Entry-Level Job Market Stinks. These Grads Are Crushing It. What distinguishes colleges with strong job-placement rates? An intense focus on real-world readiness.

The entry-level job market is rough—1.1 million jobs cut in 2025. Yet some colleges still place 95%+ of graduates. Here's a closer look at the strategies helping grads beat the odds. https://chroni.cl/4to0aT8

Opinion | What the University of the Future Will Look Like The current model is broken. Here are seven substitutes.

Opinion | Nearly everyone has a stake in maintaining the fiction that there is one legitimate model of higher education and that traditional degrees are its only valid currency. https://chroni.cl/4delVQm

Opinion | Can Higher Ed Save Itself? Business as usual won’t solve the existential challenges we face. Will anything?

From the Archives: Opinion | Gabriel Paquette on three models for reinventing higher ed: the laissez-faire, the pragmatic, and the utopian. https://chroni.cl/4sCGavN

Wisconsin Governor Vetoes Bill to Eliminate References to ‘Minority’ Students The Chronicle is tracking state legislation to restrict colleges’ efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion. Where does your state stand?

State lawmakers have introduced more than 100 bills to limit colleges’ diversity, equity, and inclusion work. Check out our legislative tracker and map. https://chroni.cl/4tgKxN4

In New Order, Trump Says Colleges Must Attest They Won’t Promote DEI to Receive Federal Funding Thursday’s directive told agencies to add anti-DEI language to all contracts and defines diversity-related activities that could get institutions in trouble.

A new Trump directive told agencies to add anti-DEI language to all contracts and defines diversity-related activities that could get institutions in trouble. https://chroni.cl/4bZk6Vd

Why Is the NIH Abandoning Science? This is not a temporary slowdown.

Opinion: When every funding decision has to be be approved by political appointees rather than scientific program staff, the result is paralysis. https://chroni.cl/4lVWUf0