As the DEI Crackdown Escalates, Faculty Choose Between Silence and Resistance

While one professor says faculty are “pre-emptively censoring themselves” in response, others are defiant—while another is asking himself, “What would I be willing to lose my job for?”

Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Trans Participation in Women’s Sports

The order says the United States will oppose “male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.”

Preparing for Life After College: Alumni in Residence Provide Career Connections

Alumni serve as career counselors and industry experts for students, helping them develop professionally.

Funding Student Success: Parking Violations and Food Pantry Donations

Colleges allow students to pay off their parking tickets and other citations through gifts of food items to the student pantry.

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A Left, Not Libertarian, Defense of Free Speech

Joseph J. Fischel and Kyler Chittick argue that the academic left has ceded too much of the moral high ground when it comes to free speech.

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Scapegoating DEI: Silence Is Complicity

President Trump’s attacks on DEI are damaging and dehumanizing, DeRionne P. Pollard writes.

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Redefining What We Mean by Equitable AI

Higher ed has an important role to play in pushing for a broader understanding of equitable AI, Meacie Fairfax writes.

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Leaders in the Foxhole

Holden Thorp writes that the public response from college presidents to the Trump administration’s orders has been quiet so far—but he expects that to change.

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What Longtime MarComm Staff Can Teach Leaders About Organizational Change

Three essential lessons new leaders may overlook from long-serving marketing and communications professionals.

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3 Questions on ‘The Work Goes On: Centering Relationships and Reimagining Practices That Support Learning’

A conversation with Catherine Ross, Amanda Irvin and Suzanna Klaf on their chapter in Recentering Learning.

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The Power of Labels

How social categories shape society.

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Setting a Context for Agentic AI in Higher Ed

Artificial intelligence continues to develop at an unprecedented rate and scale. What changes will we see in higher education by the end of this year?

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Frustrated With Your Dissertation Chair?

Ramon B. Goings offers three fundamental strategies to help strengthen the relationship.

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Chairs Can Be the Changemakers Colleges Need

Don Chu argues that department chairs should take a much more proactive role in confronting institutional budget challenges.

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3 Steps to Close the AI Confidence Gap

When professors clear the confidence hurdle, they can approach artificial intelligence use and implementation in the classroom thoughtfully and effectively, write Ellis Reeves and Angie Chase.

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Who’s Invisible in the Data?

Chad M. Topaz and Tyrone Bass suggest five steps researchers can take to make more inclusive choices when collecting and analyzing data.

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Student Voice, our ongoing survey project with Generation Lab, is designed to gauge students’ views on key issues and their suggestions as to how colleges and universities can best help them succeed. Our annual Student Voice survey of 5,000-plus two- and four-year students covers academic success issues, health and wellness, campus life, and how students are preparing for life after college. The main survey is supplemented by additional student flash polls on timely topics to help institutions plan for student success in 2025 and beyond.