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Advice | Working Better

Performance Reviews Don’t Have to Be Miserable

Seven tips for making them less painful.
By Kevin R. McClure

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Developing
Johns Hopkins Lays Off Over 100 Workers Because of Federal Research Cuts
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Developing
Sharp Limits on Graduate Loans Are Temporarily Blocked
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Limiting Access
What It Would Mean for These Public Colleges to Ban Undocumented Students
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Data
This Is How Colleges Have Responded to the End of Race-Conscious Admissions
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Data
How the End of Race-Conscious Admissions Has Affected College Enrollment
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From the Frying Pan Into the Fire
Can Jennifer Mnookin Heal Columbia?

Latest Opinion

Rebecca Tuvel, a professor of philosophy who found herself at the center of an iconic public shaming episode 10 years ago. We revisit that saga and how she looks back on it now. Photographed at her parents' home in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on June 25, 2026.
The Review | Conversation
Rebecca Tuvel Was Canceled. It Was the Best Thing to Ever Happen to Her.
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The Review | Opinion
Critics of the SAT Lost the Argument
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The Review | Essay
How the SAT Survived Its Own Funeral
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The Review | Essay
Who Gets to Judge the Humanities?
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The Review | Opinion
Who Owns College Sports?
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The Review | Essay
Is There Life After Death? This Scholar Tried to Prove It.

Trackers: Keep Up With the Latest

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The Trump Agenda

The Chronicle 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.
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Dismantling of DEI

We’ve documented actions 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.
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DEI Legislation

Legislators want to get rid of DEI offices, end diversity trainings, banish diversity statements, and censor how professors talk about race, gender, and sexuality in mandatory courses.

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Colleges to Watch
June 19, 2026

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Weekend Reads

How AI Is Changing Teaching

Plus, searching for a better defense of the humanities.
By Eugene McCormack June 26, 2026
Teaching

How AI Is Forcing Professors to Overhaul the Way They Teach

Whether they are AI-proofing courses or incorporating AI into assignments, instructors are spending a lot of time revamping their teaching.
By Beth McMurtrie June 25, 2026
Latitudes

Is Trump a Rankings Albatross?

American colleges do well over all on global rankings, but political decisions could be undercutting their performance.
By Karin Fischer June 24, 2026
The Review

A Gender-Studies Scholar Worries the Field Has Gotten Too Constricting

Plus: Leaders to watch; the army and the great books; philosophers fighting.
By Len Gutkin June 22, 2026

College Matters Podcast

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How Another U. of Florida Presidential Search Went Sideways
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Is Michigan State’s Beleaguered Board Actually Broken?
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Dan Ariely Emailed With Epstein for Years. He Has (Mostly) No Regrets.
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The Canvas Hack Exposed Higher Ed’s Efficiency Obsession
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Best of Our Archives

Rediscover timeless and popular stories from our archive, handpicked by Chronicle editors.
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Advice

Why Students Are Skipping Class So Often, and How to Bring Them Back

Class attendance went off a cliff last year. A professor surveyed her students about it — and they had a lot to say.
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The Review | Essay

When Students Harass Professors

Women and people of color are most at risk. Colleges must do more to protect them.
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The Review | Essay

Will Your College Survive the Demographic Cliff?

National trends are interesting — but enrolling students is a local challenge.

Featured Interviews

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The Review | Conversation
Here Come the Student AI Resisters
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The Review | Conversation
‘Theo Baker Is a F**king Menace!’
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The Review | Conversation
Can the Academy Reform Itself?
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Special Reports

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Dive Into a Topic With Our Special Issues
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The Mission Issue
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The Trends Report 2026
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The Work Issue
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The Enrollment Issue
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The AI Issue
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The Leadership Issue

Virtual Events

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Improving Student ROI and Economic Mobility

UPCOMING: Tuesday, June 30 at 2 p.m. ET | For broad-access institutions, economic mobility isn’t a talking point, it’s the whole mission. The Chronicle will convene college leaders and policy experts for a virtual forum on Tuesday, June 30, at 2 p.m. ET to examine what it actually takes. With support from Ascendium. Register now.
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The New Student ’Swirl’

UPCOMING: Thursday, July 9, at 2 p.m. ET | The student journey is no longer linear. Transfer students, stop-outs, adult learners, dual-enrollment participants, and certificate seekers are reshaping enrollment patterns and challenging long-held assumptions about how students move through higher education. Join institutional leaders for a candid discussion about what’s working, what’s changing, and how colleges and universities can better serve today’s increasingly mobile learners. With support from InsideTrack. Register now.
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Professional-Development Resources

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Professional-Development Programs

Visit The Chronicle’s professional-development-resources page to stay up to date on our career-advancement workshop opportunities for higher-ed professionals.
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The Chronicle’s Women Leading Change Program

September 2026. The Chronicle has collaborated with Strategic Imagination to create a groundbreaking virtual leadership series that will provide critical context, creative strategies, and guided exercises for women in leadership roles across academe. Our program tracks are designed to target the areas most important to women in today’s tumultuous higher-ed landscape, with flexibility to sign up for just one day or an All-Access series.
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The Chronicle’s Higher-Education Leadership Institute

October 2026. Higher education is going through seismic change, and leaders are faced with new internal and external challenges every day. This virtual workshop series will provide administrative leaders with the skills to effectively enhance institutional success and navigate shared governance by learning how to make tough decisions, lead with resiliency, and build high-performing teams.
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The Chronicle’s Higher-Education Mental-Health Forum

October 2026. Join us for a transformative half-day of professional development featuring interactive sessions designed to address the growing challenges that students, faculty, and staff are facing on college campuses. Through engaging discussions and practical strategies, campus leaders will gain valuable insights to better support student well-being and foster productive mindsets.

Data

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Fewer Applicants to Selective Colleges and HBCUs Are Sharing Their Race

A new report says the 2023 Supreme Court decision ending race-conscious admissions could be a driver, but nonreporting rates for the sector over all have risen less than a percentage point.
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Faculty Wages Are Stagnating. Administrator Pay Is Growing.

A new report captures an accelerating financial divide.
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How Diverse Is Your College’s Faculty?

Explore this searchable, sortable table showing the race, ethnicity, and gender of full-time faculty members at 3,300 colleges and universities since 2018.
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