The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Biden’s sweeping plan to cancel some debt for millions of people who took out loans for a college education.…
Read more U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Student-Loan Cancellation for Millions of BorrowersAs a law student at the University of Texas at Austin, Sam Jefferson worked in the school’s diversity office. Jefferson said he learned firsthand just how essential the…
Read more Students and Faculty Fear Tenure and DEI Bills Could ‘Destroy’ Texas CollegesWhen Texas lawmakers scheduled a hearing this week about two bills that could alter tenure and eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, the higher-ed community had a lot…
Read more Tenure and DEI Changes Loom Large in Texas. Here Are 3 Takeaways From a Marathon Hearing.Each spring, Missouri’s legislature goes through the familiar ritual of passing a new state budget. This year, Republican lawmakers have mostly wrangled over just one thing related to…
Read more College DEI Bans Are Showing Up in Republicans’ State Budgets. Not Everyone Is on Board.A bill banning mandatory diversity training at public institutions of higher education in North Dakota was signed into law on Monday. Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican, signed Senate…
Read more North Dakota Just Enacted a ‘Specified Concepts’ Bill. Here’s What It Says.Florida and Texas have drawn much of the national attention over lawmakers’ efforts to reform higher ed this year. But Ohio’s legislature hosted a dramatic, seven-hour committee hearing…
Read more Hundreds of Students, Faculty, and Administrators Speak Out Against Ohio’s Proposal to Reform Public CollegesFlorida’s state senators edited out some of the most contentious provisions of a much-discussed higher-education bill advancing through the legislature on Wednesday. Lawmakers scrapped all references to “diversity,…
Read more ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ Is Stripped Out of Florida’s Higher-Ed Reform BillThis academic year, public colleges in Washington state were required to provide training for faculty and staff on diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism — a new mandate based…
Read more Some States Want to Ban DEI in Higher Ed. These States Want to Require It.Among an avalanche of bills filed in the Texas Legislature on Friday were at least half a dozen proposals that would affect public colleges — a sign of…
Read more Texas Republicans Want to Reform Higher Ed. What Are Their Plans?The Chronicle is tracking legislation that would prohibit colleges from having diversity, equity, and inclusion offices or staff; ban mandatory diversity training; prohibit institutions from using diversity statements…
Read more DEI Legislation TrackerLydia Nobles, a New York-based artist, thought everything was going smoothly with the installation of her artwork at Lewis-Clark State College’s Center for Arts and History, in Idaho.…
Read more Citing State Law, an Idaho College Censored an Art Exhibit That Mentioned AbortionIn recent months, Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, has laid out a comprehensive vision that would place public higher education under extraordinary state control. A bill introduced this…
Read more ‘Never Seen Anything Like It’: New Bill Would Write DeSantis’s Higher-Ed Vision Into LawAbolish race-conscious practices. End “leftist indoctrination.” Fix what’s wrong with higher education in America. Those have been the long-stated goals of Republican governors, lawmakers, and activists who, empowered…
Read more Could North Idaho College Really Lose Its Accreditation?The idea of college as a fundamental political division in the U.S. has prompted a great deal of handwringing in the academic world over the past six years.…
Read more College Is a Dividing Line in Politics. Here’s What You Need to Know.The College of Saint Rose didn’t violate its own policies when it dismissed four tenured faculty members, according to a ruling Thursday by a New York appellate court.…
Read more A Rare Court Victory That Protected 4 Tenured Professors’ Jobs Just Got Reversed. Here’s Why.
