Learning and Teaching

Trump Administration Says Columbia U.’s Federal Funding at Risk Over Protest Response (March 4, 2025)

Budget Freezes Are Coming for Higher Education (February 18, 2025) Now Is Not the Time to Be Neutral (February 18, 2025) Despite a Judge’s Ruling, Large Swaths of NIH Funding Remain Effectively Frozen (February 20, 2025) The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation (February 21, 2025) Hands Off Higher Ed! (February 24, 2025) NIH Funding Cuts Could Have Ripple Effects on College-Town Economies (February 25, 2025) Trump’s Changes to NLRB Could Slow Momentum of Campus Unionizing (February 25, 2025) Universities Need to Defend Themselves, Not Remain Neutral (February 25, 2025) NIH Funding Is at a Standstill. This Professor Is Tracking the Delays. (February 26, 2025) Has Trump made the U.S. a no-go zone for foreign academics? (February 26, 2025) This Year’s Ph.D. Admissions Cycle Is Leaving Students in the Lurch (February 26, 2025) The Education Dept. Survives for Now, but Program and Staffing Cuts Cause Upheaval (March 6, 2025)

What Keeps Stressed-Out Faculty Members Going? Their Students. (February 10, 2025) What It’s Like to Work in Higher Ed (February 10, 2025) Higher Education Is Exhausted (February 10, 2025)

What Do We Do With Monstrous Mentors? (December 12, 2024) Higher ed’s distorted sorting mechanism (December 18, 2024) The Hidden Utility of the Liberal Arts (January 21, 2025) The University Has Always Been ‘Liberal.’ That’s a Good Thing. (February 6, 2025) Feeling Unappreciated? You’re Not Alone. (February 10, 2025) 16 Bold Ideas to Make Higher Ed a Better Place to Work (February 10, 2025) When the Administrative Punishment Machine Came for Me (February 19, 2025) Our collective obsession with college students’ grades might say more about us than them. (February 25, 2025) States Are Once Again Taking Aim at Tenure. This Time Might Be Different. (February 27, 2025)

How to Teach in an Age of Distraction (October 2, 2015) 5 Ways to Ease Students Off the Lecture and Into Active Learning (July 18, 2023) How do you close out your course? (December 12, 2024) Teaching: Recapturing the fun of teaching (February 20, 2025)

How a Top Trump Adviser Might Influence the President-Elect’s Views on Higher Ed (November 18, 2024) In Sweeping Action, Idaho’s Education Board Bans ‘DEI Ideology’ on College Campuses (December 18, 2024) Anti-DEI Law Is Discriminatory, Violation of Free Speech, NAACP Alleges in Federal Court (January 14, 2025) A University System Ends Diversity-Related Gen-Ed Requirements, Citing Trump Order (February 7, 2025) Long before Trump took office, some colleges banned DEI even though it wasn’t required. (February 12, 2025) The University of Michigan has widely been seen as a model for its DEI efforts. A backlash could result in cuts. (February 14, 2025) In Sweeping Letter, Ed. Dept. Says SCOTUS Ruling Applies to All Race-Conscious Programs (February 16, 2025) Ed. Dept.’s Broad DEI Warning Puts College Leaders in ‘Enormously Complicated Situation’ (February 18, 2025) Colleges Are Pre-emptively Ending DEI Programs (February 18, 2025) What College Leaders Are Saying About Trump’s Directive on R...