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From 2025: Opinion: Tenure-stream faculty now make up less than 30 percent of the professoriate. Yet tenure remains a central target in debates over academic freedom, workplace speech, and who can be fired for what they say off the clock. chroni.cl/3XjEHzG
Ghost students” have become a costly problem in online higher ed. Excelsior University says its fraud-prevention model has stopped 99 percent of them from receiving student aid or private loans. Understand that story and others in our Decision Points newsletter. Subscribe for free here: chroni.cl/4BXgvD5
Opinion: Anthropology has a public case to make at the very moment AI is forcing universities to defend what human scholarship can do. Instead, this essay argues, the field keeps turning inward.
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Drew University is planning a new venture that it says will help its finances and serve its mission at the same time: an AI-powered school for grades 1-7, modeled on the controversial Alpha School format. chroni.cl/4zieWx4
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Opinion: In 2013-14, 18 colleges sought Shakespeare specialists. This year: three.
In this essay, a tenured English professor asks what disappears when universities stop hiring literary specialists — and whether AI will hasten the loss. chroni.cl/3WG7dLE
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From 2024: When a study challenged “The Anxious Generation”’s thesis — that social media harms kids — Jonathan Haidt fired back. That was just the beginning. chroni.cl/3XgUiQt
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Opinion: A study of 498 Duke undergraduates complicates the usual campus-speech debate: The students least likely to speak up were often not at the ideological extremes, but closer to the middle. chroni.cl/4iwvHzz
A 14 percent rise in applicants selecting “race unknown” is raising a difficult question for colleges: After the end of race-conscious admissions, how much trust have students lost in the process? chroni.cl/4zGnizI
New: New York City Council speaker Julie Menin, a Democrat, asked 10 college presidents to testify in front of the council's higher education committee about sexual violence: chroni.cl/3VilI83
San Francisco Bay University, hoping to re-introduce itself to higher ed after a crisis-ridden decade, is creating AI avatars of its business faculty for a new online degree. Its leaders think the model could be academe's next big thing. Will it be? chroni.cl/4zErQGA
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From 2025: Santa Ono's failed bid to take the University of Florida's presidency has made him something of a heel among some higher-ed peers. When news of his rejected appointment broke at an industry event, one attendee recalled, "There was a lot of schadenfreude in that room — a lot of people thinking pride goeth before the fall." chroni.cl/4zCHZwp
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Many professors say the job now includes more software, training, forms, and meetings, often for tasks that used to be simpler.
In this podcast, Barry Lam says that phenomenon has a name: Bloat 2.0. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. chroni.cl/4sQATBF
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Cornell’s Faculty Senate has voted no confidence in senior administrators, 75-50, over the university’s response to a 2024 alleged gang rape at a fraternity house.chroni.cl/4kHh25W
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After Democrats' seismic win in the midterm elections, a leading critic of campus diversity efforts now says the politics may be shifting again. So, is DEI back? chroni.cl/3UrPBm9
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Opinion: If academics use AI to write, what are readers owed: disclosure, authorship, accountability, orproof of human effort? A Chronicle Review forum takes up the question with sharp disagreement and a reply from Allison Stanger. chroni.cl/4sO2OSV
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Breaking news: Cornell University’s Faculty Senate has voted no confidence in administrators’ handling of the alleged gang rape that has roiled the campus. chroni.cl/4zsbH7b
From 2025: A Brown sophomore emailed more than 3,500 university employees asking them to justify their jobs — and linked to an AI-built database rating roles for “redundancy" and “legality.” chroni.cl/4fdr2QM
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Opinion: James Fessenden left little published work. But through friendships, edits and arguments, he helped shape Camille Paglia and Gillian Rose — two thinkers now remembered in almost separate worlds.
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The University of Maine is offering 158 faculty members an early-retirement incentive at its campuses in Orono and Machias. The effort is intended to help close a $19-million budget gap. chroni.cl/4iCuyFc
Opinion: A stunning midterm result could reshape the higher-ed policy landscape. Here's six questions campus leaders should be asking now. chroni.cl/4C22gNA
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