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From the archive: Colleges want students to graduate ready to use AI. But what does that actually mean?This essay argues...
09/28/2026

From the archive: Colleges want students to graduate ready to use AI. But what does that actually mean?

This essay argues that colleges are moving faster than the evidence — and that students may be better served by deep disciplinary knowledge and honest uncertainty than by premature claims about “AI fluency.” https://chroni.cl/47taaBf

Colleges are racing to make students ‘fluent.’ One problem: No one knows what that means.

Massachusetts expanded financial aid, made community college free, and tested shorter bachelor’s degrees. But Noe Ortega...
09/28/2026

Massachusetts expanded financial aid, made community college free, and tested shorter bachelor’s degrees. But Noe Ortega says those changes also bring trade-offs — especially for adult learners and private colleges already under financial strain.

As he leaves Massachusetts’s top higher-ed post, he points to Texas as a model, defends reduced-credit bachelor’s degrees, and warns that free-college programs can intensify pressure on private institutions. Read the full Q&A here: https://chroni.cl/4ylG2nq

Noe Ortega reflects on his four years at the helm, a tumultuous period for the state’s colleges.

California’s community-college bachelor’s degrees can cost students less than $10,000 over four years. But there's a cat...
09/28/2026

California’s community-college bachelor’s degrees can cost students less than $10,000 over four years.

But there's a catch. The new laws that could expand these degrees have left both sides uneasy. Community-college leaders say students need more options close to home. Cal State officials warn against duplicating existing programs.

For many working adults, the outcome could shape whether a bachelor’s degree is within reach. https://chroni.cl/4xN5ykc

The state’s public higher-education systems don’t agree on their roles. Can new state laws ease the path forward?

Opinion: Higher education’s response to federal pressure is often framed as resistance or capitulation. Danielle Allen a...
09/28/2026

Opinion: Higher education’s response to federal pressure is often framed as resistance or capitulation. Danielle Allen argues that’s the wrong binary.

Instead, she writes that colleges have a civic responsibility to answer lawful requests from public officials — and a strategic reason to speak directly to the American people, not only through Washington.

She proposes seven national summits, with possible hosts ranging from MIT and Caltech to Purdue, ASU, Carnegie Mellon, Texas A&M, and Johns Hopkins.

https://chroni.cl/4xP4Sea

Conversation is not capitulation.

Dartmouth is conducting a review of Provost Santiago Schnell after he admitted to using AI to write academic articles an...
09/28/2026

Dartmouth is conducting a review of Provost Santiago Schnell after he admitted to using AI to write academic articles and newspaper opinion pieces.

Last week, Schnell defended his use of AI after the student newspaper examined his recent scholarly work and public writing.

The college is conducting a “rigorous, objective review” of Santiago Schnell after he admitted to using artificial intelligence to write academic articles and newspaper opinion pieces.

Joseph Henrich says anthropology is splintering over a core question: How should scholars balance advocacy, objectivity,...
09/28/2026

Joseph Henrich says anthropology is splintering over a core question: How should scholars balance advocacy, objectivity, and knowledge production?

His new 107-page report points to declining enrollments, job-market pressures, departmental divisions, and disputes over methods. Critics, including the president of the American Anthropological Association, say the field’s standards have not eroded. https://chroni.cl/4jrembV

Joseph Henrich, an author of a divisive report about politicization in the humanities, says, “I knew it wasn’t going to make everyone happy.”

If you’re heading onto the academic job market, it can be hard to know where to begin. This guide is designed to help ca...
09/25/2026

If you’re heading onto the academic job market, it can be hard to know where to begin. This guide is designed to help candidates — and the faculty advisers supporting them — navigate applications, interviews, offers and what comes after.

Here’s everything you need to know about finding a tenure-track position.

A live tiger came up in testimony against Oregon State University's women's basketball players' unionization bid.Roy Hag...
09/25/2026

A live tiger came up in testimony against Oregon State University's women's basketball players' unionization bid.

Roy Haggerty, Oregon State provost, said he left his previous provost job at Louisiana State University after Louisiana's governor "ordered" university leaders to bring a live, caged tiger back to LSU football games. Haggerty used this an example of how OSU's approach to athletics differs from other college.

At colleges like LSU, Haggerty said, athletics are "a much more influential and all-encompassing activity." https://chroni.cl/4xLSuf1

Roy Haggerty said Louisiana’s governor had “ordered” the university’s president to arrange for a caged tiger to appear at a football game.

A policy that helped undocumented students pay in-state tuition once passed with bipartisan support in statehouses acros...
09/25/2026

A policy that helped undocumented students pay in-state tuition once passed with bipartisan support in statehouses across the country.

Now the Justice Department has sued all 24 states that have passed laws granting in-state tuition to eligible undocumented students.
https://chroni.cl/4d7t2sV

The Trump administration has sued all 24 states that granted in-state tuition to undocumented students. But two decades ago, the policies had bipartisan support.

What’s with all these splashy reports on the state of higher ed?Cornell University published on Tuesday its “Report of t...
09/25/2026

What’s with all these splashy reports on the state of higher ed?

Cornell University published on Tuesday its “Report of the Committee on the Future of the American University," following arguably similar documents commissioned by leaders from Yale University and Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis.

The reports are a colleges’ concerns about falling public confidence and rising political interference, higher-ed watchers said. But they’re just about as useful to the whole sector as you would expect documents from one specific slice of the higher ed to be. https://chroni.cl/4d7symB

As critics seek to radically reform the country’s best-known institutions, college leaders try to beat them to the punch.

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