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Senior Writer for @chronicle. Baseball fan (#NATITUDE), Des Moines, IA native, trombonist. He/Him/His. [email protected]

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What do your peers think about AI use and publishing? We surveyed 460 academics about AI use, how they use the technology, what they find acceptable use-cases in writing, and more. Here's what we found: chroni.cl/481dLH6
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Now, stop causing me misery! SCRAM!!
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Did Cornell do enough? What would enough have looked like? My colleague Haley Zimmerman and I take a look. chronicle.com/article/did-co…

Did Cornell Do Enough?

The university followed protocols in Jane Doe’s case, experts say, but that doesn’t let it off the hook.

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And here is an Anne Carson sonnet. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n21/…

Anne Carson · Poem: ‘Sonnet Isolate’

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At a time when many college presidents avoid public fights, Wesleyan’s Michael Roth is taking the opposite approach — calling out the Trump administration and peers he sees as too quiet. The question is whether he’s building a defense of higher ed or standing mostly alone. chroni.cl/4yIr776

The College President Who Won’t Shut Up

Michael Roth is trying to defend higher education. Why isn’t anyone joining him?

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New: At a time when many college presidents avoid public fights, Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University, is taking the opposite approach — calling out the Trump administration and peers he sees as too quiet. chroni.cl/4yIr776

The College President Who Won’t Shut Up

Michael Roth is trying to defend higher education. Why isn’t anyone joining him?

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Lincoln University students and alumni say the state of Missouri intentionally underfunded its land-grant HBCU. Now, they’re suing for $549 million to recover decades of owed funds. chronicle.com/article/a-laws…

A Lawsuit Says Missouri Squeezed a Land-Grant HBCU

A $549-million lawsuit in Missouri is the latest shot fired in a legal battle over underfunding of the nation’s land-grant Black colleges.

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🚨 NEWS: Trump administration wants to sharply increase fees for participating in optional practical training, the work program for recent international graduates. There would be a $70,000 fee for an initial OPT application and $30,000 for subsequent apps public-inspection.federalreg…
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Kate Hidalgo Bellows@katebellowsOct 6
ICYMI, student journalists rock. We're hiring two for @chronicle's spring internship (or recent graduates). You can apply below. We're based in DC, but interns can work remotely from NY, NJ, NC, FL, TX, WA, VA, MD, and MI. Pay is $800 a week before taxes jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/t…
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Emma Pettit
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It was a real pleasure to chat with @meghan_daum (a writer I’ve admired for years) about Street Fight — Longview’s new miniseries about homelessness. We talked about the history of this problem, the shuttering of America’s mental asylums, the expansion of homelessness rights, Spencer Pratt’s heretical appeal, and more! Link to that conversation here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… And you can find Street Fight here: longview.report

Who Has the Right to Sleep on the Sidewalk? feat Emma Pettit

Podcast Episode · The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum · September 23 · 1h 21m

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The University of Arizona says it is tightening standards, and its first-year class is smaller. We’re tracking this and other campus-finance moves, including a $225-million budget cut at the University of Minnesota. chroni.cl/4rEvptq

Penn State to Close 47 Programs

In other finance news, outlook worsens for Oregon State’s ag college, the U. of Minnesota at Rochester looks to build, and Stockton to lay off 21 workers.

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Lawmakers want to cap international athletes on college teams, arguing they take spots from Americans. NCAA data show their numbers have increased over the past decade but have fallen for the past two years. Their share of all NCAA participants has held steady, around 5 percent.
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The University of Oregon has received a $1-billion donation to start an engineering college. It’s a major investment in a new academic unit as other campuses weigh cuts, closures, and budget pressure. Get the latest campus-finance updates. chroni.cl/4hq3V5S

Penn State to Close 47 Programs

In other finance news, outlook worsens for Oregon State’s ag college, the U. of Minnesota at Rochester looks to build, and Stockton to lay off 21 workers.

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One year after Charlie Kirk was killed at Utah Valley University, UT-Austin is facing a new test: how to protect campus safety without letting threats decide who gets to speak. The speaker this time is Hasan Piker, a left-wing streamer drawing scrutiny. chroni.cl/4dtEmjc

Hasan Piker Is the Latest Test of College Speech

Last year’s murder of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University shows safety risks are real.

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New: The White House is reportedly preparing an executive order to take control of NIH grants — an attempted workaround as President Trump seeks to cut research funding to Harvard amid an ongoing legal battle. chroni.cl/4iFS6uP

Trump Administration Says It Is Investigating 9 Colleges for Alleged J-1 Visa Fraud

Vice President Vance said the institutions are using the exchange visas “way to much” and in a manner that undercuts “the wages of American grad students and American researchers.”

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Enrollment trends show students increasingly flocking to flagship universities. As these big universities surge ahead in the enrollment wars, smaller institutions hope that cutting tuition will signal to prospective applicants that they're just as affordable. chroni.cl/4dQkwid

More Private Colleges Are Trying to Woo Students With Public-Flagship Prices

As big universities surge ahead in the enrollment wars, smaller institutions hope that cutting tuition will signal to prospective applicants that they’re just as affordable.

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chronicle.com/article/vander… Diermeier spoke about politicization in higher education, attempts to limit academic freedom, and why he’s publicly pushing so hard for reforms to higher education while working quietly behind the scenes with federal officials.

Vanderbilt’s Chancellor Publicly Criticizes the Sector but Talks Quietly With the White House

In a new interview, Daniel Diermeier defends his approach to navigating the sector’s political turmoil.

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UCLA Law faculty didn't expect controversy when they began planning a symposium about the 9/11 attacks’ consequences — many of them negative — on parts of U.S. law. They found themselves on the receiving end of a right-wing media backlash, and rebuked by their chancellor. chroni.cl/4rk8EuA

How UCLA Law’s 9/11 Symposium Spiraled Into Controversy

Professors planned a “serious scholarly discussion” of September 11’s legal aftermath. Then right-wing media attention and a rebuke from their chancellor complicated things.

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A forthcoming book claims that a Smithsonian study has settled the debate about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. But a relative has dropped out of the research, concerned that the book is leapfrogging peer review by a scientific journal. chroni.cl/4yKiAA3

Sally Hemings’s Oldest Descendant Gave the Smithsonian Her DNA. She Says It Lost Her Trust.

On the eve of a new book that promises to settle the debate about Thomas Jefferson, a Hemings relative is raising alarms that its science hasn’t been vetted.

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