Could a major pay raise end up forcing University of California labs to hire fewer postdocs? chronicle.com/article/postdo…

A lawsuit filed last week against Yale University has reignited a debate about how colleges should best help students who are going through serious mental-health crises. chronicle.com/article/colleg…

What does it look like to teach — and have grades due — during a monthlong strike by teaching assistants in the University of California system? Grace Mayer and Carolyn Kuimelis explain, but the short story, as one prof put it: "It's a mess." chronicle.com/article/its-a-…

.The Chronicle of Higher Education interns Carolyn Kuimelis & @gracemayerr have been doing great work covering the grad-student strike @ the U. of California, including visiting CA to report. The UC system enrolls 220,000+ undergrads. Grades are coming due. Here's the latest: chronicle.com/article/its-a-…

I wrote a story detailing how some striking UC graduate workers are risking arrest to pressure UC leaders. As one told me, all they have are their bodies. Special appearance by Tom Morello, who uses his "guitar as a battering ram for social justice.”  calmatters.org/education/high…

Become a The Chronicle of Higher Education intern!! Lots of learning and mentorship and the occasional office shenanigan:

Last fall, I assigned Carolyn Kuimelis a quick story about new funding to ease California's student housing crisis. In our research, we came across Camper Park, where UC-Santa Cruz students live in trailers without reliable internet for $700 a month and everyone thinks this is normal.

Amazon encouraged sellers to use its fulfillment program, but many merchants didn’t know what the consequences would be — until they were pursued for uncollected taxes. Read the latest Tax Notes investigation by Paul Jones: taxnotes.co/3GI1tGa

NEW: I obtained internal communications that show UT is eliminating a scholarship for undocumented students citing Texas' DEI ban and a federal immigration law. dallasnews.com/news/education…

Do you have questions about #TaxPolicy and the 2024 election? Our editorial team of tax experts and on-the-ground reporters wants to help. Submit your question here: taxnotes.co/election

I got to sit down with IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel this week and talk about how the agency is moving the needle with modernization and what's next as we head into a new administration. Check it out Tax Notes and where you get your podcasts.

Pop superstar Beyoncé and the IRS agree that she owes $709.20 in tax and penalties instead of the nearly $2.7 million that the agency had asserted in a deficiency notice, according to a stipulated decision approved by the Tax Court. taxnotes.co/3VCnKwV