Jim Ryan’s ouster at UVa has left professors reeling. In advancing Trump’s higher-ed agenda, is pressuring individual presidents to resign the next arrow in the quiver? chroni.cl/4lAGO9l

JACOB YOUNG CATCHES FLIGHT

New: Penn just struck an agreement with the feds to resolve its Title IX probe, promising to scrub a trans swimmer's records and apologize to female athletes. Several cases the Trump admin is prosecuting in its spree against trans athletes are years-old. chronicle.com/article/trumps…

On the other end of the House settlement, of college sports history, many athletes have been left behind. Like, for example, Nick and Noah Wanzer, twins who were both college divers until they weren't anymore. washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/07…

DHS said it will send an administrative subpoena to Harvard for records relating to student-visa holders dating back to Jan. 1, 2020 dhs.gov/news/2025/07/0…

The NIH has disappeared dozens of grant applications. Not rejected them, but shoved them out of the peer-review pipeline into an administrative no man’s land. And there’s no clear exit. chroni.cl/45VTeEb

Could the Trump administration strike a ruinous blow to American science at a time when it is need of reinvestment, not retrenchment? “This is another Sputnik moment in front of us,” a former MIT president, said. chronicle.com/article/the-wr…

Scientific studies are expensive. A close look at one university's cancer-research lab shows why and the role indirect cost reimbursement plays in making such studies possible. chroni.cl/46bDUU6

Phillies debut the “Coldplay Kiss Cam”. Wait for it…

chronicle.com/article/in-a-k… Harvard University squared off against the Trump administration Monday in a Boston courthouse, the first big test in its legal battle to restore more than $2 billion in canceled federal research grants and avoid sweeping oversight by the government.

.@ThaiAliFloyd is also the first woman to hold this position at any #HBCU. bit.ly/46UNv1I

If you didn’t hear this story from Anas Baba on NPR today, you should take a listen. He walked 3 hours to find a working internet connection to file the story. npr.org/2025/07/25/nx-…

Today's the end of my first month back at The Chronicle of Higher Education covering higher ed😁🎓 If you have tips, send them to me [email protected]! 📥 In the meantime: "For This College’s Faculty and Students, a Lifeline Was Too Little, Too Late" chronicle.com/article/for-th…

chronicle.com/article/an-out… Belle S. Wheelan has never been afraid to speak her mind. That hasn’t changed even as the personal attacks — casting her work as representative of everything that’s wrong with college accreditation — have escalated.

I'm wrapping up my first month at the The Chronicle of Higher Education reporting on higher education‼️👩‍🎓 Always looking for tips and story ideas– send them my way at [email protected] or aishabee.80 on signal

Under Pressure From Trump, the Accreditor Overseeing Harvard Proposes Nixing DEI Standards chronicle.com/article/under-…

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can you reach me [at my .edu address]? no, you can't chronicle.com/article/a-nigh…

Got to chat on KQED's "Forum" today about research funding freezes at universities, along with Jaweed Kaleem and UCLA researcher Siobahn Braybrook kqed.org/forum/20101019…

Faculty across the Ivy League are organizing to improve shared governance on their campuses. But they’re fighting a national tide of opposition to faculty involvement in decision-making. chronicle.com/article/the-iv…