The Chronicle is tracking executive orders, statements from Trump, and agency actions that affect higher education, plus legal challenges directed at those measures. Here’s the latest.

We’ve documented actions taken to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and retention of minority staff and students.

Legislators want to get rid of DEI offices, end diversity trainings, banish diversity statements, and censor how professors talk about race, gender, and sexuality in mandatory courses.

Two instructors used a “pedagogy of discomfort.” Did they go too far?

Pushing students to and through higher ed seemed like a good idea, but it’s had an effect on how they learn.

Here’s what the data tell us.

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