Aisha Baiocchi is a reporting fellow at The Chronicle. She is a recent graduate from both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, where she studied journalism and international comparative studies through the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program. She was previously a reporter for the Tampa Bay Times, writing for their metro desk, and served as special-projects editor for The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s student paper. You can follow her on X at @_aishabee_.
Stories by This Author
Prohibited Speech
A speaker dropped out of an event after Weber State University sent her a list of “prohibited words.” Now the university says it’s reviewing its guidance on the law.
Newly Updated
We’ve documented actions taken on hundreds of college campuses to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and retention of minority staff and students.
Enrollment
New, sometimes controversial, centers have been pushed as a way to emphasize civic and classical education. So far, students aren’t flocking to their courses.
Academic Freedom
An Indiana University lecturer has been removed from the classroom while her institution investigates whether she violated the state’s controversial intellectual-diversity law.
Access & Affordability
The institution hopes the move will create an alumni base both successful and grateful enough to give back.
Above and Beyond
Unmanned aerial vehicles have “proliferated themselves completely” at the University of Colorado at Boulder — in research, sports, and campus security.
Education Funding
Dozens of universities will receive money to boost civics education in commemoration of the United States’ 250th birthday.
A 'Political Football'
Federal scrutiny and the deployment of the National Guard have made life “eerie” at George Washington University. Some students and faculty say they’re being kept in the dark.
The Trump Agenda
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration erred in freezing the money to the University of California.
Left Out
Rank-and-file academics across the UCLA campus find their work in the line of fire of a larger political battle with the Trump administration.
