Sarah Huddleston is a reporter at The Chronicle of Higher Education. She was a news editor at the Columbia Daily Spectator, the campus newspaper serving Barnard College and Columbia University. During her time there, she broke this story on Columbia unilaterally revising a policy to suspend two pro-Palestinian student groups and was a co-writer of this story on how the institution was surveilling protesters. Email her at sarah.huddleston@chronicle.com.
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A Joint Effort
The Big Ten’s member institutions have collaborated on a 30-second TV spot that will air during conference football games and other sporting events.
Teaching & Learning
Most colleges don’t have a campuswide policy, leaving the crafting of such statements up to individual faculty members.
Unshared governance
Republican politicians say that professors are using governance bodies to advance ideological agendas. Faculty leaders fear they’re being written out of decision-making.
Agreement reached
The Ivy League institution made fewer concessions than Columbia University, though it will still share admissions data and discrimination complaints with the feds.
Mixed Emotions
Faculty and others expressed a mixture of relief and frustration over the deal, under which the university will pay over $200 million to have most of its research funding restored.
'A Seismic Shift'
The university said the government would resolve its investigations and restore most of the $400 million in research funding it had stripped from the institution.
Technology
New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.
Endowment funds
About 20 institutions banded together to lobby Congress on why their endowments should be left alone.
Campus Activism
Barnard College administrators will no longer negotiate with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which led many pro-Palestinian protests, or any “spin-off” organizations.
Approval Whiplash
Policymakers are taking aim at their ability to study and research in the United States. The damage may be long-lasting.
