David Wescott

Michael Dorf: "A university that concludes it can survive only by bending to the Trump administration’s demands will find that what survives is not recognizable as a university." chronicle.com/article/harvar…

🚨@JewishCurrents is hiring a managing editor and an operations coordinator! You can find both job descriptions here: jewishcurrents.org/careers

"The general scale of the problem is clear and it is extremely large and difficult to overcome" - @phil_wellesley chronicle.com/article/these-…

@erikmbaker congrats!

Some very exciting news. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-first-fi…

Channeling DOGE, a Brown U. Student Asked Administrators: What Do You Do All Day? chronicle.com/article/channe…

Brian Rosenberg: "The university has compromised its autonomy and its integrity not for clemency, but — at best — for a stay of execution." chronicle.com/article/columb…

My new column in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the attempt to cut federal funding to Columbia: chronicle.com/article/the-tr…

Exclusive: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia. The cuts are “only the beginning,” according to Trump’s antisemitism task force. @SulkinMaya and @gekaminsky scoop in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/exclusive-tr…

NEW: It’s been a hectic week at @usedgov I talked to career staff waiting on sweeping cuts, layoffs and an executive order that was teased but not signed today. They say exhaustion and dread have overwhelmed the department. insidehighered.com/news/governmen…

Robert Kelchen: "I remain more optimistic than many in the field ... Yet it is also clear that quite a few colleges are struggling and will need to make significant changes to remain viable in the long term" chronicle.com/article/how-di…

1/ I wrote for the Chronicle of Higher Education about how federal higher education policy is now being run via insane vendettas from the worst people you can imagine.

For @chronicle I answered one of the questions I've gotten most about my book: where have I encountered the entrepreneurial ethic in my own working life?

New, from me and @meganzahneis: In 2023, Florida passed a law curtailing "identity politics" in the gen-ed curriculum. How did public universities go about complying? Who led the effort, and who made the final call? We tried to find out: chronicle.com/article/the-cu…

Steven Brint talks administrators' "fungible commitment" to diversification, the specter of "American Tradition Academies," and his optimism for the sector chronicle.com/article/there-…

A large endowment tax on elite colleges and universities is a terrible idea, but it's on the table. Perhaps it's most harmful impact is that it will reduce access for lower-income students. chronicle.com/article/how-tr…

What happens next with the demographic cliff? "As Hemingway once said about bankruptcy, it’s gradual, then sudden." chroni.cl/4a9p0gM

"Getting 12 people to spend significant time studying serious challenges and then reaching consensus about how to tackle those challenges is a heavy lift. Doing this with 25 or 35 or 45 people is close to impossible." chroni.cl/3Dg2VB8

What do you call a college library without any librarians? Western Illinois University is about to find out. My latest: chronicle.com/article/a-luxu…

“BU isn’t accepting new Ph.D. students for the next academic year in a dozen humanities and social sciences programs, including philosophy, English and history.” bit.ly/4hOyf9T

As my colleague @RSeltzer notes in @chronicle's daily briefing, Republicans are turning many statehouses' attention to higher ed. We're about to witness a lot of activity around DEI, gender, tenure, and shared governance come 2025: chronicle.com/newsletter/dai…