Teaching and Learning
Ask Your Students Why They Use AI (Ernesto Reyes, Inside Higher Ed, October 22, 2025): The answer may surprise you.
How Will ED’s Latest Layoffs Affect Students with Disabilities? (Jessica Blake, Inside Higher Ed, October 22, 2025): Inside Higher Ed spoke with a leading advocate for students with learning disabilities to hear what the consequences will be across colleges and universities.
Making Gen-Ed Relevant (Beckie Supiano, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 17, 2025): For one science professor, it’s about connecting to what motivates students.
10 Ways AI Is Ruining Your Students’ Writing (Wendy Laura Belcher, Chronicle of Higher Education, September 16, 2025): And how to help them see that AI cannot craft good essays.
The Trump Administration’s Compact for Higher Education
Higher Education’s Compact with America: Shared Principles for the Common Good (American Association of Colleges & Universities and the Phi Beta Kappa Society, October 17, 2025): A statement of principles issued jointly by the American Association of Colleges and Universities and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. It was developed in collaboration with college and university presidents and other educational leaders across the country. In addition, Three dozen higher-ed associations signed a statement opposing the White House’s offer. “It would impose unprecedented litmus tests on colleges and universities as a condition for receiving ill-defined ‘federal benefits’ related to funding and grants,” they wrote.
Our Politics Differ, But We Agree: Trump’s ‘Compact’ Violates Academic Freedom (Robert P. George et al, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 16, 2025): Using federal funds to dictate who colleges admit and what faculty can say crosses a dangerous line.
Wash U Will Not Endorse Compact (Chronicle Staff, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 22, 2025): Of the nine, only the University of Texas at Austin hasn’t commented publicly on its response to the document.
Arizona Rejects Compact, Others Leave Options Open (Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed, October 20, 2025): Monday’s deadline to provide feedback on the Trump administration’s proposed deal passed with no signatories and silence from some university leaders invited to join.
Vanderbilt Didn’t Accept or Reject the Compact (Francie Diep, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2025): The Chancellor plans to provide feedback instead.
U. of Virginia and Dartmouth Reject Compact as Trump Invites Some Colleges to Meet (Claire Murphy and Francie Diep, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 17, 2025): The White House invited representatives from the four remaining compact recipients that had not yet responded, in addition to Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Kansas, and Arizona State University, to discuss the proposal.
University of Virginia Declines Trump Deal for Priority Federal Funding (Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, October 17, 2025): The fifth of nine universities to decline the offer, stating that “A contractual arrangement predicating assessment on anything other than merit will undermine the integrity of vital…research and further erode confidence in American higher education.”
Penn’s President Declines Trump’s Compact Offer, Joining Brown and MIT (Claire Murphy, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 16, 2025): J. Larry Jameson said he provided “focused feedback” to the Department of Education that highlighted “areas of existing alignment as well as substantive concerns” the university continues to have.
USC Rejects Trump Proposal for Funding in Exchange for Policy Changes (Julia Barajas, LAist, October 16, 2025): The University of Southern California becomes the fourth of nine universities to reject the administration’s “Compact.”
Extra Credit Reading
Trump’s Unprecedented Actions Deepen Asymmetric Divides (Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings Institution, PRRI Survey, October 22, 2025): Some 70 percent(and 58% of Republicans) don’t think the feds should have the authority to dictate admissions, faculty hiring, and curricula.
College Has a Positive RPI for Most, but Outcomes Vary Widely (Jessica Blake, Inside Higher Ed, October 17, 2025): 70 percent of the country’s college graduates see their investment pay off within 10 years, but that outcome correlates strongly to the state where a student obtains their degree, according to the Strada Foundation’s latest State Opportunity Index.
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