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1 month ago | 
chronicle.com | Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez
A college-presidency transition defined by a pivot on DEI A presidential shift on DEI. Three years ago, when Santa J. Ono became president of the University of Michigan, he told the campus that it was essential to “believe in and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.” This month, after he was announced as the sole finalist to lead the University of Florida, he said that he had been wrong.
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1 month ago | 
chronicle.com | Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez
After federal warning, U. of Virginia leaders say they will quickly dismantle DEI. U. of Virginia officials heed Trump administration’s warning to “dismantle DEI apparatuses.” In 2020, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors endorsed a plan to double the number of underrepresented faculty by 2030 and build a student population that better reflected the state’s racial and socioeconomic diversity. Last month, the board voted unanimously to rescind those goals.
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
chronicle.com | Beckie Supiano |Alexandra Dufresne |Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez
Diversity officers are ready to fight back. Diversity officers ready to advocate for their work, despite the risks. Diversity officers, many of whom were hired by colleges just a few years ago, have spent the last few years fielding attacks from state and federal lawmakers and trying to justify their existence. They are now seeing jobs being cut, departments being eliminated, and student-support programs ending, among other things.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez
After botched donation, Florida A&M University’s interim president wants senior leaders out. The fallout continues from Florida A&M University’s donation fumble. Florida A&M University’s interim president demanded the immediate resignation of multiple leaders in his cabinet, according to a copy of an email obtained by The Chronicle.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
chroni.cl | Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez
Why Howard University hasn’t spoken up about Kamala Harris’s presidential run In the two weeks since Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, her alma mater, one of the nation’s most prominent HBCUs, has remained silent.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez
How one university cut an entire DEI division The University of Texas at Austin laid off dozens of employees in April, most working in the division of campus and community engagement. Though employees were aware that Senate Bill 17, which banned diversity training and programs that promote differential treatment on the basis of race, gender, or sexuality at public colleges in Texas, for many the news came as a shock.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez
When your dream job isn’t enough In 2019 he got a tenure-track position in his field. Three years later, he resigned. Michael Chen (above) accepted the job as an assistant professor of public health at what was then Nazareth College (the institution became a university last year), thinking he could spend the next three decades there. Instead, he burnt out. Our Beckie Supiano tells Chen’s story, one that’s emblematic of the lack of support for the faculty work force.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez
To stamp out diversity work in higher ed, lawmakers are adding oversight. Republicans believe banning DEI in higher education is not enough. In some states, lawmakers have enacted an additional oversight to monitor administrators and professors at public institutions where bans are in place. Our Maggie Hicks explains. Shaun Harper’s public profile has grown along with the surge in diversity, equity, and inclusion work at colleges.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
chronicle.com | Claire Wallace |Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez
We examined our reader data to tell the story of 2023. Your interests define your year — and ours. These topics and stories generated the most reader attention in 2023. We measured reader attention through time spent on articles, downloads of reports, and website searches, among other things. Unlike other end-of-year lists, ours isn’t curated by editors, but by you.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
chronicle.com | Luna Laliberte |Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez
Hispanic Americans want to go to college. They’re more likely than their white counterparts to consider it. They’re also more likely to believe that colleges are fulfilling their promises to society. In a national poll by The Chronicle, 75 percent of Hispanic respondents with no more than a high-school diploma said they had considered college, compared with 60 percent of white respondents.
