Randy Lyhus

Jun 5, 2024 | chronicle.com | Matt Burgess |Randy Lyhus

A few days ago, a Yale University history postdoc named David Austin Walsh blew up the internet with a since-deleted X post lamenting the fact that being a white male helped make him “unemployable as a 20th-century American historian.” The post went viral in part because Walsh, in addition to being an early-career academic, is known as a prominent progressive polemicist.

May 17, 2024 | chronicle.com | Brian F. O’Leary |Audrey Williams June |Randy Lyhus

In the last year, cuts to programs have surfaced at colleges small and large, public and private. Bradley University, mired in a financial crisis, announced in December that it would cut 15 programs and another five would no longer be offered as majors. At Baldwin Wallace University, two consecutive years of operating in the red pushed the institution to announce in January that it would cut or consolidate 13 programs.

Sep 13, 2023 | chronicle.com | Emma Pettit |Brian O'Leary |Randy Lyhus

Over the past two and a half years, combatting perceived out-of-control leftism in higher education has become not only a salient conservative talking point but a legislative priority in some states. Since 2021, Republican state lawmakers have advanced bills that aim to restrict how “divisive concepts” and other ideas can be discussed on campus.