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What to know about new social-media screening for international students

3 days ago | chronicle.com | Karin Fischer

Questions, and some answers, about social-media vettingThe U.S. Department of State has begun screening the social-media accounts of all international students applying for student visas, resuming interviews after a worldwide three-week suspension. Students are required to make their accounts public and provide their social-media handles as part of their visa applications.
Could New Social-Media Screening Create a Student-Visa Bottleneck?

5 days ago | chronicle.com | Karin Fischer

A new policy for vetting the social-media accounts of all international students applying for student visas has led to confusion and concern that it will slow down an already-delayed process. The U.S. Department of State announced last week it would resume student-visa interviews after a worldwide suspension of more than three weeks to put the new guidelines in place. With the clock ticking down to the start of the fall semester, it will be a race to handle thousands of visa applications.
Loans, Fees, and TV Money: Where Colleges Are Finding the Funds to Pay Athletes

1 week ago | chronicle.com | Nell Gluckman

This month, a judge approved a $2.8-billion settlement that will reshape college sports. The agreement, known colloquially as the House settlement, will create millions in new expenses for dozens of athletic departments by allowing colleges to pay players and removing limits to scholarships that campuses can award. Or subscribe now to read with unlimited access for as low as $10/month.
Columbia Got Some NIH Funding Back. Then It Didn’t.

1 week ago | chronicle.com | Stephanie Lee

The National Institutes of Health is lifting its monthslong freeze on all research funding to Columbia University, according to an email sent to agency staff Wednesday. The announcement appears to undo the federal agency’s decisions this spring to stop paying scientists working on existing projects and to block new funding to the university. In the email, obtained by Or subscribe now to read with unlimited access for as low as $10/month.
An expanded travel ban could ensnare many more foreign students

1 week ago | chronicle.com | Karin Fischer

More African students are coming to the U.S. A travel ban could stop that. African countries that have been promising new sources of international students could be included in an expanded travel ban under consideration by the Trump administration. Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal are on a list of 36 countries whose citizens could face restrictions coming to the United States. Meanwhile, administration officials backed off threats to expel Chinese students as part of a trade deal with China.
Facing Research Cuts, Officials at U. of Iowa Spoke of a ‘Limited Ability to Publicly Fight This’

1 week ago | chronicle.com | Megan Zahneis

The National Institutes of Health’s announcement in late February that it would cap indirect research funding at 15 percent sent universities across the nation into a panic. Emails obtained by The Chronicle via a public-records request offer a glimpse into how one research-intensive institution reacted in the immediate aftermath of the unexpected news — with confusion, concern, and at times, a sense of powerlessness. Or subscribe now to read with unlimited access for as low as $10/month.
Transitions: New President Named at U. of San Francisco; Iowa State U. President to Retire

1 week ago | chronicle.com | Julia Piper

CHIEF EXECUTIVESAppointmentsSalvador D. Aceves, president of Regis University, in Denver, has been named president of the University of San Francisco. Michael B. Alexander, former president of Lasell University, has been named interim president of Western New England University. F. DuBois Bowman, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, has been named president of Morehouse College, in Georgia. Michael S.
The Woke Medical School?

1 week ago | chronicle.com | Len Gutkin

In a recent essay in our pages, the physicians Sally Satel and Thomas S. Huddle probe and palpate some “dubious strains of social-justice advocacy infiltrating medicine,” especially medical education. The enumerated ills are many, including intrusive pro-Palestinian activism disrupting hospital activity, doctrinaire pseudo-scientific assertions about the sources of racial health disparities, and institutional accreditation conditioned on “unconscious bias training,” which probably doesn’t work.
Advice | Admin 101: How to Fix Our Cold, Inefficient Hiring

2 weeks ago | chronicle.com | David Perlmutter

The first time I served on a faculty search committee, I felt awkward and unsure of my role. After all, we were looking to hire an assistant professor, and just two years earlier, I had been a candidate myself for the same type of position. What most stood out to me then — and still resonates all these years later — was a comment made by a senior professor on the committee: “Remember: If the candidates are good enough for us, then we have to show we’re good enough for them.
Santa Ono Wanted a Presidency. He Became a Pariah.

2 weeks ago | chronicle.com | Jack Stripling

How did it all go so horribly wrong for Santa J. Ono? Was it when Ono, a respected immunologist and the former president of the University of Michigan, appeared for a public job interview and seemed to feign ignorance on the efficacy of vaccine mandates? Or when he struggled to answer whether any doctors at Michigan had ever performed sex-reassignment surgery on minors?