Adrienne Lu
@adriennelu.bsky.social
Senior reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Ed writing about what it's like to live and work in higher ed. Get in touch: [email protected]; Signal adriennelu.60
A college admits its faculty members were given incorrect information about how much they had to work over the summer. Now it's demanding to be repaid
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A Texas College Demands Faculty Repay Their Summer Salaries
Mixed messages about teaching requirements confused faculty members planning summer courses.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A college admits its faculty members were given incorrect information about how much they had to work over the summer. Now it's demanding to be repaid
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Every faculty member should read this @bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social story on how faculty are and aren’t using AI www.chronicle.com/article/ai-h...
AI Has Joined the Faculty
More instructors are teaching with it. Is it making their courses better or dragging the profession down?
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November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Every faculty member should read this @bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social story on how faculty are and aren’t using AI www.chronicle.com/article/ai-h...
This seems to be happening a lot these days:
I wrote about the University of Nebraska at Lincoln’s recent proposal to cut six academic programs. Campus leaders say they need to close a budget gap. Professors say the process has been opaque and flawed.
U. of Nebraska’s Attempt to Measure Academic Programs’ Productivity Draws Faculty Ire
Administrators at the Lincoln campus say insufficient state aid and a decline in enrollment resulted in a $27.5-million budget deficit.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
This seems to be happening a lot these days:
I’ve heard this a few times today:
Alternative headline: you would have to pay me at least six times as much to be a college president compared to my faculty salary.
Your College President Makes Six Times as Much as You
Meanwhile, faculty pay hasn’t kept pace with inflation.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I’ve heard this a few times today:
If your college president’s salary keeps growing and yours does not, you are not alone. We crunched the numbers and the disparity is growing www.chronicle.com/article/your...
Your College President Makes Six Times as Much as You
Meanwhile, faculty pay hasn’t kept pace with inflation.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
If your college president’s salary keeps growing and yours does not, you are not alone. We crunched the numbers and the disparity is growing www.chronicle.com/article/your...
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NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
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What does the killing of Charlie Kirk mean for higher ed and the country? Listen to the College Matters podcast, where we dive into it all. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
September 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What does the killing of Charlie Kirk mean for higher ed and the country? Listen to the College Matters podcast, where we dive into it all. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
What will Charlie Kirk’s killing mean? www.chronicle.com/article/maki...
Charlie Kirk’s Killing Silences a Conservative Voice. His Movement May Grow Louder.
The founder of Turning Point USA was shot at a campus speaking event, injecting urgency and solemnity into a broader debate about political intolerance in higher education.
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September 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
What will Charlie Kirk’s killing mean? www.chronicle.com/article/maki...
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Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed Wednesday while speaking at Utah Valley University, had become a face of conservative activism on college campuses.
Charlie Kirk, a Leader of the Right’s Higher-Ed-Reform Movement, Is Shot and Killed on a Utah Campus
The founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative organization known for its combative campus activism, was killed while speaking at Utah Valley University.
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September 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed Wednesday while speaking at Utah Valley University, had become a face of conservative activism on college campuses.
U of Oregon will lay off dozens of employees to close budget deficit, including 20 non tenure track faculty, but will not lay off any tenure track faculty president.uoregon.edu/september-bu...
September budget reduction information
President Karl Scholz and Provost Christopher P. Long sent the following message to staff and faculty on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025.
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September 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
U of Oregon will lay off dozens of employees to close budget deficit, including 20 non tenure track faculty, but will not lay off any tenure track faculty president.uoregon.edu/september-bu...
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The data wizards @chronicle.com recently updated our faculty-pay transparency tool to draw on 2025 data. Worth checking out to see how #HigherEd salaries are mediated by local cost of living.
How Far Does Your Pay Go?
The average salary of an instructional faculty member is $92,823. But how far that salary goes can vary depending on where you teach and where you live. The Chronicle looked at how the salaries of ins...
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September 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The data wizards @chronicle.com recently updated our faculty-pay transparency tool to draw on 2025 data. Worth checking out to see how #HigherEd salaries are mediated by local cost of living.
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Colleges are cutting many types of departments, but religious studies in particular keeps ending up on lists of doomed programs. I looked into why: www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Why Religious Studies Is in Trouble
As colleges plan to make cuts, departments in this field are finding themselves on the chopping block.
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September 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Colleges are cutting many types of departments, but religious studies in particular keeps ending up on lists of doomed programs. I looked into why: www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
My latest, on a battle at the U of Oregon over faculty input into budget deliberations.
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The U. of Oregon Says It’s Involving Faculty in Budget Decisions. Professors Say It’s ‘Fake Shared Governance.’
The provost says he made a good-faith effort to ask faculty this summer how he should cut $25 million from the budget. Faculty say that’s a lie.
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September 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My latest, on a battle at the U of Oregon over faculty input into budget deliberations.
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NEW: The NIH just started requiring NIH-funded research to be made freely, immediately available. In response, some journals are forcing scientists to pay thousands in open-access fees to publish.
The result: chaos. The fees, one scholar says, are “out of control.” www.chronicle.com/article/maki...
The result: chaos. The fees, one scholar says, are “out of control.” www.chronicle.com/article/maki...
Making Your Research Free May Cost You
Under a new requirement that NIH-funded research be freely, immediately available, some journals are forcing researchers to pay to publish.
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August 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
NEW: The NIH just started requiring NIH-funded research to be made freely, immediately available. In response, some journals are forcing scientists to pay thousands in open-access fees to publish.
The result: chaos. The fees, one scholar says, are “out of control.” www.chronicle.com/article/maki...
The result: chaos. The fees, one scholar says, are “out of control.” www.chronicle.com/article/maki...
Red states are attacking faculty governance, my colleague Sarah Huddleston reports www.chronicle.com/article/a-mu...
State by State, Republicans Rein in Faculty Senates
Republican politicians say that professors are using governance bodies to advance ideological agendas. Faculty leaders fear they’re being written out of decision-making.
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August 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Red states are attacking faculty governance, my colleague Sarah Huddleston reports www.chronicle.com/article/a-mu...
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When George Mason's president came under attack by the Trump administration, he did what few embattled presidents dared; he spoke out and defended his actions. On Friday, he may learn whether publicly challenging the government's narrative helped or hurt him. www.chronicle.com/article/greg...
White House Tightens Screws on George Mason President, Faculty Leaders
The president of George Mason — and faculty leaders — may be punished for defending university policies.
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July 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
When George Mason's president came under attack by the Trump administration, he did what few embattled presidents dared; he spoke out and defended his actions. On Friday, he may learn whether publicly challenging the government's narrative helped or hurt him. www.chronicle.com/article/greg...
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SCOOP: The NIH is moving to prohibit funded scientists, inside and outside the agency, from collecting data about gender, according to a draft policy I obtained. It’s part of the NIH’s aggressive crackdown on gender-identity research. www.chronicle.com/article/gend...
Gender Data Would Be Off-Limits Under Proposed NIH Policy
A draft rule would bar scientists funded by the agency from collecting data about gender identity, following other steps the administration has taken to restrict research on LGBT topics.
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August 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
SCOOP: The NIH is moving to prohibit funded scientists, inside and outside the agency, from collecting data about gender, according to a draft policy I obtained. It’s part of the NIH’s aggressive crackdown on gender-identity research. www.chronicle.com/article/gend...
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When obituaries go awry.
Via this week’s Laurels & Darts/ @columjournreview.bsky.social
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Via this week’s Laurels & Darts/ @columjournreview.bsky.social
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August 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
When obituaries go awry.
Via this week’s Laurels & Darts/ @columjournreview.bsky.social
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Via this week’s Laurels & Darts/ @columjournreview.bsky.social
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George Mason University’s Board of Visitors gave Gregory Washington, its politically embattled president, a raise Friday following a series of federal investigations over his efforts to racially diversify its faculty ranks. chroni.cl/40N7PhN
In a Plot Twist, George Mason’s Politically Embattled President Gets a Raise
The Trump administration had accused him of discriminating against white men in his post-George Floyd efforts to diversify the college’s faculty ranks.
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August 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
George Mason University’s Board of Visitors gave Gregory Washington, its politically embattled president, a raise Friday following a series of federal investigations over his efforts to racially diversify its faculty ranks. chroni.cl/40N7PhN
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When George Mason University’s president came under attack by the Trump administration, he did what few embattled presidents dared; he spoke out and defended his actions. On Friday, he may learn whether it helped or hurt him. chroni.cl/4lbJjhH
White House Tightens Screws on George Mason President, Faculty Leaders
The president of George Mason — and faculty leaders — may be punished for defending university policies.
chroni.cl
July 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
When George Mason University’s president came under attack by the Trump administration, he did what few embattled presidents dared; he spoke out and defended his actions. On Friday, he may learn whether it helped or hurt him. chroni.cl/4lbJjhH
Northwestern University cuts more than 400 staff positions (about half of which were vacant) amid funding freeze www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/29/n...
Northwestern University eliminates more than 400 staff positions amid funding freeze
Northwestern University has eliminated about 425 staff positions, the latest cost-cutting measure amid the Trump administration’s funding freeze.
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July 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Northwestern University cuts more than 400 staff positions (about half of which were vacant) amid funding freeze www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/29/n...