Academe Today

Students

Trump Will End DACA in 6 Months, Confirming Dreamers’ Fears and Putting Onus on Congress

A program that has given some 800,000 undocumented immigrants a chance to attend college, work, and build lives in the United States will be phased out after a delay to give Congress a chance to come up with a legislative fix, the U.S. attorney general announced on Tuesday.

Administration

What Major Universities Had to Say About Trump’s Move to Roll Back DACA

Colleges were virtually unanimous in their condemnation of the administration’s action. Some also outlined under what circumstances they would share students’ information with authorities.

Special Reports

Promise and Peril for Undocumented Students

Here’s a selection of Chronicle articles with background and context on the history of the deferred-action program and its vulnerable participants.

The Chronicle Review

Scholarship and Protest in the Age of Trump

Protests at conferences? Social-media campaigns against speakers? How political scientists are responding to Trump.

Chronicle Focus

In a new feature, available to individual subscribers only, The Chronicle offers carefully curated collections of articles on important issues in higher education. So far, there are more than 25. Here are a couple of examples:

Best Ideas for Teaching

Professors are trying whatever strategies it takes to liven up the classroom and help students master and remember material. This 44-page collection describes some of their innovative teaching ideas — both high-tech and low-tech ones.

Mental-Health Issues in Students

As the incidence of anxiety disorders and depression among students increases, colleges are struggling to respond. The nine articles in this collection describe what campus officials are doing to cope with mental-health issues on campus.

The Chronicle Review

Don’t Bow to Blowhards

Colleges aren’t obliged, in the name of free speech, to host every maniac with a Twitter following.

Advice

Scholars Talk Writing: Christie Henry

“Most scientists I know are wonderful storytellers, but they are taught from early in their careers to edit out the story, to redact the personal.”

Vitae

The Professor Is In: Relevant Resistance in the Classroom

In the “post-fact” timeline in which we find ourselves, our very function as educators becomes to resist it.

Lingua Franca

Spelling, Agin

Is it elitist to call out Donald Trump’s typos and errors? Lucy Ferriss considers.