Higher Ed’s Bad Vibes

College Matters from The Chronicle · Mar 25, 2026 · 36m

After about a year of battling with the Trump administration, higher-education leaders and analysts are collectively catching their breath. But this doesn’t feel like a break: The discourse around colleges and universities of late has taken on a dire tone. There’s open talk about the end of the great American research university as we know it. And no one feels fine.

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