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  • Budget Crunch

    October 21, 2026 · 31 min

    Colleges across the country are cutting programs and slashing budgets on a grand scale. What began as a slow trickle from some seemingly unlikely places, like Princeton and MIT, has become a sector-wide deluge. Wealthy private colleges…

  • Higher Ed’s Third Rails

    October 14, 2026 · 36 min

    For weeks, the world has been reeling over allegations that multiple Cornell University students raped a woman at a fraternity house. The lurid case has renewed calls for banning fraternities, but pushback from alumni and fears of the…

  • Rape, Frats and Rage at Cornell

    October 7, 2026 · 43 min

    The details of a lawsuit filed last month by a former Cornell University student, who says she was raped two years ago by multiple men at the Chi Phi fraternity house, are tough to stomach. Ketamine, alcohol, and misogyny figure…

  • Here Come the AI Police

    September 30, 2026 · 36 min

    Nearly four years after the introduction of ChatGPT, colleges and universities have propagated plenty of rules related to students’ use of AI. But what about administrators and faculty? Can they live by the same standards they’ve handed…

  • Race-Baiting and Football Collide in Texas

    September 23, 2026 · 22 min

    University of Texas at Austin football fans have good reason to be happy right now. After narrowly defeating the Ohio State University Buckeyes earlier this month, the Longhorns are sitting pretty at No. 1 in the college football rankings…

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  • Jodi Kantor on Harassment, Hope, and Higher Ed

    September 16, 2026 · 39 min

    Jodi Kantor, whose reporting for The New York Times helped expose years of sexual-misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein, has been thinking a lot lately about the next generation. What will a fulfilling career look like a decade…

  • ‘Grit’ Guru Angela Duckworth Says Willpower is Overrated

    September 9, 2026 · 43 min

    Angela Duckworth, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, burst onto the scene more than a decade ago with a seemingly simple theory about successful people. They are incredibly determined, Duckworth argued, exhibiting…

  • College Matters Returns

    September 2, 2026 · 2 min

    Is the student reading crisis real? Is AI panic justified? What’s next for the partisan battles over higher education? Each week, The Chronicle of Higher Education’s podcast delves into the thorniest issues facing colleges and…

  • Reading Stoner

    August 5, 2026 · 51 min

    More than 60 years after its publication, John Williams’s novel Stoner remains a revelatory portrait of higher education and the professoriate. Spanning much of the first half of the 20th century, the novel follows William Stoner from his…

  • The Endlessly Divisive SAT

    July 22, 2026 · 39 min

    The pandemic prompted many universities to drop standardized-testing requirements for applicants, and a lot of institutions remain test-optional today. But some high-profile universities, including all of the members of the Ivy League…

  • Higher Ed and America

    July 8, 2026 · 30 min

    As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, the nation’s colleges and universities are experiencing some growing pains. Older than the country itself, American higher education is a big, bold, polarizing enterprise that people…

  • Another U. of Florida Search Goes Sideways

    June 24, 2026 · 32 min

    The leadership carousel at the University of Florida has turned swiftly of late. Now on its second interim president in as many years, and fresh off of a failed presidential search last summer, the state’s flagship is desperate to install…

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About the show

Higher education is at the center of the biggest stories in the country today, and College Matters is here to make sense of it all. This podcast is a production of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the nation's leading independent newsroom covering colleges.