Want to Revamp Your Curriculum? Here’s How to Avoid a Quagmire.

Faculty members will be on guard. To reassure them, leaders must share goals and visions, and frankly discuss how changes could affect careers and budgets.

Lessons for College Leaders

Looking for tips on how to get faculty members on board with a new initiative? Want advice from veteran presidents? We’ve compiled articles from Idea Lab, our section on colleges solving problems, to help you be a better leader. Buy a copy here.

Athletics

How the NCAA’s March Madness Windfall Makes Its Way to Colleges

The tournament is as lucrative as ever for the association and its member institutions. The formulas for revenue distribution make sure that the power conferences get the most.

Special Reports

DeVos Has Nixed Several Obama-Era Rules. Here’s What’s Next.

Lawsuits, for one thing.

Research

Quiet White House Science Office Stirs Fears but Also Raises Some Hopes

The leaderless office is the main coordinating body for officials throughout the government to confer on a range of scientific matters affecting their agencies.

Government

Education Dept. Wants to Block States’ Student-Loan Rules. States Are Fighting Back.

Several states are considering — or have passed — bills to tighten the rules governing companies that service student loans, and the department’s new guidance would pre-empt that legislation.

On Leadership

Bringing More Diversity to Leadership

Joyce C. Ester, president of Normandale Community College, in Minnesota, talks about how colleges can be more intentional about increasing the diversity of their leaders.

The Daily Briefing

The Daily Briefing tells individual subscribers everything they need to know about higher ed. Here’s a sample.

The Chronicle Review

Not Here to Make Friends

The academic job market brings out the worst in us. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Advice

Administration 101: The Honeymoon May Be Brief

How to make the most of those early months on the job.

Lingua Franca

The ‘Haves’ and ‘Haven’ts’ of the Past

Lucy Ferriss revises her view of archaic language in Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach, set during the late 1930s and World War II.