College Matters from The Chronicle

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  • Everything happening in the world converges in one place: higher education. Political unrest, the future of AI, the dizzying cost of everything — all of it is playing out on college campuses. On College Matters, a podcast from The Chronicle of Higher Education, we explore the world through the prism of the nation’s colleges and universities.
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Episodes
  • How Bad Are Helicopter Parents?

    How Bad Are Helicopter Parents?
    Feb 18 2025
    With GPS tracking, “concierge moms,” and high-priced dormitory-design consultants, it’s easier than ever for college students’ parents to go overboard. But is extreme helicopter parenting as pervasive as it seems? And how much are changing cultural norms affecting the relationships parents have with their young-adult children? We asked Lisa Heffernan, co-founder of Grown and Flown, a wildly popular online resource for parents, to break down what’s really happening between parents and young college students. Related Reading: Parents, Young Adult Children and the Transition to Adulthood (Pew Research Center) Tuition: $9,400. Dorm Room Interior Designer: $10,000? (The New York Times) Varsity Blues (Chronicle coverage) Surveillance Parents Face the Ultimate Firewall: Freshman Year (The Wall Street Journal) Guest: Lisa Heffernan, co-founder of Grown and Flown For more on today’s episode, visit chronicle.com/collegematters. We aim to make transcripts available within a day of an episode’s publication.
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    39 mins
  • Unwinding DEI: Part II

    Unwinding DEI: Part II
    Feb 11 2025
    Political opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs has been building for years, but something happened last October that felt like a turning point. In a deeply reported article for The New York Times Magazine, Nicholas Confessore cast doubt on the effectiveness of one of the nation’s best-funded DEI programs. Titled “The University of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong?,” Confessore’s article added fuel to a debate over whether DEI programs are meeting their stated goals or actually making campus climates worse. In an interview with College Matters, Confessore talks about his investigation, and what it meant for The Gray Lady to take a critical view of DEI. Related Reading: The University of Michigan Doubled Down on DEI. What Went Wrong? (The New York Times Magazine) Where DEI Efforts Are Ambitious, Well Funded, and Taking Fire From All Sides (The Chronicle) The Dismantling of DEI (The Chronicle) Statement from Tabbye Chavous, vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at the University of Michigan Guest: Nicholas Confessore, a political and investigative reporter at The New York Times and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. For more on today’s episode, visit chronicle.com/collegematters. We aim to make transcripts available within a day of an episode’s publication.
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    55 mins
  • Unwinding DEI: Part I

    Unwinding DEI: Part I
    Feb 4 2025
    During his first weeks in office, President Donald Trump has waged war on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. But the effort to stamp out DEI on college campuses has been years in the making across state legislatures. How did DEI take hold in higher education? And what does it really mean to “ban” this kind of work? Related Reading: DEI Legislation Tracker Tracking Higher Ed’s Dismantling of DEI A Slap in the Face: How UT-Austin Axed a DEI Division Behind the Lines of Texas A&M’s Diversity War (Washington Post) Guest: Daarel Burnette II, senior editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education. For more on today’s episode, visit chronicle.com/collegematters. We aim to make transcripts available within a day of an episode’s publication.
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    49 mins

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