Eric Kelderman
@etkeld
Senior Writer for @chronicle. Baseball fan (#NATITUDE), Des Moines, IA native, trombonist. He/Him/His. [email protected]
chronicle.com/article/in-a-k… Harvard University squared off against the Trump administration Monday in a Boston courthouse, the first big test in its legal battle to restore more than $2 billion in canceled federal research grants and avoid sweeping oversight by the government.
If you didn’t hear this story from Anas Baba on NPR today, you should take a listen. He walked 3 hours to find a working internet connection to file the story. npr.org/2025/07/25/nx-…
.@ThaiAliFloyd is also the first woman to hold this position at any #HBCU. bit.ly/46UNv1I
Phillies debut the “Coldplay Kiss Cam”. Wait for it…
Scientific studies are expensive. A close look at one university's cancer-research lab shows why and the role indirect cost reimbursement plays in making such studies possible. chroni.cl/46bDUU6
Could the Trump administration strike a ruinous blow to American science at a time when it is need of reinvestment, not retrenchment? “This is another Sputnik moment in front of us,” a former MIT president, said. chronicle.com/article/the-wr…
The NIH has disappeared dozens of grant applications. Not rejected them, but shoved them out of the peer-review pipeline into an administrative no man’s land. And there’s no clear exit. chroni.cl/45VTeEb
DHS said it will send an administrative subpoena to Harvard for records relating to student-visa holders dating back to Jan. 1, 2020 dhs.gov/news/2025/07/0…
On the other end of the House settlement, of college sports history, many athletes have been left behind. Like, for example, Nick and Noah Wanzer, twins who were both college divers until they weren't anymore. washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/07…
New: Penn just struck an agreement with the feds to resolve its Title IX probe, promising to scrub a trans swimmer's records and apologize to female athletes. Several cases the Trump admin is prosecuting in its spree against trans athletes are years-old. chronicle.com/article/trumps…
Jim Ryan’s ouster at UVa has left professors reeling. In advancing Trump’s higher-ed agenda, is pressuring individual presidents to resign the next arrow in the quiver? chroni.cl/4lAGO9l
Chinese students’ status at U.S. colleges is uncertain amid trade negotiations and promises to begin “aggressively” revoking their visas. But this is not the first time that they’ve been used as political pawns — and the unpredictability can take a toll. chroni.cl/4lCLbAR
Would you believe James Wood, Bryce Harper and Juan Soto each hit exactly 31 homers in their first 162 games with the Nationals? masnsports.com/blog/entry/woo…
Here's background on the first Trump administration's proposed "duration of status" rule, which would have limited student visas to two to four years. Currently, most students are granted visas for the duration of their studies. opencampus.org/2020/09/28/a-n…
The Trump administration has drafted a proposed rule that would cap the amount of time international students can study in the U.S., revisiting a regulatory change proposed during Trump 1.0 that failed to make it across the finish line. nafsa.org/regulatory-inf…
FL Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) talked for an hour yesterday at a press conference announcing plans to create a new accreditor. After it was over, it still wasn't clear what the new organization would really look like or how it would operate. chronicle.com/article/6-stat…
Black colleges are pausing research, losing scholarships, and rethinking how they define their mission as federal agencies cut Black-focused grants More than $140 million in grants at HBCUs have been terminated due to Trump's policies targeting DEI shorturl.at/JEZpI
chronicle.com/article/hbcus-… A half-century-long federal effort to turn more than a dozen HBCUs into Research 1 powerhouses has been significantly set back by Trump’s attack on so-called DEI-related research
chronicle.com/article/6-stat… Thursday’s announcement didn’t offer many specifics — including about how the organization would work, when it might be operational, and whether the campuses in participating university systems would even seek accreditation from the new commission.
SOTO HOMER AGAIN Most multi-homer games before turning 27: Juan Soto: 27 Jimmie Foxx: 26 Mel Ott: 25 Eddie Mathews: 25 Alex Rodriguez: 25 !!!
The @Mets have a new team home run leader this season 👀 Juan Soto crushes No. 19, his second of the game!