The requests from about 130 students were dumped on an anonymous Internet message board, documenting approved and denied requests from CSU Chico students between June 7 and Aug. 10.

Higher education is playing a critical role in upskilling and reskilling the American workforce to support career changes, while also stemming the fall in our nation's rate of innovation.

Academic program reviews can make faculty feel blindsided, leadership feel like faculty are ignoring financial realities, and students feel enormous uncertainty.

"I get dozens and dozens of messages from worried Afghans. But now we can tell them we've got something in place, that hopefully, we can help you with," said Kazem-Stojanovic, the core faculty member at San Jose State University's Human Rights Institute.