The president-elect has laid out big changes for America’s classrooms.

Howard University is expected to regain its R1 research status, becoming the only historically Black institution with this distinction.

Colleges allow students to pay off their parking tickets and other citations through gifts of food items to the student pantry. Bartering with food may be common in the dining hall, but a growing number of college administrators will also accept canned food items to forgive student parking citations. Rather than paying off their debts for improper or hazardous parking with cash, college students can opt to donate nonperishable food items to their institution, which are in turn given to their peers in the on-campus food pantry.

A Chronicle project explores how professors’ purchasing power is affected by the cost of living.