Campus Docket

What happens when university hospitals become the financial engine for higher ed institutions and legal risk management starts driving decision-making? In this episode of Campus Docket, Neal Hutchens joins Scott Schneider and Eric Kelderman to unpack the legal, political, and cultural forces reshaping higher ed governance.

In this episode, Campus Docket unpacks how the Department of Justice is using the False Claims Act to target higher ed institutions over civil rights and DEI policies. Guest Zachary Cunha joins the show to explain the legal mechanics, potential fallout, and what campus leaders need to know as compliance enters a politically charged new era.

College sports are in the middle of a legal and financial overhaul. In this episode, Tulane law professor and associate provost for NCAA compliance Gabe Feldman joins Campus Docket to unpack what NIL, athlete pay, and the House settlement really mean for the future of college athletics.

For many small colleges, surviving today’s higher ed landscape feels like walking a tightrope in a windstorm—balancing shrinking enrollments, rising compliance costs, and cultural flashpoints that threaten to pull them off course. In this episode of Campus Docket, Marjorie Hass, president of the Council of Independent Colleges, joins hosts Scott D. Schneider and Eric Kelderman to unpack what’s keeping college presidents up at night.

When Walter Kimbrough says leading a college today is “like riding out a hurricane,” he means it—literally and figuratively. As a seasoned HBCU president and current interim leader at Talladega College, Kimbrough joins Campus Docket co-hosts Eric Kelderman and Scott Schneider to talk crisis leadership, navigating culture wars, and how higher ed can foster civic dialogue in a post-truth world.

Colleges are staring down federal funding cuts, DEI crackdowns, Title IX battles over transgender athletes, and a looming shake‑up in big‑time college sports. Attorney Scott D. Schneider and writer Eric Kelderman break down the legal storms reshaping higher ed and explain why the stakes have never been higher.