List of article by topic
Conferences
- Scholars at Risk US Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/event/sar-us-midatlantic-conference/
Op eds
- NYTimes: Trump Isn’t Fixing America’s Campuses. He’s Bleeding Them Dry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/opinion/trump-colleges-universities.html
- NYTimes: Is There a Smart Way to Cede Power to Donald Trump?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/opinion/trump-havard-brown-universities.html
- The Dangers of the Manhattan Statement
- NYTimes: I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/hungary-viktor-orban.html
- NYTimes: Antisemitism Is an Urgent Problem. Too Many People Are Making Excuses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/opinion/antisemitism-jewish-hate.html
- This Is a Summer to Organize (opinion)
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/06/03/summer-organize-opinion
- NYTimes: Teachers Saved My Life. Why Do We Treat Them So Poorly?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/opinion/teachers-education-trump-administration.html
How best to describe the times we are in
- NYTimes: The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think It Is
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/us-typical-college-student.html
- Too many college students
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/27/college-students-degrees-jobs/
- Opinion | They’re Killing the Humanities On Purpose
https://www.chronicle.com/article/theyre-killing-the-humanities-on-purpose
- NYTimes: Trump Is Playing at Being a Wartime President
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/opinion/trump-intrusion-lincoln-roosevelt.html
- The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/harvard-trump-may-mailman.html
- The Elite-University Presidents Who Despise One Another Inside the civil war between the Ivy League and the South
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-university-presidents/683803/
- on the Conservative Playbook (2023-2024)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/us/universities-antisemitism-conservatives-liberals.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/us/harvard-president-campus-antisemitism-conservatives.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/20/us/dei-woke-claremont-institute.html
- A Year of Challenges and Uncertainty, as Told Through Data
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-year-of-challenges-and-uncertainty-as-told-through-data
- What Trump’s Bombast Reveals About His Vision for Higher Ed
- Why Universities Are So Powerless in Their Fight Against Trump
https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-universities-are-so-powerless-in-their-fight-against-trump
- NYTimes: Trump Is Winning the Race to the Bottom
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opinion/trump-america-china.html
- The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/197017/budget-bill-kill-higher-education
- NYTimes: Harvard’s Battle Is Familiar to a University the Right Forced into Exile
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/us/trump-harvard-hungary-orban-george-soros.html
- Notes from an Occupation
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/06/26/notes-from-an-occupation-marilynne-robinson/
- Academia’s Holy Warriors
https://www.chronicle.com/article/academias-holy-warriors/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opinion/trump-vance-morality.html
- Parks, libraries, museums: here’s why Trump is attacking America’s best-loved institutions | Margaret Sullivan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/02/national-parks-libraries-museums-trump
- The New Dark Age
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-defund-schools-research-republicans/682742/
- Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/donald-trumps-politics-of-plunder
- America’s Great Brain Drain
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/09/americas-great-brain-drain/
- NYTimes: Trump Battles Academia, but Especially the Ivy League
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/politics/trump-ivy-league.html
- A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency, According to 35 Legal Scholars
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-constitution-rule-of-law.html
- The 50-Year Wwar On Higher Education
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-50-year-war-on-higher-education
- NYTimes: Welcome to Trump’s Mafia State
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-universities-mafia-state.html
- For more on the steps the administration has signaled it might do to gain obesiance, this AAUP white paper from 2024 offers much insight (shared by VC):
https://www.aaup.org/file/Manufacturing Markdown.Italic(Any[“Backlash”]) final_1.pdf
- NYTimes: Trump Is Insatiable
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/opinion/trump-harvard.html
Anti-woke/anti-DEI is simply racism
- President Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden | AP News
- NYTimes: Trump Declares High-Speed Internet Program ‘Racist’ and ‘Unconstitutional’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/trump-biden-digital-equity-act.html
Freedom of expression
- Ohio State Restricts Decorations in Public Dorm Spaces
- FEMA employees put on leave after criticizing Trump administration in open letter
- NYTimes: A Critic of Universities Is Rallying to Defend Them in the Trump Era
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/arts/fire-freedom-expression-trump.html
- Ideology in the Classroom: How Faculty at US Universities Navigate Politics and Pedagogy Amid Federal Pressure Over Viewpoint Diversity and Antisemitism
https://scholarworks.brandeis.edu/esploro/outputs/report/9924494190801921
- College Employees in Kansas Can’t List Pronouns in Emails
- Texas just gutted free speech on college campuses. Is your state next?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/14/texas-campus-free-speech/
- To save themselves, universities must cultivate civic friendship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/30/universities-trump-survival-free-speech/
- Texas looks to enact restrictions on when and how students can protest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/20/texas-campus-speech-law-palestine-protests/
- Texas Governor Signs Bill to Limit Expressive Activity on Campuses
- Texas Governor Signs Law Giving Presidents Control of Faculty Senates
- NYTimes: We Watched Dozens of Graduation Speeches. Here’s What We Found.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/us/graduation-speeches-2025.html
- Mayor Adams signs executive order adopting antisemitism definition, urges Council to make it law
- The Trump administration’s big week of gaslighting and censorship
- NYTimes: A Student at Brown Channeled Elon Musk. Then He Got in Trouble.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/brown-university-newspaper-musk-doge.html
- With Comey questioning, the Trump administration again targets speech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/17/trump-freedom-of-speech-critics/
- College newspapers under pressure as immigration fears silence sources
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/17/college-newspapers-trump-international-students/
- Free speech is dead at the American university. Here’s who killed it.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/free-speech-american-universities-20250518.html
- Free Speech Expert Discusses Open Expression and Trump
- NYTimes: My Brush With Trump’s Thought Police
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/stiglitz-trump-dei.html
- NYU Withholds Diploma Due to Pro-Palestinian Commencement Speech
- NYTimes: Springsteen, in England, Blasts Trump Administration as ‘Treasonous’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/arts/music/bruce-springsteen-trump.html
Title VI
- How Leo Terrell Is Helping Trump “Root Out” Antisemitism on College Campuses — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/leo-terrell-universities-lawsuits-antisemitism
- Why the Unlikely Leader of Trump’s Antisemitism Task Force May Be the Perfect Man for the Job
Anti-woke/anti-DEI is simply racism
- Federal District Judge Rules Against Trump’s Anti-DEI Orders
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/18/federal-district-judge-rules-against-trumps-anti-dei-orders https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/2025/07/30/doj-declares-slew-dei-practices-unlawful-memo
- Colleges Rushed to Comply With Trump’s Anti-DEI Guidance. A Judge Just Struck It Down. Now What?
- NYTimes: In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/trump-diversity-black-americans.html
- Mizzou Calls Black 2 Class Event Example of “Discrimination”
- Western Kentucky U. Reviews Syllabi to Ensure ‘Alternative Viewpoints’ Due to Anti-DEI Law
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-higher-eds-dismantling-of-dei
- Justice Department Declares DEI Unlawful
- The Manhattan Statement on Higher Education
https://manhattan.institute/article/the-manhattan-statement-on-higher-education
- Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
- NIH cancels sickle cell research grant, citing DEI, doctor says – NBC4 Washington
- Colleges, companies and philanthropic groups are retooling millions of dollars in scholarships that for years supported minority students
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/anti-dei-minority-scholarships-a721ba1b
- NYTimes: How Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts Are Hurting Rural, White Americans Too
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/trump-science-nih-grants-dei-cuts.html
- NYTimes: Trump Says He Wants to Fund More Trade Schools. Just Not These.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/business/job-corps-trump-trade-schools.html
- Trump DEI Purge Made Black Women in Federal Jobs an “Easy Target” — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-black-women-minorities-careers-jobs-dismissed
- NYTimes: How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/us/politics/trump-black-history-federal-holidays.html
- HBCUs Reel as Trump Cuts Black-Focused Grants: ‘This Is Our Existence’
- NYTimes: Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/university-of-virginia-president-trump.html https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda
- NYTimes: How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/magazine/trump-civil-rights-law-discrimination.html
- NYTimes: Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opinion/black-history-trump.html
- Opinion | Here are the people Trump is trying to delete
- NYTimes: Times Sq. Sculpture Prompts Racist Backlash. To Some, That’s the Point.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/nyregion/times-square-black-woman-statue.html
- NYTimes: Justice Dept. to Use False Claims Act to Pursue Institutions Over Diversity Efforts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/politics/false-claims-act-dei-harvard.html
Visas
- After Texas relents, Trump seeks to widen ban on in-state tuition for noncitizens
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/25/in-state-tuition-undocumented-students-texas/
- Visa Delays Persist, Causing Some Students to Defer to Spring
- rump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students
- NYTimes: International Student Enrollments Stay Steady at Columbia and Princeton
- Many U.S. Colleges May Close Without Immigrants And International Students, Report Finds
- Trump administration has revoked 6,000 student visas, official says - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/19/student-visas-revoked-6000-trump/
- NYTimes: Trump’s Tactics Mean Many International Students Won’t Make It to Campus
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/trump-visa-vetting-international-students.html
- More Barriers on the Horizon for International Students
- Trump “Chipping Away” at DACA and Other Protections
- This new 250 visa fee applies to international student visas too.
- A Trial Over Campus Protest Ends with Conflicting Views of Foreign Students’ Free-Speech Rights
- NYTimes: Trump’s Student Arrests, and the Lawsuit Fighting Them, Tread New Ground
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/politics/trump-student-arrests-immigration-trial.html
- NYTimes: State Dept. Opens Investigation Into Harvard’s Use of International Visas
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/politics/state-department-trump-harvard.html
- State Department official defends canceling visas of pro-Palestinian academics - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/state-official-testimony-trump-deportations-00449634 https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-v-rubio
- Chinese Students’ Vulnerable Status Has a History — and an Impact on the Future
- How many international students attend NY colleges? Here’s what to know
- State Department pauses or delays interviews and approvals for student and exchange visitor visas
- State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/18/student-visas-social-media-vetting-state-department/ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/18/social-media-screening-student-visas-00413160 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/student-visa-applications.html
- DOJ Targets In-State Tuition for Noncitizens in Kentucky as Texas Students Fight Back
- NYTimes: Chinese Students Reconsider the U.S. as Republicans Threaten Their Visas
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/politics/trump-chinese-students-visas.html
- Attacks on Chinese Students Could Wreak Havoc on Higher Ed
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/05/30/trump-targets-chinese-students-harsh-blow-higher https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-across-u-s-fear-chill-on-enrollments-of-foreign-students
- Trump administration claims Chinese students ‘exploit’ U.S. universities
- What the New Travel Ban Means for Higher Ed
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-the-new-travel-ban-means-for-higher-ed
- The U.S. has more than 1 million foreign students. Here’s who they are.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/25/international-students-harvard-trump/
- Trump team orders stop to new student visa interviews, as it weighs expanding social media vetting
- New Visa Policies Put America First, Not China - United States Department of State
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/05/new-visa-policies-put-america-first-not-china/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/28/chinese-visas-applicants-trump-rubio/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/china-student-visas-revoke.html https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/state-department-marco-rubio-chinese-student-visas-fc8b7828
- NYTimes: Trump Says Harvard Should Limit Acceptance of International Students
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html
- Colleges Across U.S. Fear Chill on Enrollments of Foreign Students
https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-across-u-s-fear-chill-on-enrollments-of-foreign-students
- Here’s how much international students contribute to the U.S. economy
- Some foreign students fear speaking out as visa cancellations rise
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/12/international-students-visas-revoke-fear/
- NYTimes: A Columbia Activist Sought Middle Ground on Gaza. The U.S. Detained Him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/nyregion/columbia-activist-mahdawi-ice-palestinian.html
Funding cuts
- The State of Independent Technology Research 2025
https://independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-2025/ https://independenttechresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-State-of-Independent-Technology-Research-Power-in-Numbers.pdf
- DOJ Deems Definition of HSIs Unconstitutional, Won’t Defend
- Trump’s Funding Freezes Against Universities in 5 Charts
- Trump budget officials claim sweeping spending power from Congress, records show
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/19/trump-budget-congress-impoundment/
- We deny the government’s motion
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26070574-ucresearcherstayca9082125/
- New executive order puts all grants under political control - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/08/13/trump-order-puts-politics-above-peer-review
- NYTimes: Judge Declines to Order Trump Administration to Restore Research Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/nyregion/nsf-trump-stem-research-cuts.html
- Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking – The White House
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/improving-oversight-of-federal-grantmaking/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/restoring-gold-standard-science/
- Trump Puts Political Appointees in Charge of Federal Grant Decisions
- As Trump Upends Funding for Research, These Scholars Turn to GoFundMe
- By cutting science, the Defense Department is eating its seed corn
- Senate Appropriators Reject Trump’s Deep Education Cuts
- Inside the powerful task force spearheading Trump’s assault on colleges, DEI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/18/antisemitism-task-force-dei-universities-trump/
- NYTimes: Fired D.E.I. Administrator Sues the University of Michigan
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/university-michigan-lawsuit-dei-firing-rachel-dawson.html
- Higher-Ed Associations Pitch an Alternative to Trump’s Cap on Research Funding
- A Lost Generation of Researchers
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-lost-generation-of-researchers
- What Does It Cost to Run a Lab? Cancer research is expensive. Here are the price tags.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-does-it-cost-to-run-a-lab
- DOGE loses control over government grants website, freeing up billions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/27/doge-loses-control-federal-grants/
- PSC, higher-ed unions slam federal research funding cuts
https://thechiefleader.com/stories/psc-higher-ed-unions-slam-federal-research-funding-cuts,54668
- How Universities Would Overhaul Research Funding
- Research Grants Increasingly Require Compliance With Trump’s Orders. Here’s How Colleges Are Responding.
- How Senate Republicans Want to Hold Colleges Accountable
- Congressional Republicans Want to End Grad PLUS Loans. How Might It Affect Your Campus?
- CUNY advocates push for 100 M to bridge funding gap and enhance student services
- Scientific Community Fears for Future of STEM Workforce Amid NSF Overhaul
- NYTimes: White House Unveils New Details of Stark Budget Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/white-house-budget-trump.html
- New Details of Trump’s Budget Cuts Alarm Researchers
- Trump Wants Grant Makers to Become Political Appointees
CUNY to provide bridge funding for those who have lost grants
NYTimes: Funding Cuts Are a ‘Gut Punch’ for STEM Education Researchers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/science/trump-nsf-stem-education.html
- NYTimes: Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/22/upshot/nsf-grants-trump-cuts.html
‘Every Revenue Source Is at Risk’: Under Trump, Research Universities Are Cutting Back
Republicans’ Plan to Tax Higher Ed and Slash Funding Advances in Congress
https://www.chronicle.com/article/republicans-plan-to-tax-higher-ed-and-slash-funding-advances-in-congress https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Letter-House-Reconciliation-052125.pdf
- NYTimes: Republicans Harness Tax Code to Punish Trump’s Political Nemeses
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/republicans-taxes-trump-opponents.html
- Can Scientific Research Survive Without Federal Funding?
- Few support punitive funding cuts to colleges and universities
https://apnorc.org/projects/few-support-punitive-funding-cuts-to-colleges-and-universities/
- NYTimes: 9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/federally-funded-science-breakthroughs.html
- NYTimes: Where Federal Dollars Flow to Universities Around the Country
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/30/us/university-funding-research.html
- Documenting Trump’s ‘Arbitrary’ Cuts to Science
- Trump Administration Cancels 1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health (VAC)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/trump-mental-health-grants.html
- TRIO on the Chopping Block
- Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2
- U.S. attorney for D.C. accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ threatens nonprofit status
- Trump’s attacks on elite schools like Harvard and Columbia—using cuts to federal funding as a lever—are part of a larger campaign
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-college-university-fight-ae69a3e1
- Trump order restricting foreign gifts to colleges
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/trump-executive-order-college-foreign-funding-00306463
- Ex-NIH Director Says Trump Silenced Him, Others
- Another 700 NSF Grants Cut
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/04/29/another-700-nsf-grants-cut
- National Science Foundation eliminates hundreds of grants day after director resigns
- NYTimes: Mellon Foundation Announces 15 Million for Humanities Councils
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/arts/mellon-foundation-humanities-endowment.html
- ACLS, AHA, and MLA File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities - ACLS
- Executive Order Targets Undocumented Students’ In-State Tuition
Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices for April 18, 2025
Updates on NSF Priorities | NSF - National Science Foundation
https://www.nsf.gov/updates-on-priorities
- National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/science/trump-national-science-foundation-grants.html
- NSF Director Resigns
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/04/25/nsf-director-panchanathan-resigns
- Trump is destroying 100 years of competitive advantage in 100 days
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/25/us-losing-competitive-edge-science/
- CUNY’s Research on Vaccine Misinformation Halted by Trump Administration | THE CITY — NYC News
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/24/cuny-layoffs-vaccine-research-funding-cuts-misinformation-trump/
- Florida’s Own DOGE Reviews Faculty Research, Grants
- DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/11/doge-controls-federal-grant-postings/
- Trump administration to pull Maine K-12 funding over trans athletes dispute
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/11/maine-education-trump-janet-mills/
- Energy Department reduces funding for grants to colleges and universities
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/12/trump-cuts-department-of-energy/
- NYTimes: What Is Actually the Point of Treating the N.I.H. Like This?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/opinion/nih-scientists-staffing-cuts.html
- NIH Funding Opportunities (this week, from MP)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndexMobile.cfm
- These 77 Colleges Have the Most to Lose From Trump’s Cuts
https://www.chronicle.com/article/these-77-colleges-have-the-most-to-lose-from-trumps-cuts
- NYTimes: What to Know as Trump Freezes Federal Funds for Harvard and Other Universities
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/trump-university-funding-harvard.html
- The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.
- We have laws in this country
- NYTimes: Leading Nutrition Scientist Departs N.I.H., Citing Censorship
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/well/kevin-hall-nutrition-retirement-nih-censorship-rfk-maha.html
- Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump health program cuts - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/16/hhs-budget-cut-trump/
- What to Know About Trump’s Funding Threats to Colleges
- NYTimes: Judge Permanently Bars N.I.H. From Limiting Medical Research Funding
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/nih-medical-research-funding.html
- NYTimes: The N.E.H. Does What Republicans Always Wanted. DOGE Slashed It Anyway.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/humanities-cuts-tennessee-neh-doge.html
- Staff cuts begin at NEH, threatening humanities programs across U.S.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/04/10/neh-staff-cuts-reduction-in-force/
- Trump Presents Harvard With an Ultimatum for Federal Funds
- NYTimes: Columbia’s Former Leader Faced Contentious Interview After Resigning
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/nyregion/columbia-president-armstrong-federal-deposition.html
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Freezes 1 Billion for Cornell and 790 Million for Northwestern, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/cornell-northwestern-university-funds-trump.html https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-team-to-freeze-nearly-2-billion-at-cornell-and-northwestern-universities-2e13a88a
- NYTimes: Trump Has Targeted These Universities. Why?
https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-university-college.html
- Through emails and social media, colleges discover federal funds are frozen
- NSF, NIH Slash Support for Early-Career Scientists
- NIH Freezes Millions More in Funding for Columbia
NIH
- Opinion | Trump Is Defunding Medical Research. It Could Cost You Your Life. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opinion/trump-defunding-medical-research.html
- Former NIH chief calls research cuts “careless” and “heartless” | AAMC
https://www.aamc.org/news/former-nih-chief-calls-research-cuts-careless-and-heartless
- SCOTUS Ruling Has “Bleak Implications” for Researchers
- NIH Publisher Fee Cap Plan ‘Not Comprehensive Enough,’ Critics Say
- NIH Director Orders Review of All Current, Planned Research
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Updates: Supreme Court Rules N.I.H. Grants for Disfavored Research Can Be Cut
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/21/us/trump-news
- SCOTUS Says NIH Doesn’t Have to Restore Canceled Grants
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/08/21/scotus-says-nih-doesnt-have-restore-canceled https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda
- NIH Guide: Weekly Index for August 15, 2025
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndexMobile.cfm
- Gender Data Would Be Off-Limits Under Proposed NIH Policy
https://www.chronicle.com/article/gender-data-would-be-off-limits-under-proposed-nih-policy
- Trump Administration Illegally Withheld N.I.H. Funding, Watchdog Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/trump-gao-nih-funding.html
- How Many Times Can Science Funding Be Canceled?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/08/nih-funding-whiplash/683773/
- Lawsuit Over NIH Grant Funding Heads to Supreme Court
- The Trump administration has put a halt on billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health, setting up a battle with lawmakers
- Trump administration halts, then releases, NIH research funding
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/29/trump-administration-nih-funding/
- NIH director says cuts aim to reduce ‘ideological research,’ focus on health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/07/29/nih-trump-bhattacharya-budget/
- Abrupt Pause, Unpause of Grants Doesn’t End NIH Funding Concerns
- NYTimes: How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/opinion/hhs-cuts-harming-american-health.html https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/A-MESSAGE-OF-CONCERN-FROM-THE-NATIONS-HEALTH-PROFESSIONALS.pdf
- Trump’s second presidency begins: evaluating effects on the US health system - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X25001838
- NIH Plans to Cap Publisher Fees, Dilute ‘Scientific Elite’
- Stalled funding, canceled grants: How the NIH crisis is affecting Duke - The Chronicle
- The Scientific Research Lost Amid the Trump Administration’s NIH Cuts — ProPublica
https://projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-research-lost-trump/
- tracking site
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda#research
- The Scientific Research Lost Amid the Trump Administration’s NIH Cuts — ProPublica
https://projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-research-lost-trump/
- Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Despite Court Order — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nih-cuts-transgender-research-grants
- Judge Rejects Trump’s ‘Appalling’ NIH LGBTQ, Race Grant Cuts
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/judge-clashes-with-trump-justice-department-over-nih-grant-cuts https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2025/06/16/nih-grants-ordered-restored https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/16/us/trump-news
- NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts | AP News
- New HHS document details deep NIH cuts as part of Trump budget request
- NYTimes: The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/health/trump-cuts-nih-grants-research.html
- Trump Cuts Off Budding CUNY Scientists From Mentorship and Aid
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/14/cuny-urise-science-research-nih-trump/
HHS
- HHS Ends Minority Biomedical Research Support Program
DOE
- Federal Grants for Area Studies and Foreign Language at Risk
- Dems Claim ED Is Making It Harder for Students to File Financial Aid Complaints
- Agencies Share New Guidance on Foreign Threats at U.S. Colleges
- Federal investigations target college aid to immigrants and minorities - The Washington Post
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court Clears Way for Dismantling of Education Department
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/14/us/trump-news https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/14/supreme-court-education-department-/ https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/supreme-court-ruling-trump-education-department-workers-a2baa879
- The Education Department Got a Green Light to Shrink. Here Are 3 Questions About What’s Next.
- Education Department Postpones NACIQI Summer Meeting
- Florida Board of Governors to Vote on New Accreditor
- The Education Department is paying us millions not to work
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/23/education-department-layoffs-doge-afge/
- Nearly two million student loan borrowers are at risk of having their wages garnished this summer
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/student-loan-wage-garnishment-07fc4d2a https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/financial-aid/2025/06/24/federal-cuts-could-lead-reduced-financial-aid-offers
- McMahon Plays Defense on the Hill
- Judge blocks Trump bid to dismantle Department of Education
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/22/education-department-court-ruling-firings-00365170 https://apnews.com/article/education-department-shut-down-layoffs-576eef90c30fdaeb660f7f66644bad10 https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/22/education-department-fired-federal-workers-reinstated/
- Trump Nominates Iowa Regent to be Assistant Secretary of Postsecondary Ed
NEH
- NYTimes: Humanities Endowment Funds Trump’s Priorities After Ending Old Grants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/arts/national-endowment-for-the-humanities-trump-grants.html
- Federal Judge Blocks Cancellation of NEH Grants
- Will federal funding cuts spell the end for history documentaries?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/05/20/neh-grants-canceled-history-documentaries/
- NEH Announces Grant Opportunity to Create Statues of Iconic Americans for the National Garden of American Heroes | National Endowment for the Humanities
- The NIH Is Requiring Grantees to Follow Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order
- Lawsuit Against Humanities Endowment Offers Details on DOGE - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/arts/humanities-endowment-doge-grants.html
- Trump proposes eliminating the NEA and NEH as arts grants are canceled
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/05/03/trump-budget-nea-neh-eliminate/
- NYTimes: The National Endowment for the Arts Begins Terminating Grants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/arts/national-endowment-for-the-arts-grants.html
- Guidance from MAA (https://www.medievalacademy.org/; thanks EST for sharing)
NSF
- Congress Shows Resistance to Trump’s Plan to Slash Science Budgets
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/07/21/congress-shows-resistance-trumps-science-budget https://www.chronicle.com/article/trump-proposed-slashing-the-national-science-foundations-budget-a-key-senate-committee-just-refused
- Federal Grant Cuts Don’t Spare Red States, New Report Shows
- House Appropriators Propose 23% Cut to NSF
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/07/15/house-appropriators-propose-23-cut-nsf
- Senate Appropriators Reject Trump’s NSF Cuts
- NSF Indirect Cost Cap Unlawful, Judge Rules
- Trump Administration Ousts National Science Foundation from Headquarters Building
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-ousts-national-science-foundation-from-headquarters/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/25/housing-hud-relocation/
- Trump is undermining U.S. science. Here’s why that’s dangerous.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/18/trump-science-attacks-internet/
- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FY 2026 Budget Request to Congress
https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF-FY26-CJ-Entire-Rollup.pdf
- New York sues National Science Foundation over research funding restrictions
- NSF terminates huge number of grants and stops awarding new ones
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01513-1
- Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress | TIME
https://time.com/7285045/resigning-national-science-foundation-library-congress/
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-online-misinformation-grants.html
- Under Trump, National Science Foundation Cuts Off All Funding to Scientists | Scientific American
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2
- Trump Halts Grants, Caps Indirect Costs at the National Science Foundation
- Universities Sue NSF Over Indirect Research Cost Policy
- Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS
EPA
- E.P.A. Employees Are Invited to Adopt Soon-to-Be Homeless Lab Rats - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/climate/epa-lab-rat-zebra-fish-adoption.html
DOD
- Trump admin curtails colleges’ defense research
https://statements.cornell.edu/2025/20250408-federal-research-funding.cfm
Fulbright
- Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/fulbright-board-resign-trump.html https://substack.com/inbox/post/165673358
- Fulbright proposals screened for mentions of race, gender, and climate
https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/latitudes/2025-06-04
- For Fulbright Applicants, a DEI Disqualifier
NEA
- Trump Cancels Federal Research Grants. What Are the Consequences?
House bills
- Congress Could Make Paying for College Even More Complicated
- Significant Endowment Tax Increase Looms
- Here’s What Republicans’ Proposed College-Endowment Tax Could Look Like
- Republicans eye major expansion of college endowment tax
- GOP proposes five-fold increase in tax on college endowments
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/12/gop-college-endowment-tax/
- ACE’s summary of “STUDENT SUCCESS AND TAXPAYER SAVINGS PLAN” that moves to the House Budget Committee (thanks CMR)
https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Summary-Student-Success-Taxpayer-Savings-Plan.pdf
Executive orders
- Trump DEI policies threaten millions in scholarships raised by Black doctors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/13/black-doctors-scholarship-ohio/
Research funding
- Bridge the gap’: After federal grant freeze, CUNY union seeks city funding lifeline to continue research | amNewYork
https://www.amny.com/education/federal-grant-freeze-cuny-union-funding/
- CUNY warns 17 M in research grants at risk after Trump stop-work orders
DOGE
- The hidden ways Trump, DOGE are shutting down parts of the U.S. government
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/11/trump-government-operations-halt-funding-cuts/
Proposed executive budget
- What Trump’s Proposed Budget Cuts Mean for Education, Research (aims to cut at least 163 billion)
State actions
- New York Passes Law Requiring Title VI Coordinators
- Texas Lawmakers Create Overseer to Ensure Colleges Follow Laws
- When the Legislature Kills Your Department
https://www.chronicle.com/article/when-the-legislature-kills-your-department
- Legislatures Require Colleges to Cut Degrees in Low Demand
- Asm. McDonald: Assembly majority will meet on Friday to discuss federal cuts
- A 4/4 Teaching Load Becomes Law at Most of Wisconsin’s Public Universities
- Budget director says NY health care will be ‘destabilized’ by federal cuts
https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/dob-director-ny-health-care-destabilized-no-20765002.php
Institutional assaults
- The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy
- NYTimes: How Trump’s crackdown on universities is affecting the world
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/13/us/2025-06-06-int-science-reaction-index.html
- How Trump Uses the DOJ as Tool of ‘Fear-Mongering’
- How a Shadowy Online Blacklist Became a Legal Threat to Pro-Palestinian Activists – Mother Jones
- Amicus brief by AAUP, Rutgers, Middle East Studies Association
https://www.presidentsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PA-brief.pdf
- Why UVA President’s Resignation Could Be a ‘Watershed Moment’
- The U. of Virginia’s President Was Targeted Over DEI. Now He’s Resigning.
- NYTimes: What the University of Virginia Should Have Done
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/opinion/university-of-virginia-doj-trump.html
- New York City Tech/CUNY one of the highlighted BA degree granting institutions whose faculty are increasingly integrated—race/ethnicity non-white.
- In Texas, University Presidents May Soon Control Faculty Senates
- Trump Ends Vital Higher Ed Data System Training
- Project 2025 Author to Work at Education Department
- Exclusive | Leaders of CUNY, other college antisemitism hotbeds to be grilled by House panel next month
- Senate Higher Ed Bill Walks Back Some House Proposals
- Republicans are keen on college sports legislation. Democrats are not.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/06/12/congressional-hearing-on-college-sports/
Title VI
- Now Hiring: Title VI Coordinators
Admissions
- The Trump administration is warning schools against using application essays, geography and other “unlawful proxies” for race to achieve diverse student bodies
- Dept. of Ed Clarifies What Race-Based Data Must Be Reported
- NYTimes: Columbia and Brown to Disclose Admissions and Race Data in Trump Deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/nyregion/columbia-brown-admissions-trump.html
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Live Updates: President Orders Closer Scrutiny of College Admissions Data
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/07/us/trump-news https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/us/politics/trump-schools-race-data.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/traditional-age/2025/08/07/trump-orders-colleges-supply-data-race-admissions https://www.chronicle.com/article/trump-begins-hunt-for-bogeyman-in-admissions-data
Accreditation
- Watch out for middle states
- Community College Accreditor Adopts ROI Metric
- Western Accreditor Launches New ROI Tool
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/06/western-accreditor-launches-new-roi-tool
- He Helped Lead a Disgraced College Accreditor. Under Trump, He Might Have Another Shot.
- Trump wields his ‘secret weapon’: College accreditation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/12/trump-college-accreditation-political-influence/
- Despite Reservations, Florida Approves New Accreditor
Harvard
- At Harvard, Trump administration cuts hit young scientists hard
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/24/harvard-grad-students-research-cuts/
- NYTimes: Harvard Is Making Changes Trump Officials Want, Even Without a Deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/us/harvard-changes-academic-freedom-trump-deal.html
- Will the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Research Grants Sink Harvard’s Lawsuit Against Trump?
- NYTimes: Trump Wants Universities to Show Him the Money, or No Deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/trump-universities-financial-penalties.html
- Exclusive: Harvard patents targeted by Trump administration | Reuters
- Trump is not happy with the judge hearing Harvard’s lawsuits : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5495486/trump-harvard-judge-lawsuits
- NYTimes: Harvard and White House Move Toward Potential Landmark Settlement
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/trump-harvard-settlement-negotiations.html
- Under Pressure From Trump, the Accreditor Overseeing Harvard Proposes Nixing DEI Standards
- Democrats Plan to Probe Harvard if It Complies With Trump
- Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a 500 Million Deal With Trump | News | The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/3/garber-500-million-trump/
- NYTimes: Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/harvard-trump-brown.html
- NYTimes: Harvard’s Powerful Leader Faces Intense Scrutiny in Trump Fight
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/harvard-penny-pritzker.html
- The quiet academic leading Harvard’s fight against Trump
- Trump puts pressure on Harvard and others to pay up, after Columbia deal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/25/harvard-columbia-university-trump-deal/ https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-columbia-trump-white-house-fines-payment-deal-settlement-d61aa9c6
- NYTimes: Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to 500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/politics/trump-harvard-payment.html
- NYTimes: Harvard Will Share Employee Forms With Federal Government
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/us/politics/harvard-employee-forms-trump-administration.html
- HHS Accuses Harvard of Thwarting Investigations
- Under Pressure From Trump, the Accreditor Overseeing Harvard Proposes Nixing DEI Standards
- Trump vs. Harvard: A timeline of how the fight escalated
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2025/timeline-trump-harvard/
- NYTimes: Trump Administration and Harvard Face Crucial Court Test
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/trump-administration-harvard-hearing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/trump-administration-harvard-hearing.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/07/22/judge-appears-skeptical-harvard-funding-cuts https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-a-key-court-showdown-with-harvard-trump-administration-encounters-a-skeptical-judge https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/21/trump-harvard-hearing/ https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-court-lawsuit-analysis-6022851b
- “Harvard Creates New Public Service Program as Trump Administration Slashes Federal Jobs.”.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/harvard-american-service-fellowship-trump.html
- NYTimes: As Harvard and Trump Head to Court, the Government Piles on the Pressure
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/us/harvard-trump-head-to-trial.html
- NYTimes: How Harvard’s Ties to China Helped Make It a White House Target
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/harvard-china-white-house-funding.html
- Harvard’s Fight Is a Defense of Democracy and Civic Virtue
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/harvards-fight-is-a-defense-of-democracy-and-civic-virtue/
- Trump administration ups pressure on Harvard with threat to accreditation
https://www.ft.com/content/a60c469b-6c0c-49af-9c9d-6908f4ab6561 https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-accreditation-subpoena-trump-00d68304 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/politics/trump-harvard-data-accreditation.html
- The idea has circulated at the university for several years but gained steam after pro-Palestinian protests began disrupting campus in late 2023
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-conservative-scholarship-center-trump-attacks-a187242a
- What a Harvard Deal Would Mean for Higher Ed
https://www-chronicle-com.csi.ezproxy.cuny.edu/article/what-a-harvard-deal-would-mean-for-higher-ed
- NYTimes: Trump Administration “Finds” Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/trump-harvard-civil-rights-law.html
- The Trump administration found Harvard violated the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students, putting the university’s federal funding further at risk
- What a Harvard Deal Would Mean for Higher Ed
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-a-harvard-deal-would-mean-for-higher-ed
- Harvard is the wealthiest U.S. university. Can it survive a Trump standoff?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/01/harvard-trump-federal-funding/
- Harvard would face a budget shortfall of about a billion dollars a year if President Trump follows through on all of his plans and threats spanning research funding, tax policy and student enrollment
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-funding-budget-cuts-1dc5bf2f
- NYTimes: Harvard and Trump Restart Talks to Potentially End Bitter Dispute
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/us/politics/harvard-federal-funding-trump.html
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Live Updates: Federal Judge Blocks Efforts to Keep International Students Out of Harvard
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/20/us/trump-news
- NYTimes: What to Know About Harvard’s Legal Battles With Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/article/harvard-trump-legal-battles.html
- Judge Grants Harvard Injunction in International Student Case
- NYTimes: ‘Are We Past Peak Harvard?’: 3 Writers Mull Higher Education’s Woes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/opinion/trump-higher-education-harvard.html
- NYTimes: Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/22/upshot/harvard-funding-cuts.html
- Harvard flouted the rules. Now, it’s getting a hard lesson. (Kristi Noem can write…)
- NYTimes: Judge Blocks Trump Proclamation Barring Harvard’s International Students
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/us/harvard-trump-international-students.html
- NYTimes: Behind Closed Doors, Harvard Officials Debate a Risky Truce With Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/harvard-debate-settlement-trump.html
- With stakes high, White House pushes negotiations with Harvard
- Harvard scientist accused of smuggling frog embryos faces new charges
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/26/harvard-researcher-frog-embryos-ice/
- NYTimes: Harvard Will Ask a Judge to Block Trump From Barring International Students
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/harvard-international-students-lawsuit-injunction.html
- Judge Waits to Rule on Trump’s Effort to Bar Harvard Foreign Students
- Federal judge blocks Trump’s latest effort to ban Harvard’s international students - POLITICO
- NYTimes: Harvard Taught This British Student About Democracy. Now Trump May Force Him Out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/trump-harvard-international-student-ban.html
- In recent weeks, long-simmering Republican anger over Harvard’s links to China has increasingly gained traction
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/harvards-china-ties-become-new-front-in-battle-with-trump-6eb24947
- In Public, Harvard Is Fighting Trump. Quietly, It’s Dismantling a Program the White House Doesn’t Like.
- NYTimes: Rubio Is Pressing to Open Sanctions Investigation Into Harvard
- NYTimes: What Happens if ‘Harvard Is Not Harvard’?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/harvard-funding-trump-administration.html
- White House convenes meeting to brainstorm new Harvard measures - POLITICO
- NYTimes: A Stephen Miller Staffer and Tough Talk: Inside Trump’s Latest Attack on Harvard
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/politics/harvard-law-review-investigation-trump.html
- NYTimes: Harvard Argues Cutting Off Its Government Funding Is Wasteful
- ENHANCING NATIONAL SECURITY BY ADDRESSING RISKS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
- NYTimes: Trump Pushes to Restrict Harvard’s International Students From Entering U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-student-visas.html
- Trump proclamation seeks to restrict international students from Harvard
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/04/harvard-visa-ban-trump-international-students/
- President Trump suspended Harvard from participating in the student-visa program, effectively prohibiting foreign nationals from attending the nation’s most prominent university
- MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.285083/gov.uscourts.mad.285083.56.0.pdf
- ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25964963-harvardtrotwo060525/
- NYTimes: Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Curtailing Foreign Students at Harvard
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/harvard-response-trump-international-students.html
- NYTimes: Trump Seeks Extensive Student Data in Pressure Campaign to Control Harvard
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/trump-harvard-international-student-records.html
- NYTimes: Why Harvard Has No Way Out
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html
- Harvard Digs In for Battle, but Trump’s Blows Are Landing
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-lawsuits-fight-d5f8ec8a
- The government seems bent on destroying Harvard for the offense of fighting back. And for what purpose?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-harvard-dhs-foreign-students-kristi-noem-b8ac80ed
- President Trump on Monday said he was considering taking billions in grant money away from Harvard University and redistributing it to trade schools across the U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-threatens-to-redistribute-3-billion-in-harvard-grants-to-trade-schools-a4ebc64c https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/us/harvard-trump-trade-schools.html https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-hes-considering-taking-3-billion-grants-harvard-giving-it-trade-2025-05-26/
- NYTimes: Trump Intends to Cancel All Federal Funds Directed at Harvard
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/harvard-trump-federal-funds.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/27/harvard-contracts-trump-federal-funding/
- Trump’s revenge spree on Harvard echoes well beyond education | Jan-Werner Müller | The Guardian
- NYTimes: Trump’s Attacks Have Helped Heal a Deeply Divided Harvard
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/trump-attacks-unify-divided-harvard.html
- Does the President Want to Fix Harvard or Destroy It? by @jasonrileywsj
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/does-the-president-want-to-fix-harvard-or-destroy-it-0bf083d1
- NYTimes: Harvard and Trump Lawyers to Face Off in Court in Foreign Student Case
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/harvard-trump-lawyers-hearing-foreign-students.html
- NYTimes: Harvard Says Many of Its Foreign Students Are Seeking to Transfer
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/harvard-international-students-transfers.html
- NYTimes: Live Updates: Judge Will Block Trump From Barring Foreign Students at Harvard, For Now
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/29/us/harvard-trump
- NYTimes: Trump’s Push to Defund Harvard Prompts Clash Over Veteran Suicide Research
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/trump-harvard-veterans-research.html
- Feds yank funds from Harvard breast cancer, fertility, antibiotics research | WBUR News
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/05/16/harvard-medical-research-trump-2-7-billion-cuts
- NYTimes: Education Secretary Wants Talks With Harvard to Resume, Without Giving Ground
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/linda-mcmahon-harvard-trump.html
- Trump administration pulls 60 M in Harvard grants in third round of cuts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/20/harvard-hhs-us-grants-antisemitism/
- NYTimes: All the Actions the Trump Administration Has Taken Against Harvard
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/harvard-university-trump.html
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html https://www.chronicle.com/article/trump-administration-revokes-harvards-ability-to-enroll-international-students
- Harvard’s International Students Are People — Not Pawns
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/23/harvard-international-students-trump/
- Harvard sues Trump administration to protect international students
- NYTimes: Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar International Students at Harvard
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/harvard-sues-trump-international-students-garber.html
- NYTimes: Harvard Derangement Syndrome
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opinion/harvard-university-trump-administration.html
- Is Trump Trying to Destroy Harvard? - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-harvard-dhs-foreign-students-kristi-noem-b8ac80ed
Columbia
- NYTimes: Columbia Got Most of Its Research Funding Back. The Damage Goes Deeper.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/nyregion/columbia-trump-federal-money-returned.html
- Where Is Columbia’s 200 -Million Settlement Going, Exactly?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/where-is-columbias-200-million-settlement-going-exactly
- Community College Research Collateral Damage in Columbia Fight
- Research Funding Starts to Flow Back to Columbia, Brown
- Columbia agreed to a monitor, stoking fears about independence
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/26/columbia-university-settlement-monitor/
- NYTimes: Columbia Agrees to 200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/nyregion/columbia-trump-funding-deal.html https://apnews.com/article/columbia-trump-deal-00eef5dca9f003e593d2cb151f5cce17 https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/23/trump-columbia-university-agreement-federal-funding/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2025/07/23/columbia-settles-trump-administration https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2025/07/23/columbia-settles-trump-administration https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/23/columbia-university-reaches-a-settlement-with-trump-administration-00473322 https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-extraordinary-deal-with-trump-columbia-u-agrees-to-pay-200-million-to-restore-funds
- Columbia Expels, Suspends Student Protesters
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/07/22/columbia-expels-suspends-student-protesters https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/07/22/columbia-expels-suspends-student-protesters https://apnews.com/article/campus-protests-columbia-discipline-trump-administration-f009b90113fe0ba7847c54ffc9197bd1
- The University That Chose Surrender: Columbia’s capitulation proves higher ed can’t save itself.
https://www-chronicle-com.csi.ezproxy.cuny.edu/article/the-university-that-chose-surrender https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/trump-columbia-deal-professor.html
- Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster | AAUP
https://www.aaup.org/news/columbia-university-settlement-unprecedented-disaster
- Columbia Deal a ‘Threat’ to Higher Ed, Experts Warn
- What Columbia’s Settlement Stipulates
- ‘The Best Day Higher Ed Has Had in a Year’ – Larry Summers
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-best-day-higher-ed-has-had-in-a-year
- Columbia Struck a Deal to Save Research Funding. How Do Its Researchers Feel About That?
- Tucked Into Columbia’s Deal With Trump: A Restriction on International Enrollments
- What Columbia Just Threw Away
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-columbia-just-threw-away
- NYTimes: Columbia Walked a Tightrope on Its Way to a 200 Million Settlement With Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/nyregion/how-columbia-reached-a-deal.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/nyregion/columbia-trump-deal-reaction.html
- White House touts deal with Columbia as critics decry ‘chilling’ precedent
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/24/columbia-white-house-deal-implications-impacts/
- The deal that the Trump administration struck with Columbia on Wednesday is a blueprint for negotiations with other universities, a White House official said
- NYTimes: Columbia and Trump Near a Deal, With School Possibly Paying Millions
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/nyregion/columbia-university-trump-deal-antisemitism.html https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-columbia-civil-rights-settlement-86f64531 https://freebeacon.com/campus/columbia-nears-deal-with-trump-administration-university-will-pay-discrimination-victims-reveal-more-admissions-and-hiring-data-but-will-dodge-harsher-measures-like-governance-shakeup/
- NYTimes: Columbia Expands Efforts to Fight Antisemitism as Trump Deal Seems Near
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/nyregion/columbia-plan-to-fight-antisemitism.html
- Anti-Semitism Gets the DEI Treatment - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/columbia-anti-semitism-trump/683586/
- Middle States Gives Columbia a Warning
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/07/02/columbia-u-gets-warning-accreditor
- NYTimes: Columbia Cyberattack Appears Politically Motivated, University Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/nyregion/columbia-university-hacker.html
- Columbia University plans to steal a page from the conservative playbook
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/02/states-climate-law-model-legislation/
- The acting president of Columbia University apologized Wednesday for messages in which she appeared to diminish concerns about antisemitism on campus and criticize a Jewish member of the school’s board of trustees
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-president-claire-shipman-apology-3cd70dc5
- NYTimes: Negotiation or Capitulation? How Columbia Got Off Trump’s Hot Seat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/nyregion/columbia-middle-east-studies-trump.html
- Federal Judge Dismisses AAUP Lawsuit Challenging Columbia Grant Freezes
- Trump Escalates Attack on Columbia University by Threatening Its Accreditation - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/nyregion/columbia-trump-accreditation-civil-rights.html
- No, Trump Is Not Pulling Columbia’s Accreditation. Here’s What You Need to Know.
- NYTimes: To Bolster Columbia Inquiry, Prosecutor Likened Hamas Graffiti to Cross Burning
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/columbia-protester-hamas-cross.html
- NYTimes: What to Know About Trump Officials’ Latest Move Against Columbia
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/nyregion/columbia-trump-jewish-students.html
- NYTimes: Harvard Fight Illustrates Trump’s Worldview: If He Attacks, It’s Your Fault
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/harvard-university-trump-administration.html
- A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Columbia University demonstrator Mahmoud Khalil were likely unconstitutional
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-unconstitutional-judge-194a0d4a
- Trump administration says Columbia violated Jewish students’ civil rights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/23/columbia-university-trump-administration/
Brown
- NYTimes: Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/climate/brown-university-offshore-wind-marzulla.html
- Brown University Makes a Deal With the White House to Restore Funding - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/brown-university-makes-a-deal-with-the-white-house-to-restore-funding.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/07/30/brown-strikes-deal-trump-administration https://www.chronicle.com/article/brown-u-s-deal-with-trump-restores-research-funding-without-paying-a-government-fine https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/brown-trump-deal-university-funding.html https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/brown-trump-deal-federal-funds-research-50-million-25b1e8bd
George Mason
- Ed Dept. Says George Mason Violated Civil Rights Law
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/22/ed-dept-says-george-mason-violated-civil-rights-law https://www.chronicle.com/article/education-dept-finds-faculty-diversity-efforts-at-george-mason-u-were-discriminatory
- George Mason Must Not Comply With the Government’s Demands (opinion)
- GMU President Rejects OCR Findings
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/25/gmu-president-refuses-apologize-rejects-ocr-findings https://www.chronicle.com/article/gmu-president-refuses-to-apologize-for-diversity-efforts-calls-ed-dept-claims-absurd https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/25/george-mason-president-refuses-apology-dei/
- Virginia Democrats reject more of Youngkin’s picks for college boards
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/28/schools-youngkin-virginia-george-mason/
- Fresh Air: The Shifting Landscape Of Higher Education
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/24/1256157824/higher-education-george-mason
- On the Media:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm
- George Mason U. Faculty Rally Around Their Besieged President. They May Be His Only Support.
- Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
- DOJ to review staff texts, emails after faculty praise of GMU president
https://www.washingtonpost.com/educat
- Three takeaways from what DOJ told UVA
- Judge Removes Youngkin’s University Board Picks
- Gregory Washington’s Gamble – -The president of George Mason — and faculty leaders — may be punished for defending university policies.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/gregory-washingtons-gamble
- NYTimes: George Mason President Holds Job After Attacks on His Diversity Views
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/us/george-masons-president-gregory-washington-republicans-diversity.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/01/george-mason-president-raise-dei-resolution/ https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-a-plot-twist-george-masons-politically-embattled-president-gets-a-raise
- Why attack colleges? To open students’ minds or blow up institutions?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/16/trump-dei-george-mason-university/
- George Mason President Defends Univ. Against Trump
- Trump administration expands scrutiny of George Mason University
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/17/george-mason-doj-investigation/
- Trump administration increases scrutiny of another Virginia university
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/10/george-mason-university-dei-probe-trump-administration/ https://www.propublica.org/article/george-mason-university-antisemitism-investigation-trump https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/07/11/george-mason-faces-2-title-vi-investigations https://www.chronicle.com/article/an-inside-job
Others
- Howard President Steps Down, Former President Appointed Interim
- NYTimes: University of California Settles With Jewish Students Over U.C.L.A. Protests
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/us/ucla-jewish-students-settlement.html
- Justice Dept. says it is investigating Univ. of California hiring practices
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/06/26/university-california-trump-dei-investigation-hiring-justice/ https://www.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/page-assets/about/chancellor/strategic-roadmap/CUNY Markdown.Italic(Any[“Lifting”]) New_York.pdf
- The Trump administration froze Northwestern’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/northwestern-funding-freeze-trump-85d49da2
- Facing Research Cuts, Officials at U. of Iowa Spoke of a ‘Limited Ability to Publicly Fight This’
- Trump Administration Proposes Cutting Tribal College Funds by Nearly 90% — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-universities-trump-cuts-funding
- Inside UNC’s Effort to Launch a New Accreditor
- Universities quietly negotiating with White House aide to try to avoid Harvard’s fate, source says | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/politics/universities-negotiate-trump-administration-harvard
- NYTimes: Universities See Trump’s Harvard Move as a Threat to Them, Too
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/harvard-trump-international-students-impact.html
- Trump’s war on America’s Ivy League universities didn’t start with the 2023 anti-Israel protests. It was set off in 2019 by a sucker punch that left a man with a black eye.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-college-university-federal-funding-fight-91c2a274
University of Chicago
- UChicago Lost Money on Crypto, Then Froze Research When Federal Funding Was Cut
- More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Will Pause Admissions
UCLA
- Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay 1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/trump-ucla-research-funding-deal.html https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/ucla-trump-administration-settlement https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-08/trump-seeking-1-billion-fine-from-ucla-over-antisemitism-allegations
- UCLA should not bend ‘on their knees’ to Trump in grant talks, Newsom says - Los Angeles Times
- ‘Extortion’: Newsom Threatens to Sue After Trump Fines UCLA 1 Billion | KQED
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Violated Order on U.C.L.A. Grant Terminations, Judge Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/ucla-grant-nsf-science-trump.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/08/14/federal-judge-orders-nsf-reinstate-suspended-ucla-grants
- With Grant Cuts, Trump Pressures UCLA to Make Deal
- 23 Cents Per American: The Price of Destroying Mathematical Research
- He’s the ‘Mozart’ of Math and Trump Killed His Funding
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/terence-tao-ucla-mathematician-mozart-of-math-trump-funding-nsf
- The University of California system agrees to negotiate with Trump after more than 500 million in federal research funds are frozen
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/ucla-trump-university-california-negotiations-public-7ef576d9 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/08/07/uc-will-dialogue-feds-over-civil-rights
UVA
- NYTimes: University of Virginia Appoints Interim President After Ouster
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/university-virginia-appoints-interim-president.html
- Tim Kaine speaks to students:
- Letter from 12 Deans to Board of Visitors goes unanswered for two weeks (the article includes a link to the letter sent)
- UVA Faculty Senate adopts no confidence vote in Board of Visitors
- https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/07/a-statement-by-40-jewish-faculty-and-staff-on-antisemitism-and-dei-at-uva
- As U-Va. president leaves, faculty say board failed to protect university
- The Trump staffers who set out to reshape their alma maters
- Teaching literature is an exercise in freedom. Now ideological demands from the right are putting it in danger, writes University of VIrginia English professor Mark Edmundson.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/paradise-lost-at-the-university-of-virginia-9e59195a
- UVirginia President resigns under pressure from Trump DOJ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/university-of-virginia-president-resigns-trump-justice-department.html https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/uva-president-resigns-james-ryan-dei-trump-d02a60fe
- The Unexpected Trump Target
https://www-chronicle-com.csi.ezproxy.cuny.edu/article/the-unexpected-trump-target
- Letters from DOJ reveal threats to U.Va. over admissions policies, Ryan’s leadership - The Cavalier Daily - University of Virginia’s Student Newspaper
Indiana
- Trump wants more apprenticeships. Indiana is going all in.
- Hundreds of IU degree programs at risk of disappearing – WFIU/WTIU News
https://wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/hundreds-of-iu-degree-programs-at-risk-of-disappearing/
- At Indiana U., Professors Spar With Administrators Over Nighttime Protests
This is saw on bluesky this week
Indiana U. Requires Buyout Takers to Pledge No Disparagement — a Move More Often Seen in Corporations
- Indiana U: Most Complaints Under Law Were “Form of Protest”
- NYTimes: Republicans Trying to Control Indiana University Meet Little Resistance
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/republicans-indiana-public-universities.html
UPenn
- UPenn Agrees to Ban Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports, Correct Records | National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/upenn-agrees-to-ban-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports-correct-records/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/07/01/penn-agrees-trumps-demands-will-strip-trans-athletes https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/penn-title-ix-transgender-swimmer-trump.html
Alliances
- Harvard, Duke, Stanford and other wealthy universities are hoping to avoid a huge potential tax hike by pitching an alternative plan to Congress: a pledge to spend more of their own money
Blowback
- NYTimes: Purging ‘Equity’ Programs, G.O.P. Defunded Its Own Roads
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/republicans-transportation-grants.html
- NYTimes: How College Financial Troubles Could Reshape the Student Experience
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/college-financial-troubles-student-experience.html
- A ‘Great Defection’ threatens to empty universities and colleges of top teaching talent
- NYTimes: As Trump Pushes International Students Away, Asian Schools Scoop Them Up
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/us-international-students-trump.html
- U.S. scientists are seeing their research upended
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/14/scientists-cuts-grants-trump-research/
- NYTimes: Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/magazine/trump-community-college-anti-dei.html
- International Student Enrollment Could Drop 15% by Fall
- Stanford Plans to Cut 363 Jobs
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/05/stanford-plans-cut-363-jobs
- How Trump Forced Cuts at Wealthy Universities
- U of Utah Plans to Ax 81 Offerings, Citing New State Law
- NYTimes: Saving for College Once Felt Essential. Some Parents Are Rethinking Their Plans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/business/529-parents-saving-college.html
- Nearly 600 Duke Employees Take Buyouts
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/07/28/nearly-600-duke-employees-take-buyouts
- Staffing Shortages at ED Hurt College Operations
- Congress Cut a Federal Nutrition Program, Jeopardizing Campus Jobs and Community Services
- China “Will Blow Us Away” if Trump Destroys U.S. Universities
- They Want to Leave the U.S. Is a Master’s Their Ticket Out?
- What Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Bill Means for NYC | THE CITY — NYC News
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/07/trump-budget-medicaid-food-stamps-local-impact/
- NYTimes: Why 1.5 Million New Yorkers Could Lose Health Insurance Under Trump Bill
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/nyregion/trump-domestic-policy-bill-new-york-health-care.html
- Europe is wooing American researchers with funding as the Trump administration cancels grants
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europe-is-recruiting-academics-disenchanted-with-america-c4bae422
- Moody’s Warns of Credit Risk for Colleges Reliant on International Enrollment
- Nobelist: U.S. Scientists Took Support ‘For Granted’ Before Trump Cuts
- Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/national-science-foundation-trump-cuts
- NIH cuts: Red states losing out as canceled grants are reinstated:
- How Budget Cuts and a Loss of Trust Threaten Higher Ed’s Workforce
- FIU Donor Pulls Funds Over President’s Politics
- Business Leaders Call Trump Attacks on Universities a Competitive Threat
- NYTimes: Tuition Increases and Layoffs Are Coming to a Broad Set of Universities
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/us/tuition-hikes-layoffs-universities.html https://www.chronicle.com/article/u-of-minnesota-tries-to-soften-the-blow-of-tuition-hikes-budget-cuts-with-faculty-benefits
- American students in China face a barrage of questions about Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/08/american-students-in-china/
- U.S. Curb on Chinese Students a Boon for Asian Universities
- NYTimes: Red-State Universities Will Get Hit by Trump’s Cuts, Too
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/opinion/trump-harvard-scientific-research.html
- Trump’s Attacks Threaten Much More Than Harvard - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-harvard-higher-education-law/682985/
- NYTimes: World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/world/asia/us-science-cuts.html
- NYTimes: Denying Visas to Chinese Students Could Backfire on America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/business/china-student-visas-trump.html
- NYTimes: The U.S. Lit a Beacon for Science. Under Trump, Scientists Fear It’s Dimming
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/trump-federal-spending-grants-scientists-leaving.html
- Exclusive | CUNY Labor School chairman resigns day after coming under fire for spreading ‘antisemitic conspiracy theories’
- DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite
- NYTimes: Candidate Criticized Over Diversity Blocked From Becoming U. of Florida President
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/santa-ono-university-of-florida-president.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/santa-ono-university-of-florida.html https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-ruination-of-santa-ono
- America’s college crisis - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/06/college-wage-premium-jobs-grads/683036/
- Millions of Americans hit with bad credit after missed student loan payments
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/25/credit-score-student-loan-elinquency-debt/
- House Republicans’ plan to hike taxes on university endowments could drive the biggest shift to endowments’ investment strategies in a generation
- At universities from the Ivy League to state schools, a financial reckoning has started as President Trump’s funding cuts hit home
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/university-spending-cuts-layoffs-pay-budget-trump-9f261d14
- NYTimes: Republican Plan to Tax Elite Colleges Could Hit in Unexpected Places
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/universities-endowment-tax-republicans.html
- Chinese College Gives Harvard International Students ‘Unconditional Offers’ - Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/harvard-hkust-china-college-international-students-offer-2076257
- NYTimes: The World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/economy/trump-research-brain-drain.html
- NYTimes: We Study Fascism. And We’re Leaving the U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/yale-canada-fascism.html
- NYTimes: For Some International Students, U.S. Dreams Dim Under Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/world/europe/us-international-students-college-trump.html
- The Scary Implications of U.S. Government Attacks on Medical Journals | Scientific American
- How a Decades-Old Diversity Program Became Collateral Damage in Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade
- NYTimes: White House Tech Bros Are Killing What Made Them (and America) Wealthy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/venture-capital-musk-investments.html
- NYTimes: Trump Is Laying a Potentially Deadly Trap for the U.S. Auto Industry
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-car-industry-tariffs.html
- European Governments Back Universities’ U.S. Recruitment Drive
- NYTimes: Losing International Students Could Devastate Many Colleges
- Trump’s Funding Freezes Halt Medical Research, Deaf Education Training
- How Europe is quietly stealing America’s scientists
- NYTimes: America’s Brightest Minds Will Walk Away
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opinion/young-american-scientists.html
- NYTimes: Trump Is Selling Jews a Dangerous Lie
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-jewish-antisemitism-wesleyan.html
- Columbia University’s President Resigns - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/columbia-universitys-president-resigns.html
- NYTimes: Columbia Campus Occupation Could Have Ended Without Police, Report Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/nyregion/columbia-protests-police.html
- NYTimes: As Trump’s Policies Worry Scientists, France and Others Put Out a Welcome Mat
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/europe-trump-science-research.html
- Fallout from Columbia capitulation fuels fears about academic freedom
- Trump-Inflicted Funding Cuts Could Lead to Overworked Faculty and Staff, Larger Class Sizes
- Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/25/dont-visit-the-us-it-just-isnt-worth-the-risks-right-now https://www.propublica.org/article/regional-public-universities-trump-funding-dei
Tracking projects
- SCIMaP – map of impact of NIH cuts
- Tracking Key Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration
- Tracking Trump’s Higher-Ed Agenda
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda
- DefendResearch
AI misdeeds
- Fewer Young People See Math Skills as Very Important in Work
- There is one way for colleges to defeat AI cheating—and it’s every student’s worst nightmare. Blue books are back.
https://www.wsj.com/business/chatgpt-ai-cheating-college-blue-books-5e3014a6
- Online Learning: Past the Tipping Point
- AI is listening to your meetings. Be careful what you say.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-notetaker-meeting-transcripts-be9bc4cc
- The LOADing Act
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S7543/amendment/A
- Guidelines for the Use of AI in AGB (Association of Governing Boards) Work
https://agb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guidelines-for-the-Use-of-AI-in-AGB-Work-June-2024.pdf
- Faculty Latest Targets of Big Tech’s AI-ification of Higher Ed
- NIH to Limit AI Use, Cap P.I. Grant Applications at 6 per Year
- What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-end-of-the-english-paper
- NYTimes: I’m Watching the Sacrifice of College’s Soul
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/college-soul-ai-education.html
- Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/
- NYTimes: A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/technology/ai-elections-democracy.html
- NYTimes: How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/business/computer-science-education-ai.html
- The Handwriting Revolution
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872v1
- What Will Be Left of Higher Ed in Four Years?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-will-be-left-of-higher-ed-in-four-years
- Inside the AI Tool Used by DOGE to Review Veterans Affairs Contracts — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ai-tool-doge-veterans-affairs-contracts-sahil-lavingia
- NYTimes: Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/chatgpt-openai-colleges.html
- Chinese AI firms block features amid high-stakes university entrance exams
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/10/china-exam-gaokao-ai-cheating-test/
Heads up
- 4 dead as Legionnaires’ disease continues to spread in NYC
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5454048-deadly-legionnaires-disease-spreading-nyc/amp/
- Test results
Academic freedom
- ‘Higher Ed Alone Cannot Save Democracy’ – interview with AAUP leader
- Academic Freedom under attack:
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/08/12/shocking-cancellation-special-journal-issue-opinion https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/22/harvard-educational-review-palestine-issue-cancelled
- Kentucky Professor Calling for Global War to End Israel Removed From Teaching
- NYTimes: Judge Bars Trump Administration From Punishing 2 Law Professors for I.C.C. Work
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/politics/trump-icc-lawyers.html
- NYTimes: Army Secretary Orders West Point to Pull Appointment of Former Biden Official
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/politics/army-secretary-west-point-trump-loomer.html
- A different take on academic freedom.
- Academic Freedom Was Already Limited at U.S. Service Academies. Then Came Trump.
- ‘A Banner Year for Censorship’: More States Are Restricting Classroom Discussions on Race and Gender
- Tulane Environmentalist Resigns Amid Research ‘Gag Order’
- Red states tell colleges: Race and gender classes are out, civics in
- House Democrats Air Grievances With McMahon
- NYTimes: A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/magazine/academic-freedom-politics.html
- Texas House OKs more state oversight of public universities | The Texas Tribune
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/24/texas-governing-boards-regents-senate-bill-37/
- In Defense of Academic Freedom - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/05/in-defense-of-academic-freedom/682914/
- A Tumultuous Spring Semester Finally Comes to a Close | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/a-tumultuous-spring-semester-finally-comes-to-a-close
- Utah Lawmakers Flex Their Power Over Public Universities
- We Don’t Need More Administrators Inspecting Our Ideas
https://www.chronicle.com/article/we-dont-need-more-administrators-inspecting-our-ideas
- RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/rfk-jr-ban-journals-lancet-jama/
- NYTimes: The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/project-esther-heritage-foundation-palestine.html
- The Visionary of Trump 2.0 - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/russell-vought-trump-doge/682821/ https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-quietly-kills-rule-to-shield-americans-from-data-brokers/
- Trump’s Attacks on International Students Are the Start of a Wider War | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/195142/trump-war-international-students-university https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/
- Skilled immigration on the chopping block? Effects of eliminating “Optional Practical Training” in the US | PIIE
- We Don’t Need More Administrators Inspecting Our Ideas
- Scientists Hail This Medical Breakthrough. A Political Storm Could Cripple It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/mrna-vaccines-backlash-covid.html
- Opinion | A.G. Sulzberger: A Free People Need a Free Press - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/ag-sulzberger-free-press.html
- Texas lawmakers moving to greatly increase control of state universities
- New State Laws Target DEI, Struggling Academic Programs, and Tenure
https://www.chronicle.com/article/new-state-laws-target-dei-struggling-academic-programs-and-tenure
- NEJM Gets Letter From DOJ | MedPage Today
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/115256
- DeSantis Calls Off Search for University of Florida Dean
- The Dark Ages Are Back - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/04/trump-academic-freedom/682648/
- Trump’s War on Academic Institutions Is Even Worse Than You Think’ – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/04/30/trump-freedom-of-speech-universities/
- Trump’s DOJ Claims Academic Journals Hold “Partisan” Stance in Scientific Debates – Mother Jones
Anti-woke/anti-DEI is simply racism
- Judge Keeps Alabama’s Anti-DEI Law in Place for Now
- ecretly Recorded by Anti-DEI Group, ‘No Longer Employed’
- Where Anti-DEI Legislation Has Been Proposed
- NYTimes: Trump Withholds Nearly 7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/trump-education-funds.html
- A Decades-Old Government Program That Supports Hispanic Students Is Under Fresh Scrutiny
- What Is Replacing DEI? Racism.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-is-replacing-dei-racism
- Trump addresses a West Point upended by his changes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/24/trump-west-point-graduation-dei-military/
- NYTimes: For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-race-civil-right-white-men.html
- How Harmeet Dhillon is engineering a U-turn in the Justice Department’s civil-rights division
- Uncle Sam’s new message to young Black Americans: I don’t want you
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/27/trump-military-hostile-black-americans/
- The Era of DEI for Conservatives Has Begun
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/conservative-professors-dei-initiatives/682944/
Federal Agencies
DOE/OCR
- Under Trump, the Education Dept. has flipped its civil rights mission
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/18/trump-education-department-civil-rights/
- NYTimes: Trump Amps Up an Obama Strategy to Crack Down on Colleges
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/trump-universities-title-ix-vi-obama.html
- Court Filing Sheds Light on Civil Rights Complaints Under Trump
- Colleges Can’t Trust the Federal Government. What Now?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-cant-trust-the-federal-government-what-now
OMB
- Withheld Adult Education Funds Worry Community Colleges
State actions
- Tennessee Lawsuit Puts HSIs’ Fate on the Line
- Funding for Hispanic-Serving Institutions Is Discriminatory and Unconstitutional, Lawsuit Argues
- New state laws target job protections for college professors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/06/18/tenure-college-faculty-republican-challenges/ https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/
- Citing Ohio’s SB 1, College Refuses to Sign Union Contract
Letters
- University of California: Stand Up For Our Values [UCLA Faculty Association]
- Tell the Supreme Court: No Stay. Hands off NIH
https://scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/tell-the-supreme-court-no-stay-hands
- AAUP Letter Supports CUNY Law Professor Ramzi Kassem
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-letter-supports-cuny-law-professor-ramzi-kassem https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/2025-07/Letter-AAUP-CUNY-July-2025.pdf
NYS AAUP sends letter to BC President
NYTimes: Hundreds of NASA Employees, Past and Present, Sign Letter of Formal Dissent
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/science/nasa-formal-dissent-letter-trump.html https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/06e6b87deb245d66/67ef9b90-full.pdf
- July 4th letter from SUNY
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- Four Brooklyn College adjuncts not reappointed
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m66vrS2Hoen6u6cqnjNtwUHZwqnBVAs7/view. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19MhSXhvLvfJWYCjabU2mb8EBdIW4wpYZf96l-Z-HJKM/viewform
- Letter to the Chancellor on MADCs by several CUNY faculty
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jd0KZzC-0Kl7koep3n0nWPyiOSsvQ66mlcpvyX48Bxc/edit
- Stand up for Science
https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration
- Open letter in support of Science
https://www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-in-support-of-science
- Call to Defend Federal Research Funding for CUNY and SUNY
- Fearing Trump, academics worldwide issue anti-fascist manifesto
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/13/anti-fascist-manifesto-intellectuals-trump/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/nobel-laureates-fascism https://stopreturnfascism.org/
- AAUP - Tell Your Senators: Protect Higher Ed & Student Aid
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-senators-protect-higher-ed-student-aid
- The Bethesda Declaration: A Call for NIH and HHS Leadership to Deliver on Promises of Academic Freedom and Scientific Excellence
https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration
- Sign the Open Letter to Urge USC to Respect our Voice, Respect Our Vote
https://unitedfaculty-uaw.org/sign-the-open-letter-usc-respect-our-voice-respect-our-vote/
- Twenty-one Skytte Prize winners speak out | Skytteprize
https://www.skytteprize.com/news/twenty-one-winners-speak-out
- From Lehman College
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TBPqh7pH3javF_m7s4T2sf6JU-YI0nP0/edit
- PSC Immigration Support Petition (Open letter)
https://psc-cuny.org/issues/immigrant-solidarity-working-group/tell-cuny-no-ice-dhs-on-campus/
- We Must Leverage the Strength of Our Institutions and Stand Together (open letter)
https://sites.google.com/view/we-must-leverage-the-strength/home
- We Must Leverage the Strength of Our Institutions and Stand Together
https://sites.google.com/view/we-must-leverage-the-strength/home https://academeblog.org/2025/04/01/faculty-letter-calls-for-interuniversity-defense-of-higher-education/
- National Academies letter on Science
Harvard faculty letter
Constitutional law scholars letter on Columbia
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/20/a-statement-from-constitutional-law-scholars-on-columbia/
- UCLA Law Faculty letter
https://sites.google.com/view/letter-ucla-law-students
- “Not in our name” open letter
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George Washington
- DOJ Claims George Washington U Violated Federal Civil Rights Law
Others
- UChicago Reducing, Freezing Ph.D. Admissions for Multiple Humanities Programs
Testimony on the hill
- CUNY chancellor discusses recent testimony on antisemitism
- The Review: Georgetown president says ‘we police’ the faculty. What?
https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/the-review/2025-07-28
- NYT’s podcast The Daily speaks to how all these so-called antisemitism hearings singling out college presidents are part of Project 2025’s plan to discredit higher education
- Four CUNY professors say they were fired for supporting Palestine
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/15/cuny-professors-fired-palestine/ https://arabamericannews.com/2025/07/18/four-cuny-professors-say-they-were-fired-for-supporting-palestine/
- CUNY’s Repression of Pro-Palestine Students Continues in Front of Congress
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cuny-house-republicans-hearing-repression/
- Stefanik’s latest battle doesn’t fight antisemitism; it attacks due process
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5409278-elise-stefanik-targets-cuny-clear/
- 3 College Presidents Went to Congress. Here’s What They Talked About.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/3-college-presidents-went-to-congress-heres-what-they-talked-about
- 3 More Campus Leaders Face Congress
- House Republicans Grill CUNY Chief on Campus Antisemitism Claims
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/15/cuny-felix-matos-rodriguez-antisemitism-house-elise-stefanik/
- NYTimes: University Leaders Reject Republican Attacks on Campus Antisemitism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/politics/antisemitism-hearing-uc-berkeley-georgetown-cuny.html
- Rep. Elise Stefanik skewers CUNY chancellor, calls for his ouster over ‘failed’ leadership on NYC campus antisemitism
- Conservatives Denounce Professor for ‘Symbolic Strike’ Post
- Congress attacked CUNY on falsehoods
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/18/congress-attacked-cuny-on-falsehoods/
Brooklyn College
- Brooklyn College Faces Backlash Over Fired Faculty
Alliances
- The Only Hope Is Total and Unrelenting Resistance
https://www.chronicle.com/article/an-open-letter-from-arne-duncan
- MADCs Tracker (U Mass Amherst)
https://www.umass.edu/senate/madcs-tracker
- UFS Blog on Alliances
https://www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunyufs/2025/06/03/faculty-batten-down-and-arm-up-with-compacts/
- Stand Together for Higher Ed
https://www.standtogetherhighered.org/
- New link for CUNY MADC resolutions
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SqTGsQIu-HLfc8b_oeGiBKfSOE7IAKzw
- Medger Evers and CUNY Law pass resolutions adopting a attached mutual defense compact.
- More CUNY Senates have passed Mutual Defense Resolutions: Brooklyn, BMCC, LGCC, BCC, CSI,
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- Mutual Academic Defense Compact tracker
https://www.umass.edu/senate/madcs-tracker
- ‘At this point, we are a liberal democracy in decline’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/05/larry-diamond-trump-america-democracy/
- NYTimes: What Happened When Trump Altered the Deal With Law Firms and Universities
- NYTimes: Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/us/trump-university-presidents.html
- Exclusive | Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration - WSJ
- The Resistance Is Here
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/04/29/resistance-here
- More and More Faculty Groups Want Their Colleges to Stand Together Against Trump
- A call for unity among researchers, libraries, publishers, journalists and the public in fighting the Trump administration.
- NYTimes: This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/nyregion/rutgers-mdc-big-10.html
- NYTimes: Fight Like Our Democracy Depends on It
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/opinion/trump-100-days-opposition.html
Statements
- Protesting CUNY for Letting 4 Adjunct Faculty Go over Palestinian Rights and Suspending a Student
https://www.juancole.com/2025/08/protesting-letting-suspending.html
- Science and Democracy Under Siege | Union of Concerned Scientists
https://www.ucs.org/resources/science-and-democracy-under-siege https://www.ucs.org/sites/default/files/2025-07/6-Months-Trump-summary.pdf
- A Statement from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation on the Cancellation of
https://www.baughfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/Baugh-Foundation-Statement.pdf
- ACE, Others Call on Trump Administration to Reforge Compact with Higher Education
https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/ACE-Others-Trump-Admin-Reforge-Compact-Higher-Ed.aspx
Zoom calls
- Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bill: Higher Ed Fights Back
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SwJINs5xRWOzxQarIH1OvA#/registration
Coming attractions?
- Columbia, CUNY Law Professors Beat Trump in Court
- Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-california-federal-funding
- Medical School Accreditor Eliminates Diversity Standard
- NYTimes: Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/opinion/trump-danger-normalization-shock.html
- How I Lost Faith in My University’s Mission
- Trump admin backs Jewish professor’s discrimination case against CUNY school
- There’s a Darker Reason Trump Is Going After Those Law Firms
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/trump-law-firms-attacks.html
- McMahon Sharpens Tone on Accreditation
- The Trump Administration Widens Its Scrutiny of Colleges, With Help From the Internet
- On Student Aid, It’s Congressional Republicans vs. DOGE
https://www.chronicle.com/article/on-student-aid-its-congressional-republicans-vs-doge
- Senior State Department official sought internal communications with journalists, European officials, and Trump critics | MIT Technology Review
- Cal Poly, DePaul and Haverford Head to Capitol Hill
- Higher Education Leaders Call for Greater Defense of Board Independence
- A Looming Crisis for Public Colleges: If the federal government cuts Medicaid spending, state funding for higher ed will evaporate.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-looming-crisis-for-public-colleges
- NYTimes: I Know Trump’s Plan for Universities. It Transformed My College.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/opinion/trump-universities-woke.html
- NYTimes: West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/west-point-trump-military.html
- Indiana Budget Bill Contains Sweeping Higher Ed Changes
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/04/30/indiana-budget-bill-contains-sweeping-higher-ed https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-indiana-last-minute-additions-to-the-budget-take-aim-at-higher-ed
The media
- Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/politics/media-matters-musk-crisis.html
- FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn’t Anti-Trump
https://gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoint-a-babysitter-to-make-sure-cbs-isnt-anti-trump-2000634566
- departures-from-wapo
George Mason
- George Mason President Discriminated Against White People After George Floyd Protests, Justice Dept. Says
- NYTimes: In Virginia, the Attack on University Presidents Widens
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/virginia-university-presidents-dei-trump.html
- Trump administration widens probes into Virginia’s largest public university
- The Plot to Oust the President of George Mason University – This campaign is not about policy. It’s about power.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-plot-to-oust-the-president-of-george-mason-university
Hopkins
- America First Legal Urges DOJ to Investigate Hopkins for DEI
Congressional actions
- President Trump’s big tax-and-spending law includes new restrictions on how much students can borrow and how they repay. Here’s a guide to what is changing.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/trump-student-loans-tax-spending-bill-9dfc96eb
- NYTimes: What the Republicans’ New Policy Bill Means for Higher Education
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/trump-bill-education-college-student-loans.html
- What’s in the Senate Version of Trump’s Big Policy Bill? - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/upshot/senate-republican-megabill.html
- What the Senate’s Sprawling Policy Bill Means for Higher Ed
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-the-senates-sprawling-policy-bill-means-for-higher-ed
- Congress Eyes Cap on Parent PLUS Loans
- TransUnion: 5M Borrowers Could Default by September
- Graduate Programs Face a Federal Reckoning
- Education Department Outlines Plan to Change Debt-Relief Program for Public Servants
Testimony
- “Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology” testimony is rescheduled
https://edworkforce.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx
- UC Berkeley chancellor is prepping for Capitol Hill grilling
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/07/07/uc-berkeley-chancellor-is-prepping-for-capitol-hill-grilling
Protests
- PSC Resolution Condemns Retaliatory Firing of CUNY Faculty
- CUNY suspends student activist leader, fires four faculty members in escalation of repression against Palestine activism
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny-suspends-student-activist-leader-fires-four-faculty-members-in-escalation-of-repression-against-palestine-activism/ https://www.chronicle.com/article/an-anonymous-groups-list-of-purported-critics-of-israel-helped-steer-a-u-s-crackdown-on-student-activists
- One military ethics professor has resigned from teaching in protest, telling @RadioFreeTom that staying would have been both morally and practically untenable after chilling orders from Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth went into effect.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/academic-freedom-naval-war-college/683309/
- NYTimes: To Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/science/science-budget-cuts-protest-letters.html
- What Are the ‘No Kings’ Protests? 1,800 Anti-Trump Events on June 14
- NYTimes: Alarmed by Trump Cuts, Scientists Are Talking Science. For 100 Hours.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/climate/science-livestream-budget-cuts.html
- NY city and state lawmakers condemn CUNY chancellor after anti-Israel melee at Brooklyn College: ‘Step up or step down’
- Facing New Protests and Political Pressure, Colleges Are Taking a Harder Line
https://www.chronicle.com/article/facing-new-protests-and-political-pressure-colleges-are-taking-a-harder-line https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/nyregion/protest-brooklyn-college-arrests.html
- Trump administration praises Columbia’s response to protest after arrests
- The Trump administration praised Columbia University’s “strong and resolute” response to a pro-Palestinian campus protest Wednesday
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-protests-trump-8fc01720
Financial aid
- Trump ends interest subsidy for Biden’s student loan repayment plan
Survey results
- More Americans Trust Public Universities Than Private Ones
Off topic
- New Data Shows Attendance Fosters Student Success
Loss of expertise
- Preserving the Federal Data Trump Is Trying to Purge
Undocuments students
- Texas Ends In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students
Agencies
DOE OCR
- Senate Dems Grill Trump’s Pick to Lead the Office for Civil Rights
ICE
- NYTimes: Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Revoking Student Visas
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-international-student-visas.html
- Mahmoud Khalil: What does my detention by ICE say about America?
- Detained Tufts student must be transferred to Vermont, judge rules
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/19/judge-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-vermont-ice/
- Fearing Trump’s Visa Crackdown, College Students Race to Scrub Op-Eds - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-student-visas-newspaper-op-eds-61595294
- Trump cancels dozens of international student visas at UC, Stanford - Los Angeles Times
- Trump Admin Broadens Scope of Student Visa Terminations
- CUNY is not immune
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/education/2025/04/09/department-of-homeland-security-revokes-student-visas-at-cuny-and-fordham – schools-say https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/09/trump-administration-cancels-dozens-of-student-visas-at-nyu-cuny-other-ny-schools/
- Tracking Trump’s Actions on Student Visas
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-actions-on-student-visas
- With secret moves against international students, feds spread fear
- (Judge Suggests White House May Have Stretched Deportation Law Too Far
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/21/us/trump-news#trump-cornell-student-ice
- NYTimes: Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/columbia-student-ice-suit-yunseo-chung.html
- WP: New Trump demand to colleges: Name protesters — and their nationalities
- DHS detains Tufts grad student who advocated for Palestine and the “humanity of all people”
- NYTimes: ICE Agents Detain University of Alabama Doctoral Student
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-detains-doctoral-student-university-alabama.html
The long game
- America and Its Universities Need a New Social Contract - The Atlantic
- Liner Note 25. The Next 100 Days: Don’t Make the Trump Damage Worse (Thanks VAC)
https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/05/liner-note-25-next-100-days-dont-make.html
- NYTimes: On Education, DeSantis’s Florida Paved the Way for Trump’s America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/education-desantis-florida-trump.html
- NYTimes: 13 Ways to Save Health and Science
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opinion/save-health-science-climate.html
- NYTimes: The President Will Destroy You Now
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/opinion/trump-musk-doge-government.html
- Most Colleges Aren’t a Target of Trump (Yet). Here’s How Their Presidents Are Leading.
- Qatar has showered money on the U.S.’s military and universities, giving the tiny Gulf state outsize geopolitical clout
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/qatar-us-influence-spending-7a64dd75
Something good for a change
- Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/rapid-response-bridge-funding-program
- ‘Nonsense Detectives’ Give Academic Resources New Life Online
Ownership of content
- Morelle’s Statement on Abrupt Firing of Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights | Committee on House Administration
Can’t we all just get along?
- As Harvard fights Trump, one campus quietly prepares for the worst
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/27/gwu-harvard-trump-antisemitism/
- We Don’t Have to Hand It to Harvard
- NYTimes: Harvard Promises Changes After Reports on Antisemitism and Islamophobia
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/harvard-antisemitism-islamophobia-reports.html
- NYTimes: Trump Doesn’t Want to Protect All Jewish Students — Just Those on His Team
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/jewish-student-protesters-gaza.html
- NYTimes: Harvard, Under Pressure, Revamps D.E.I. Office
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/harvard-dei-law-review.html
- Trump admin hits Harvard with race-based discrimination investigation
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/harvard-law-review-trump-admin
- ‘It’s Punishment for the Sake of Punishment’
https://www-chronicle-com.csi.ezproxy.cuny.edu/article/its-punishment-for-the-sake-of-punishment
- Education Dept. Gives Penn 3 Demands After Finding Title IX Violation
- After Feds Warn U. of Virginia It Is Moving Too Slowly, Board Quickly Rescinds Diversity Goal
- Trump’s 100-Day War on Higher Ed
- What Revoking Tax-Exempt Status Would Mean for Harvard — and the Rest of Higher Ed
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-revoking-tax-exempt-status-would-mean-for-harvard-and-the-rest-of-higher-ed https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/us/white-house-harvard-tax-status
- NYTimes: Harvard’s Trick for Fighting Trump? A Deep Bench of Conservative Lawyers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/harvard-trump-conservative-lawyers.html
Harvard
- NYTimes: Harvard Adds to Legal Complaint Against Trump Administration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/harvard-trump-lawsuit.html
- Trump administration strikes back at Harvard with a 450 million cut
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/13/trump-administration-cuts-harvard-funding/
- NYTimes: As Harvard Battles Trump, Its President Will Take a 25% Pay Cut
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/harvard-garber-trump-pay.html
- NYTimes: Harvard Law Paid 27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/world/europe/harvard-law-magna-carta-original.html
- Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/feds-continue-effort-to-defund-research-at-harvard/ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.283718/gov.uscourts.mad.283718.59.9.pdf
- Harvard’s Battle With Trump Escalates as Research Money Is Suddenly Canceled
- NYTimes: Harvard Signals It Will Resist Trump’s Efforts to Revoke Tax-Exempt Status
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-status.html
- NYTimes: The Jewish Student Who Took On Harvard
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/shabbos-kestenbaum-harvard-lawsuit-settlement.html
- NYTimes: Trump and Harvard Both Want ‘Viewpoint Diversity.’ What Does It Mean?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/arts/harvard-trump-viewpoint-diversity.html
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Disqualifies Harvard From Future Research Grants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/politics/trump-harvard-research-grants.html https://x.com/EDSecMcMahon/status/1919517481313427594
- Deciphering the Trump Administration’s Latest Letter to Harvard
- Trump administration calls for a freeze on all new grants to Harvard
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/05/harvard-new-grants-freeze-trump/
- Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext – The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal. (Thanks BE for the sharing and the gift link!)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/mcmahon-harvard-letter/682717/
- Harvard Faculty Pledge 10% of Their Salary to Defend Against Trump
- NYTimes: Harvard Leaders See Only Bad Outcomes Ahead as They Battle Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/harvard-trump-court-case-negotiation.html
Columbia
- NYTimes: NASA Office Above ‘Seinfeld’ Diner Is a Target of Trump Budget Shrinkage
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/nyregion/nasa-office-columbia-seinfeld-toms-restaurant.html
- NYTimes: Orders to Investigate Columbia Protesters Raised Alarms in Justice Dept. (VAC)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/columbia-protests-justice-department.html
- Columbia Lays Off 180 Amid ‘Intense’ Financial Strain
- Exclusive | Trump Administration Proposes Terms for Federal Oversight of Columbia University - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-columbia-university-consent-decree-proposal-d21830f2
- NYTimes: Police Remove Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Occupying Columbia Library
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/nyregion/columbia-protest-library-occupied.html
- New York police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University
Dartmouth
- NYTimes: How One Ivy League University Has Avoided Trump’s Retribution So Far
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/us/politics/dartmouth-college-trump.html
Penn State
- Facing 20 M Loss, Penn State Declares Support for Lawsuit Against NSF Over Research Funding Cut (Thanks MP)
U Penn
- Education Dept.’s Penn Demands Show Shift in Title IX
knee flexion is exceptional
- Why I Chose the University of Florida
Letters/Statements
- Several CUNY senates have passed alliance resolutions
[https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/my5g55jprx5o64r4vzus0/ABqQBAimqk Markdown.Italic(Any“KN5t-EsUG8Ds/1.Mutual%20Defense%20Statements
- Several CUNY senates have passed alliance resolutions
[https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/my5g55jprx5o64r4vzus0/ABqQBAimqk Markdown.Italic(Any“KN5t-EsUG8Ds/1.Mutual%20Defense%20Statements
- PSC, UUP, and NYSUT (representing public higher education in NY State) speak out in a press statement
- We Must Leverage the Strength of Our Institutions and Stand Together
https://sites.google.com/view/we-must-leverage-the-strength/home
- Advocating for Brown – What’s at stake | Office of the President | Brown University
https://president.brown.edu/president/advocating-brown-whats-stake
Chancellor Matos-Rodriguez emails CUNY faculty and staff about Standing Together.
The UFS Executive Committee write a statement Together We Stand.
Public Statement: A Call for Constructive Engagement by AAC&U
https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement
- Big Ten university faculties push for defense compact against Trump
- Progressive Caucus: Open Letter to New York City College and University Presidents
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h9AatjXiICGMKQgWIeUMOtlc5dNOEUZCUFfwHEBy8pc/edit
Queensborough Community College joint statement: CALL FOR ACTION Affirming Academic Freedom and Access to Higher Education
A statement from the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. (Thanks VAC)
https://www.amacad.org/news/board-statement-values-april-2025
- University protests blast Trump’s attacks on funding, speech and international students
SEVIS VISA uncancellation
- ICE Expands Student Deportation Powers
- Trump Administration Reverses Course on Student Visa Cancellations - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/trump-student-visa-cancellations.html
- Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations
- International Students Who Lost Their Immigration Status Will Have It Restored, Government Says
- At Least 15 Florida Institutions Have ICE Agreements
- Fordham, CUNY international student visas reinstated — at least temporarily
- ICE Expands Student Deportation Powers
DOT, NEA
- Department of Transportation, NEA Cut Federal Grants
- National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters
- Every arts director at the NEA exits federal culture agency
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/05/07/nea-staff-departure/
DOE
- The Trump administration will put millions of defaulted student-loan borrowers into collections starting Monday and is threatening to confiscate their wages and federal benefits
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/student-loans-debt-payments-collections-6fd28ed3
- Trump administration to resume collection on student loans in default : NPR
- Education Department Rolls Back Decades of Civil Rights Progress Under Trump — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination
- Education Dept. Cancels Fulbright-Hays Applications, at Least for Now
Funding un-cuts
- NYTimes: Mellon Foundation Announces 15 Million for Humanities Councils
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/arts/mellon-foundation-humanities-endowment.html
- Gates Foundation to Spend 200 B Before Closing in 2045
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/05/09/gates-foundation-spend-200b-closing-2045
Hitting replay
- NYTimes: Congress Grills College Presidents With an Old Script and New Threats
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/us/congress-hearing-college-presidents-haverford.html
- Under Republicans’ Scrutiny, College Presidents Apologize for Their Handling of Campus Antisemitism
Alternate Reality
- NYTimes: On California’s State Bar Exam, More Questions Than Answers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/california-state-bar-exam.html
- PBS News Hour: Conservative activist Christopher Rufo on his push to scrutinize higher education
- White House Partners With Hillsdale for Lecture Series
- Coming to a theater near you…
https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/
Tracking web sites
- Chronicle of Higher Education
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-higher-eds-dismantling-of-dei
Free Speech/Free Expression/Protests
- Trump Antisemitism Task Force Praises Yale Protest Crackdown
- Senate Committee Postpones Vote on Antisemitism Awareness Act
Accreditation
- ED Announces Further Changes to Accreditation
- Are You Ready for the AI University?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/are-you-ready-for-the-ai-university
- Is Your Online Student a Bot?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-your-online-student-a-bot
- “Trump to Sign Executive Order Targeting University Accreditors”
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-accreditors-executive-order-universities-4e4366cc
- NYTimes: Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting College Accreditors
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/trump-executive-order-university-accreditors.html
- Trump orders changes to civil rights rules, college accreditation
- The EO
- Accreditors Sound Off on Executive Order
- Middle States issues and Advocacy Alert
https://www.msche.org/2025/04/23/advocacy-alert-executive-order-regarding-accreditation/
Resources
- American Historical Association Statements on Academic Freedom and International Scholars (Thanks EST)
https://www.historians.org/why-history-matters/aha-advocacy/resources-for-foreign-scholars/
Free Speech
- Anti-DEI Guidance Letter Put On Hold, for Now
Other EOs
- EO on foreign monies
- With the U.S. cracking down on student loan payments, is college still worth it?
Behind the curtain
- Trump’s destructive war on academia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/19/trump-harvard-irs-nixon-universities/
- A new task force formed to combat antisemitism on campus is rattling university administrators by using funding threats to force broader changes.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/anti-semitism-task-force-who-247c234e
Bent
- NYTimes: Columbia Displays More Aggressive Posture in Dealing With Demonstrators
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/nyregion/columbia-security-protesters-removed.html
- How conservatives are using Columbia as a ‘test case’ to enforce Trump’s agenda
- Trump Administration Wants to Install Federal Oversight of Columbia University - The Wall Street Journal. (Thanks KB)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-consent-decree-trump-federal-funding-2f4c4690
- NYTimes: How Colleges Are Cracking Down on Students Now
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/universities-students-search-warrants.html
- NYTimes: Leaders of Harvard’s Middle Eastern Studies Center Will Leave
- Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/nyregion/nyu-doctor-speech-canceled.html
Cornell
- NYTimes: Cornell Cancels Kehlani Performance Over Her Stance on the War in Gaza
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/nyregion/kehlani-cornell-concert-replaced.html
Unbent
- Trump and Vance fear universities for a reason
- President Trump has tested his authority with such force that other institutions—universities, law firms and many lawmakers—have started to fight back
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-authority-resistance-law-firms-universities-424632ae
- Can Colleges Survive Trump’s Cuts
https://www.chronicle.com/article/can-colleges-survive-trumps-cuts
- NYTimes: Trump Tried to Derail Our Work. We Banded Together, and Moved Forward.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/opinion/earth-day-nature-report-trump.html
- NYTimes: This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/opinion/trump-higher-education.html
- NYTimes: Trump’s Threats Force Institutions to Choose: Cut a Deal or Fight Back
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-universities-law-firms-deals.html
- NYTimes: It’s Time to Protect America From America’s President
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/trump-harvard-abrego-garcia.html
- NYTimes: Time for a Civic Uprising
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html
- NYTimes: A Playbook for Standing Up to President Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/opinion/trump-law-firms-universities.html
- NYTimes: Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up for Core Values
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/obama-trump-college-speech.html
- Eisgruber signals that Princeton will not make concessions (Thanks KB)
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/04/princeton-news-adpol-eisgruber-university-concessions-bloomberg-interview https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-university-president-willing-to-fight-trump/id1200361736
- NYTimes: New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. Order (Thanks VAC)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/new-york-trump-dei-order.html
- Boards Must Fight for Institutional Independence (opinion)
- NYTimes: I’m Cornell’s President. We’re Not Afraid of Debate and Dissent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/opinion/ideas-universities-controversey-protest.html
- NYTimes: If Powerful Places Like Harvard Don’t Stand Up to Trump, Who Can?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opinion/larry-summers-harvard-trump.html
Harvard
- Trump’s freeze on 2.2 billion to Harvard provided no proof of wrongdoing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/17/harvard-trump-grant-freeze-antisemitism/
- NYTimes: Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html
- Harvard pushes back on claim that Trump team mistakenly sent demand letter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/19/harvard-trump-letter-mistake-unauthorized/
- NYTimes: In Trump Attack on Harvard, Punishment Before Proof
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/trump-harvard-legal-process.html
- The Trump administration has grown so furious with Harvard that it is planning to pull an additional 1 billion of the school’s funding for health research
- Education Dept. Seeks Records From Harvard Related to Foreign Gifts and Contracts
- Harvard School of Public Health Begins Layoffs As Trump Slashes Funding
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/18/hsph-layoffs/
- NYTimes: Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Threats to Cut Funding
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/harvard-lawsuit-trump-administration.html
- Harvard’s President Says the University Will Not Comply With Trump’s Demands
- The American Association of University Professors and its chapter at Harvard University sued the Trump administration Friday in an attempt to block the administration’s policy changes and review of nearly 9 billion in federal funding.
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Will Freeze 2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/harvard-trump-reject-demands.html
- Stanford president and provost back Harvard in funding fight
https://stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/levin-martinez-back-harvard-president/
- Yale too
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5250248-harvard-receives-support-from-yale-stanford/
- NYTimes: Why Harvard Decided to Fight Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/why-harvard-resisted-trumps-demands.html
- By saying ‘no’ to Trump, Harvard saves its soul
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/15/harvard-trump-grants-david-ignatius/
- IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/politics/irs-harvard-tax-exempt-status/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/16/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-irs/
- NYTimes: With Harvard Threat, Trump Tries to Bend the I.R.S. to His Will
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/politics/trump-irs.html
- Donald Trump Tries to Run Harvard
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-harvard-funding-conditions-constitution-congress-c26040f8
- What Harvard Has Set the Stage For
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/harvard-university-trump.html
- Harvard Had No Choice
https://www-chronicle-com.csi.ezproxy.cuny.edu/article/harvard-had-no-choice
Columbia
- NYTimes: Protesters Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates, Calling for Activists’ Release
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/columbia-protests-khalil-mahdawi-ice.html
- NYTimes: If You’re Boycotting Columbia, Your Priorities Are All Wrong
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/columbia-university-boycott-trump.html
Brown
- Brown Takes Out 300 Million Loan
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/04/17/brown-takes-out-300-million-loan
Cornell
- Cornell Sues DOE for ‘Unlawful’ Cuts to Indirect Costs for Research Grants - The Cornell Daily Sun
- ACE and others file lawsuite to prevent DOE cuts
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.283318/gov.uscourts.mad.283318.1.0.pdf
Coming attractions
- U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/nyregion/barnard-faculty-eeoc-text-jewish.html
- College financial aid hit with glitches, delays due to federal staffing cuts
- America and Its Universities Need a New Social Contract
- This is a good analysis of the nefarious political and ideological sources of the current attacks on higher education, writ-large (Thanks DM)
- Webb telescope detects a possible signature of life on a distant world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/16/alien-life-exoplanet-webb-telescope/
- Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/16/women-and-minorities-fired-nih-board-science/
- NYTimes: Vandalism of Muslim Prayer Room at N.Y.U. Is Investigated as Hate Crime
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/nyregion/vandalism-muslim-prayer-room-nyu.html
- ‘It reminds you of a fascist state’: Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/smithsonian-institution-trump-executive-order
- 400 Books Removed From Naval Academy Library
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/04/03/400-books-removed-naval-academy-library
- NYTimes: ‘What Is Our Country Becoming?’ Four Columnists Map Out Where Trump Is Taking America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/opinion/trump-ice-detentions.html
Freedom of Speech
- Under Trump, freedom of speech in universities takes on a new meaning (From BE)
- Palestinian Columbia student detained by ICE at citizenship interview
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/14/columbia-mohsen-mahdawi-arrested-ice/
Public statements by Colleges and Universities
- Teachers College (Thanks CW)
Academic Freedom
- Add John Jay to the list of campuses speaking out about academic freedom violations by endorsing the UFS Letter in Defense of Academic Freedom.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/my5g55jprx5o64r4vzus0/AO9WLNUUIorJRhgTO1SupgY
- Academic freedom statements issued after Governor Hochul demanded the removal of a job ad at Hunter College:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/my5g55jprx5o64r4vzus0/AO9WLNUUIorJRhgTO1SupgY
- Columbia AAUP Urges University to Reject Trump’s Demands
- The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia (Princeton President)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/columbia-academic-freedom/682088/
- Columbia nearing agreement to give trump what he wants
- Plan to strip U Penn of 175M in funding
- Academic Freedom Index: ‘serious concern’ for US universities (Paywall; Thanks BE)
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academic-freedom-index-serious-concern-us-universities
- Congress Eyes More Control Over Colleges
- Northwestern Journalism Professor Says Pro-Palestinian Activism Cost Him Tenure
- “Shared Governance Is Crumbling”
https://www.chronicle.com/article/shared-governance-is-crumbling
- Guidance issued by NY State AG Letitia James, and 13 other Attorneys General including, but not limited to, threats to DEI related programs and funding:
- More responses to the Governor Hochul action re Hunter College: York, LGCC, Brooklyn College. [Links requested]. This is in addition to responses previously recorded including that of the UFS Executive Committee and Academic Freedom Committee Chairs, the PSC, SUNY Fredonia, AAUP, MESA; and articles in the New Republic and elsewhere
DEI
- My Book, “White Too Long,” Banned from US Naval Academy
https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/my-book-white-too-long-banned-from
DOE
- NYTimes: When Trump Is Done, What Will Remain of Public Education?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/opinion/trump-k-12-education.html
Vindictiveness
- NYTimes: List: Who Trump Has Targeted for Retribution
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/07/us/trump-revenge-list.html
- This Professor Is Committed to Rooting Out DEI From Higher Ed, One Program at a Time
Days of action
- SSJ Emergency Faculty Townhall (4/3) (Scholars for Social Justice)
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VmK3TVTVRJOae5wUO95EZA#/registration
- Kill the cuts (Labor for Higher Education) (4/8) – thanks Kimora
https://airtable.com/appMQQqeVbCYe7DJM/pagJwN43Y1R1v0dlL/form https://www.killthecuts.org/
- We are higher ed (Not sure who this is)
https://www.wearehighered.org/events
- AAUP: 4/17 fight for higher education
https://www.dayofactionforhighered.org/
- TEACH-IN: Academic Freedom, Resistance, and Empowerment
Senate resolutions
- Resolution to Establish a Mutual Defense Compact for the Universities of the Big Ten Academic Alliance in Defense of Academic Freedom, Institutional Integrity, and the Research Enterprise
CUNY
Brian Lehrer’s show hadCUNY colleagues respond (Thanks BE)
Willa, Brooklyn, CUNY Newmark Graduate School for Journalism
LaRoi, Queens, Bronx Community College
FOE/Academic Freedom
- Utah Lawmakers Mandate a University Refocus Gen-Ed Courses on Civics and Viewpoint Diversity
- No Noncitizen Professor at My Institution Can Speak About Politics Ever Again
- Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public) - Google Drive
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J_bcoMqt46L05As7GN4ZqH4j6XKeI-Dm4ytJPRFtrwo/htmlview
Funding
- Trump Administration to Review Billions in Grants to Harvard - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-31/trump-administration-to-review-billions-in-grants-to-harvard https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/03/31/trump-investigates-harvards-federal-funding https://www.chronicle.com/article/trump-administration-to-review-9-billion-in-federal-funding-to-harvard
- NYTimes: Professors Pushed Harvard to Resist Trump. Now Billions Are on the Line.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/republicans-harvard-funding.html
- NYTimes: Trump Pauses Dozens of Federal Grants to Princeton
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/trump-federal-grants-princeton.html
- Who Is on Trump’s Antisemitism Task Force?
- Staff and Funding Cuts at the NEH Loom
- Researchers, Higher Ed Union Fight NIH Grant Terminations
- NYTimes: The Next Generation of American Scientists Is Losing Faith
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opinion/young-american-scientists.html
- NYTimes: I Led Harvard’s Medical School, and I Fear for What’s to Come
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/opinion/harvard-medicine-higher-education.html
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Sends Harvard a List of Demands to Protect Federal Funds
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/trump-harvard-funding-demands.html
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Set to Pause 510 Million for Brown University
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/trump-administration-brown-university-funding-pause.html
- Trump Plans to Move Troubled Financial-Aid Office to Decimated Small Business Administration
- NYTimes: ‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the Crown Jewel of American Science
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/health/nih-doge-trump.html
- NYTimes: Columbia Faculty Protests as Trump Officials Hail University Concessions
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/columbia-trump-response.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/opinion/trump-toxins-cancer-environment.html
- WP: EPA knew it wrongfully canceled dozens of environmental grants, documents show
- CUNY Programming cut – a private funder (Thanks MP)
https://www.thecity.nyc/newsletter/private-funder-axes-cuny-diversity-initiative/
- “The Authoritarian Endgame on Higher Education”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/opinion/trump-research-cuts.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/opinion/trump-research-cuts.html
- Demands on Columbia to restore funding “Reflect Assault on Higher Ed”
- Impact of funding cuts at Columbia
- Impact on hiring due to uncertainty on federal funding
- NYU Administration letter to faculty
ICE / deportations
- A militant Zionist group threatens activists online with a ‘deport list’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/29/zionist-palestinians-deportations-x/
- ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
https://zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revoking-university-students-residency-status-middle-east https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/04/03/how-trump-wreaking-havoc-student-visa-system
- ICE tracker
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map
- NYTimes: Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-ice-immigrants.html
- NYTimes: Cornell Student Facing Deportation Felt Drawn to Protest
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/cornell-student-deportation-protest.html
CUNY Guidance
- CUNY finally offered something like guidance on ICE and immigration enforcement to the presidents. My president made copies of this and left them for my Senators. I’m sharing with you for further distribution as you see fit. (Thanks EI)
- University URLs to Support Our Students. The Student Affairs Committee of the UFS wrote a blog canvassing many areas within CUNY’s websites as regards supporting our students:
https://www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunyufs/2025/03/21/university-urls-to-support-our-students/
- Supporting Our Students Part Two
https://www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunyufs/2025/03/25/supporting-our-students-part-two/
Hunter College
- EI continues to update his archive of statements made by campuses and organizations in support of Academic Freedom as relates to its infringement at Hunter College.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/my5g55jprx5o64r4vzus0/AO9WLNUUIorJRhgTO1SupgY
- Hunter job is re-listed
Freedom of Expression
- NYTimes: Immigrants and Freedom of Speech
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/briefing/immigration-trump-constitution.html
- The Culture War Is No Longer Just a Culture War
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/trump-khalil-columbia-speech.html
- “The End of the University as We Know It”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/university-defunding-trump-rufo.html
- “Nobody can protect you” – advice given to some students at Columbia University
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/nyregion/columbia-university-trump-protests.html
- University of Minnesota, under Federal Scrutiny, Limits Its Political Speech
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/university-of-minnesota-political-speech.html
- Mahmoud Khalil arrested at Columbia under
https://www.chronicle.com/article/an-ice-arrest-at-columbia-u-stokes-outrage-and-raises-legal-questions https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5326015/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-arrests-trump https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/opinion/mahmoud-khalil-free-speech.html
- Dept. of Homeland Security search two dorm rooms at Columbia University
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/dorm-search-columbia-university-dhs.html
- “Exigent circumstances” allow ICE on campus without warrant
- Just this week, the Chancellor formed a committee to draft a freedom of expression policy co-chaired by CUNY’s General Counsel and the UFS chairperson. The starting point for this discussion will be the 2016 attempt to bring forth such a policy. The time frame will be that full vetting of a draft will occur in the fall, and during the spring there will be chances for input from members of the CUNY community.
Bent knee
- Columbia University caves to demands to restore 400 m from Trump administration
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/columbia-university-funding-trump-demands https://www.chronicle.com/article/facing-a-loss-of-400-million-columbia-u-concedes-to-trumps-demands
- NYTimes: Adams Uses Agency ‘Tracker’ to Control Messaging on Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/adams-trump-tracker.html
- University leaders, pinned between liberal faculty and the Trump administration, are quietly trying to make friends in Washington
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/universities-trump-lobbyists-funding-washington-a2e5c77a
- Donald Trump’s insecurity state
- Columbia Capitulated — But So Did the Rest of Higher Ed (Thanks Kimora)
- NYTimes: University of Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/education/university-of-michigan-dei.html
Un-bent knee
- How a University Fights an Authoritarian Regime
https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-a-university-fights-an-authoritarian-regime
- NYTimes: ‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/world/europe/trump-courts-defiance-autocrats-playbook.html
- Trump can’t fix American universities by breaking them
- NYTimes: 15 Billion Is Enough to Fight a President
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/opinion/trump-university-endowment-spending.html
- Legal scholars on what Columbia University should have done — and what other colleges could do next.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/it-is-remarkable-how-quickly-the-chill-has-descended
- This Time, Higher Ed’s Resistance to Trump is Being Led by Its Associations
- NYTimes: David Leonhardt on How Universities Can Stop Trump’s ‘Destroying Agenda’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/opinion/universities-trump-fight-back.html
- Dear Colleagues: The Time for Boldness Is Now
Deportations
- NYTimes: U.S. Lodges New Accusations Against Detained Columbia Protest Leader
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-trump-allegations.html
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Appeals Court Overturns Block on Parts of Trump’s DEI Orders
DOE/OCR
- “Education Department Investigates Dozens of Colleges for Discrimination”
- States sue to block DOE layoffs
- Is Title VI the New Title IX?
https://www-chronicle-com.csi.ezproxy.cuny.edu/article/is-title-vi-the-new-title-ix
- Is this the end of the Department of Education?
Dear Colleague
- Trump is setting the US on a path to educational authoritarianism (thanks EI)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/trump-us-path-educational-authoritarianism
Students
- Georgetown University graduate student detained by immigration authorities
- Here’s a resource that specifically lists those actions that impact colleges and universities work with international students, scholars, and faculty. (Thanks SF)
https://www.nafsa.org/executive-and-regulatory-actions-trump2admin
Tell me why
- Why might higher education be under
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/andreessen-musk-trump-silicon-valley.html
Funding removal
- White House cancels 400M in grants and contracts to Columbia (NIH funding was 250M of this)
- 800M of JHU funding stripped
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/johns-hopkins-university-antisemitism-claims-funding-cuts-maryland/#:~:text=JHU%20funding%20cuts&text=In%20a%20letter%2C%20Daniels%20said,%2C%20Jhpiego%2C%20had%20been%20terminated. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/johns-hopkins-layoffs-usaid-funding/index.html
- 30M of University or Maine funding stripped in effort to punish Maine’s governor
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/usda-suspends-maine-university-funding-trump-row-transgender-athletes-rcna196011 https://www.wabi.tv/2025/03/13/university-maines-usda-funding-restored/
DOE/Civil rights
- 60 campuses targeted yesterday by the DOE
- Democratic Attorneys General sue the gutting of DOE staffing: