List of article by topic
Letters
- 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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Academic freedom
- 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
- 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/
Freedom of expression
- 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
Anti-woke/anti-DEI is simply racism
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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/
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
NSF
- 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
DOD
- Trump admin curtails colleges’ defense research
https://statements.cornell.edu/2025/20250408-federal-research-funding.cfm
DOE
- 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
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?
NEH
- 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)
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)
Congressional actions
- 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
Institutional assaults
- 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/
Harvard
- 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
- 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/
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
UVA
- 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
- 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
Others
- 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
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
- 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
AI misdeeds
- 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/
Alliances
- 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,
[https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/my5g55jprx5o64r4vzus0/ABqQBAimqk Markdown.Italic(Any“KN5t-EsUG8Ds/1.Mutual%20Defense%20Statements
- 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
Protests
- 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
Survey results
- More Americans Trust Public Universities Than Private Ones
How best to describe the times we are in
- 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
Op eds
- 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
Federal Agencies
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
DOE/OCR
- Colleges Can’t Trust the Federal Government. What Now?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-cant-trust-the-federal-government-what-now
Tracking projects
- Tracking Trump’s Higher-Ed Agenda
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda
- DefendResearch
Off topic
- New Data Shows Attendance Fosters Student Success
Loss of expertise
- Preserving the Federal Data Trump Is Trying to Purge
Coming attractions?
- 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
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
Statements
- 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
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
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
Brown
- Brown Takes Out 300 Million Loan
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/04/17/brown-takes-out-300-million-loan
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: