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Academic freedom
- RFK Jr. Secures Pledges From Medical Schools to Beef Up Nutrition Education
- Censoring Courses Isn’t the Law in Texas. Public Universities Are Doing It Anyway.
- UNC Board OKs Definition of What Academic Freedom Is, and Isn’t
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2026/02/26/unc-board-oks-definition-what-academic-freedom-and https://www.northcarolina.edu/apps/bog/doc.php
- Florida Hands Down Sociology Curriculum to State Colleges
- NYTimes: Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/us/professors-classroom-surveillance-politics.html
- Houston University Asks Faculty to Pledge Not to “Indoctrinate” Students
- Lectures on Race Canceled at Arkansas-Little Rock
- Florida Introduces ‘Sanitized’ Sociology Textbook
- UNC Plans to Define Academic Freedom—and Its Limits
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2026/01/29/unc-plans-define-what-academic-freedom-and-isnt https://www.northcarolina.edu/apps/bog/doc.php
- Texas Tech Cancels Abortion Rights Advocate’s Speech After TPUSA Pressure
- This Spat Shows Just How Messy Texas A&M’s New Course Reviews Are
https://www.chronicle.com/article/this-spat-shows-just-how-messy-texas-a-ms-new-course-reviews-are
- The Legal Status of the Assault on Higher Education
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-legal-status-of-the-assault-on-higher-education
- University of Oklahoma removes instructor after grading dispute on gender essay
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/12/23/oklahoma-university-gender-essay-bible/
- NYTimes: Texas A&M Will Not Reinstate Lecturer Fired Over Gender Lesson
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/us/texas-am-decline-reinstate-fired-faculty-member.html
- Populist Attacks on Academic Freedom: How Populist Leadership Erodes Academic Freedom in Liberal and Electoral Democracies | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
- The Classroom, Caught on Camera – -Professors and students are increasingly worried what they say in class could end up on the internet.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-surveilled-classroom
- When Everyone Can See Your Syllabus
https://www.chronicle.com/article/when-everyone-can-see-your-syllabus
- Is Your Course Content ‘Relevant’ and ‘Necessary’? – -Texas Tech faculty are having to scrutinize lessons on race, gender, and even ‘The Great Gatsby.’
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-your-course-content-relevant-and-necessary
- The Man Behind Texas Tech’s Controversial Curriculum Crackdown – -Brandon Creighton believes colleges should focus on careers and salaries — not contested ideas about race, gender, and sexuality.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-man-behind-texas-techs-controversial-curriculum-crackdown
- NYTimes: How One Student’s Failing Grade Became a Cause Célèbre on the Right
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/opinion/college-student-complaints.html
Another Okla. Instructor Put On Leave, This Time for ‘Viewpoint Discrimination’
After Censoring Again, Weber State Says It Will Be ‘More Nuanced’ in Applying Law
- IU Prof Suspended for White Supremacy Graphic Returns to Class
- A Conservative Student Got a Zero on Her Paper about Gender. Did She Deserve It?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-conservative-student-got-a-zero-on-her-paper-about-gender-did-she-deserve-it https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/12/02/oklahoma-ta-leave-student-claims-religious https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/oklahoma-bible-essay-gender-teasing-zero.html
- Texas Tech Puts Its Anti-Trans Rules In Writing
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/12/02/texas-tech-puts-its-anti-trans-rules-writing https://www.chronicle.com/article/at-texas-tech-professors-now-need-permission-to-teach-about-race-and-gender
- Lawsuit Accuses Hispanic Scholarship Fund of Discrimination
- NYTimes: Texas A&M Was Wrong to Fire Professor Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/texas-am-professor-gender-lesson-panel-ruling.html
- Texas State Board Upholds Firing of Professor
- Indiana’s Attack on Intellectual Diversity
- Ky. Professor ‘Reassigned’ After Call for War on Israel Sues
- New Report: Civil Rights Law Weaponized to Chill Speech
https://www.aaup.org/news/new-report-civil-rights-law-weaponized-chill-speech https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/2025-11/Discriminating-Against-Dissent_0.pdf https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/11/21/public-universities-dont-want-discuss-compact
- An Instructor Showed a Graphic on White Supremacy. Did She Break the Law?
- Texas A&M Faculty Council Says Professor’s Dismissal Violated Academic Freedom
- NYTimes: Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/texas-am-gender-race-ideology-rules-classroom.html https://www.chronicle.com/article/texas-a-m-system-sharply-restricts-how-faculty-can-teach-about-race-and-gender https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/11/13/texas-am-requires-approval-courses-advocate-certain
- U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations
- ‘I Don’t Feel Safe in This Classroom’ – -Their teaching aimed to make white students uncomfortable. Then came the civil-rights complaint.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/i-dont-feel-safe-in-this-classroom
- Yes, colleges face a crisis. It’s also an opportunity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/06/colleges-universities-trump-compact/
- GOP Senator Accuses AAUP President of Exacerbating ‘Organizational Antisemitism’
- NYTimes: How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/history-lessons-ethnic-studies-retreat.html
- NYTimes: All but 2 Universities Decline a Trump Offer of Preferential Funding
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/politics/universities-funding-compact.html
- White House hits roadblock in effort to get top colleges to agree to deal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/20/trump-administration-college-compact/
- Many Colleges Have Turned Down Trump’s Compact. Now Some Are Willing to Talk.
- Vanderbilt Didn’t Accept or Reject the Compact. The Chancellor Plans to Provide Feedback Instead.
- The MAGA case for academic freedom lies in a period Trump loves
- How the Compact Curtails Academic Freedom
- Reading Between the Lines on Compact Responses
- Trump Opens Up Compact to All of Higher Ed. Now What?
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/2025/10/15/trump-opens-compact-all-higher-ed-now-what
- The Compact Calls for a Unified ‘F You’
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/editors-note/2025/10/16/compact-calls-unified-f-you
- NYTimes: Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/opinion/trump-compact-universities-rowan.html
- Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump’s “Compact” | Cato at Liberty Blog
https://www.cato.org/blog/universities-must-defend-their-independence
- NYTimes: Universities Are Standing Up to Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/universities-are-standing-up-to-trump.html
- UNC Campuses Split on Whether Syllabi Are Public Documents
- Our Politics Differ, But We Agree: Trump’s ‘Compact’ Violates Academic Freedom
- Trump makes colleges an offer they can refuse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/03/higher-education-compact-federal-contract-trump/
- Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President
https://president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10/response-compact-academic-excellence-higher-education
- AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for… | AAC&U
- Higher Ed Sounds Off on Proposed Compact
- Opinion | The Trump Administration’s ‘Compact’ Is a Trap
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-trump-administrations-compact-is-a-trap
- The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-art-of-replacing-law-with-deal.html
- NYTimes: You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/opinion/trump-universities-compact-civil-society.html
- Reject the Compact’ petition urges USC not to sign Trump’s contract – Annenberg Media
- When Viewpoint Diversity Means Conformity
https://www.chronicle.com/article/when-viewpoint-diversity-means-conformity
- Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/201376/trump-compact-academic-excellence-university-virginia
- The White House Sent Its Compact to 9 Universities. Here’s What Their Administrators and Faculty Are Saying.
- How Trump’s Compact Threatens Higher Ed Funding, Freedom
- NYTimes: Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/nyregion/rutgers-professor-threats-antifa.html
- NYTimes: Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/politics/texas-tech-gender.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/09/30/texas-ban-transgender-course-content-sows-chaos https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-higher-eds-dismantling-of-dei https://thedailytexan.com/2025/09/30/ut-system-announces-audit-of-gender-studies-courses/
- Texas Tech Clarified Anti-Trans Policies in FAQ—Then Removed It
- Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cornell-pro-palestinian-professor-classes-cancelled/#
- Discretion Is Not the Better Part of Academic Freedom
- UNC Professor on Leave After Alleged Advocacy of Political Violence
- Angelo State May Ban Pride Flags, Pronouns and Preferred Names
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/09/24/angelo-state-reportedly-banning-pride-flags https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-public-university-in-texas-bans-discussion-of-transgender-topics-in-class
- Angelo State Allows LGBQ Discussions, Holds Firm on Anti-Trans Policies
- Mamdani Offers Support for Fired CUNY Professors at Brooklyn College Rally - Left Voice
https://www.leftvoice.org/mamdani-offers-support-for-fired-cuny-professors-at-brooklyn-college-rally/ https://nypost.com/2025/09/06/us-news/mamdani-sanders-use-brooklyn-college-event-to-push-pro-palestine-anti-israel-agenda/
- ‘Higher Ed Alone Cannot Save Democracy’ – interview with AAUP leader
- Academic Freedom under attack:
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/08/12/shocking-cancellation-special-journal-issue-opinion https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/22/harvard-educational-review-palestine-issue-cancelled
- Kentucky Professor Calling for Global War to End Israel Removed From Teaching
- NYTimes: Judge Bars Trump Administration From Punishing 2 Law Professors for I.C.C. Work
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/politics/trump-icc-lawyers.html
- NYTimes: Army Secretary Orders West Point to Pull Appointment of Former Biden Official
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/politics/army-secretary-west-point-trump-loomer.html
- A different take on academic freedom.
- Academic Freedom Was Already Limited at U.S. Service Academies. Then Came Trump.
- ‘A Banner Year for Censorship’: More States Are Restricting Classroom Discussions on Race and Gender
- Tulane Environmentalist Resigns Amid Research ‘Gag Order’
- Red states tell colleges: Race and gender classes are out, civics in
- House Democrats Air Grievances With McMahon
- NYTimes: A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/magazine/academic-freedom-politics.html
- Texas House OKs more state oversight of public universities | The Texas Tribune
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/24/texas-governing-boards-regents-senate-bill-37/
- In Defense of Academic Freedom - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/05/in-defense-of-academic-freedom/682914/
- A Tumultuous Spring Semester Finally Comes to a Close | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/a-tumultuous-spring-semester-finally-comes-to-a-close
- Utah Lawmakers Flex Their Power Over Public Universities
- We Don’t Need More Administrators Inspecting Our Ideas
https://www.chronicle.com/article/we-dont-need-more-administrators-inspecting-our-ideas
- RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/rfk-jr-ban-journals-lancet-jama/
- NYTimes: The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/project-esther-heritage-foundation-palestine.html
- The Visionary of Trump 2.0 - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/russell-vought-trump-doge/682821/ https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-quietly-kills-rule-to-shield-americans-from-data-brokers/
- Trump’s Attacks on International Students Are the Start of a Wider War | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/195142/trump-war-international-students-university https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/
- Skilled immigration on the chopping block? Effects of eliminating “Optional Practical Training” in the US | PIIE
- We Don’t Need More Administrators Inspecting Our Ideas
https://www.chronicle.com/article/we-dont-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
- An anti-KKK law was used to end a scholarship for Black students
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/11/04/ucsandiego-scholarship-black-students/
- Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law - al.com
- Judge Keeps Alabama’s Anti-DEI Law in Place for Now
- ecretly Recorded by Anti-DEI Group, ‘No Longer Employed’
- Where Anti-DEI Legislation Has Been Proposed
- NYTimes: Trump Withholds Nearly 7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/trump-education-funds.html
- A Decades-Old Government Program That Supports Hispanic Students Is Under Fresh Scrutiny
- What Is Replacing DEI? Racism.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-is-replacing-dei-racism
- Trump addresses a West Point upended by his changes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/24/trump-west-point-graduation-dei-military/
- NYTimes: For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-race-civil-right-white-men.html
- How Harmeet Dhillon is engineering a U-turn in the Justice Department’s civil-rights division
- Uncle Sam’s new message to young Black Americans: I don’t want you
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/27/trump-military-hostile-black-americans/
- The Era of DEI for Conservatives Has Begun
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/conservative-professors-dei-initiatives/682944/
Freedom of expression
- Florida domestic terrorism bill advances despite concerns | WUSF
- Citing Balance Issues, Catholic U Rejects Pro-Israel Group’s Speaker Requests
- The War on Student Speech
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/free-speech/2026/02/24/war-student-speech
- N.C. Community College Fires Professor for Kirk Comments
- NYC public law school to host event on Hamas tunnels as ‘resistance to colonization’
https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-public-law-school-to-host-event-on-hamas-tunnels-as-resistance-to-colonization/amp/ https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/02/cuny-law-hosting-lecture-framing-hamas-tunnels-as-anti-colonial-resistance/amp/
- After Kirk Comments, UCLA Fires DEI Director
- N.C. State Fires LGBTQ Pride Employee in Undercover Video
- 12 Arrested at Anti-ICE Protest Outside Columbia
- CUNY Trains Community in Constructive Dialogue
- CAIR Report on Islamophobia and Free Speech Rates Columbia U., CUNY as Most Hostile Campuses
- Is Union Power Growing in Mamdani’s New York? | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cuny-fired-four-union-power-zohran-mamdani/
- FAMU Says Censoring the Word ‘Black’ Was a Mistake
- In Bay Area, Felony Charges Against Student Protesters Prompt Free Speech Concerns | Bolts
- Judge limits government actions against students, scholars in free speech case
- Higher Ed Urged to ‘Stand Up’ to Government Attacks
- A How-To Guide for Handling Campus Speech Controversies
- Professor Reinstated After Being Fired For Charlie Kirk Post
- For Now, Judge Won’t Reinstate Kentucky Professor Calling for War on Israel
- Dunster House Resident Dean Gregory Davis Removed After Resurfaced Social Media Posts | News | The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/1/5/gregory-davis-removed/
- Clemson Settles With Professor Fired for Kirk Comments
- [CCNY] President’s Statement on January 8 Off-Campus Protest
https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/presidentsoffice/blog/statement-january-8-protest
- Amid Criticism From Lawmakers, U of Arkansas Rescinds Dean Offer
- Report: State Lawmakers Enacted a Record 21 Censorship Bills in 2025
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/curriculum/2026/01/15/report-state-lawmakers-enacted-21-censorship-bills-2025 https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-campuses-25-web-of-control/
- At Least 26 Faculty Members Faced Scrutiny for Charlie Kirk Comments. Here’s What Happened Next.
- I Counted Trump’s Censorship Attempts. Here’s What I Found.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/opinion/trump-first-amendment-dissent.html
- He Went on a Hunger Strike for Palestine. Did He ‘Misuse’ the Classroom?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/he-went-on-a-hunger-strike-for-palestine-did-he-misuse-the-classroom https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/policies/2301.html
- NYTimes: PEN America Elects New President at Fraught Time for Free Speech
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/arts/dinaw-mengestu-pen-america-new-president.html
- Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal | California | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/tenured-professor-fired-pro-palestinian-protests
- NYTimes: Judge Dismisses Harvard Antisemitism Lawsuit by a Former Student
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/harvard-antisemitism-lawsuit.html
- Khalil Sues for Information Regarding Government Use of Doxing Sites
https://insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/11/24/khalil-sues-info-government-use-doxing-sites
- A UC-Berkeley Protest of a Turning Point USA Event Has Now Prompted 2 Trump Investigations
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/a-uc-berkeley-protest-of-a-turning-point-usa-event-has-now-prompted-2-trump-investigations https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/11/26/ed-investigates-berkeley-over-protest-violence
- FAU Reinstates 2 Faculty on Leave for Charlie Kirk Comments
- NYTimes: A Student Publication at Harvard Echoed Hitler. Now It Has Been Suspended.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/harvard-salient-hitler-suspended-magazine.html
- FIRE Is Wrong. Raucous Protest Is Free Speech.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/fire-is-wrong-raucous-protest-is-free-speech
- UT Austin Blocks Grad Student Assembly Political Speech
- Amid Trump’s Assault on Free Speech, Advocates Stay Busy
- Two Champions of Academic Freedom Go to War – - The AAUP and FIRE are at it. Again.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/two-champions-of-academic-freedom-go-to-war
- Pepperdine Closes Exhibit Featuring “Overtly Political” Art
- Viewpoint Diversity Is a MAGA Plot
https://www.chronicle.com/article/viewpoint-diversity-is-a-maga-plot
- NYTimes: Dispute Over Indiana College Newspaper Draws Censorship Accusations
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/business/media/indiana-university-daily-student-newspaper.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/free-speech/2025/10/16/indiana-censors-newspaper-fires-adviser
- Indiana Daily Student Homecoming eEdition - Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025 by Indiana Daily Student - idsnews - Issuu
- Asst. professor sues Clemson over Charlie Kirk post firing | The State
https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article312369947.html
- UNC Professor Accused of Advocating Political Violence Reinstated
- Opinion | Who Will Clemson Censor Next?
- NYTimes: The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/opinion/charlie-kirk-jd-vance-cancel-culture.html
- NYTimes: She Was Fired for a Comment on Her Private Facebook Account
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/charlie-kirk-free-speech.html
- Professor Fired for “Inciting Violence” to Be Reinstated
- In Defense of Distasteful Faculty Speech (opinion)
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/09/29/defense-distasteful-faculty-speech-opinion
- NYTimes: When Silence Is the Only Logical Choice, Are We Really Free?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/opinion/charlie-kirk-media-truth-trump.html
- How Free Is Free Speech? | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/review-free-speech-books
- Conservative are targeting speech. More teachers may lose their jobs. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/09/20/conservatives-target-teachers-free-speech/
- NYTimes: The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/us/firing-educators-kirk-free-speech.html
- Professor in court fight over Charlie Kirk post is temporarily reinstated
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/25/charlie-kirk-shooting-professor-south-dakota/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/09/26/court-order-reinstates-sd-prof-fired-kirk-comments
- Staff Members Fired, Grad Student Punished for Cheering Charlie Kirk’s Death
- 6 More Faculty, Staff Removed for Kirk Comments
- Workers are getting fired, placed on leave over Charlie Kirk posts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/12/workers-fired-charlie-kirk-reaction-online/
- NYTimes: Right-Wing Activists Urge Followers to Expose Those Celebrating Kirk Killing
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/politics/charlie-kirk-shooting-firings-celebration.html
- Right-Wing Activists Are Targeting People for Allegedly Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Death
- MAGA’s Doxing War Over Charlie Kirk Is Already Going Off the Rails | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/200472/maga-doxxing-charlie-kirk-going-off-rails
- Doxing Campaign Endangers Faculty and Free Speech
- Texas State professor fired for comments at socialism meeting | The Texas Tribune
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/texas-state-university-professor-fired/
- A Tenured Professor Spoke Hypothetically About Overthrowing the Government. He Was Fired 3 Days Later.
- University of Tennessee looks to terminate faculty member over social media post | wbir.com
- Clemson U. Touted Free Speech After 3 Employees Posted About Charlie Kirk. Then It Reversed Course.
- Employees and Students at These Colleges Have Been Punished for Comments on Charlie Kirk’s Death
- Opinion | The Assassination That Broke Campus Free Speech
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-assassination-that-broke-campus-free-speech
- NYTimes: The Kirk Crackdown Is Underway
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/opinion/trump-charlie-kirk-crackdown.html https://www.csis.org/analysis/global-terrorism-threat-assessment-2024
- Some Conservatives Blame Higher Ed for Political Violence
- All of This Because of Political Speech
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/political-speech-antisemitism-universities-mccarthyism
- Kirk’s Slaying Prompts College Leaders to Speak Out
- Abbott Targets Students Who Allegedly Mocked Kirk’s Death
- McMahon Speaks Out About Kirk’s Death and Campus Culture
- NYTimes: The Dangers of the Charlie Kirk Aftermath
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/opinion/trump-vance-bondi-douglassfree-speech.html
- NYTimes: Trump Pressures Broadcasters Over Critical Coverage, Escalating Attack on Speech
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/us/politics/trump-fcc-licenses.html
- NYTimes: Trump Has Freedom of Speech. Do You?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/opinion/trump-freedom-of-speech-crackdown-kimmel.html
- NYTimes: We Can No Longer Tell Ourselves This Isn’t Really Happening
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/opinion/jimmy-kimmel-trump-media-government.html
- CUNY Colleges to Get Anti-Discrimination Coordinators
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/08/cuny-antisemitism-palestine-hochul-title-vi/
- Students Report Less Tolerance for Controversial Speakers
- A ‘Volatile Climate’ for Campus Speech Has Worsened Under Trump, New FIRE Report Says
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-volatile-climate-for-campus-speech-has-worsened-under-trump-new-fire-report-says https://rankings.thefire.org/
- Ohio State Restricts Decorations in Public Dorm Spaces
- FEMA employees put on leave after criticizing Trump administration in open letter
- NYTimes: A Critic of Universities Is Rallying to Defend Them in the Trump Era
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/arts/fire-freedom-expression-trump.html
- Ideology in the Classroom: How Faculty at US Universities Navigate Politics and Pedagogy Amid Federal Pressure Over Viewpoint Diversity and Antisemitism
https://scholarworks.brandeis.edu/esploro/outputs/report/9924494190801921
- College Employees in Kansas Can’t List Pronouns in Emails
- Texas just gutted free speech on college campuses. Is your state next?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/14/texas-campus-free-speech/
- To save themselves, universities must cultivate civic friendship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/30/universities-trump-survival-free-speech/
- Texas looks to enact restrictions on when and how students can protest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/20/texas-campus-speech-law-palestine-protests/
- Texas Governor Signs Bill to Limit Expressive Activity on Campuses
- Texas Governor Signs Law Giving Presidents Control of Faculty Senates
- NYTimes: We Watched Dozens of Graduation Speeches. Here’s What We Found.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/us/graduation-speeches-2025.html
- Mayor Adams signs executive order adopting antisemitism definition, urges Council to make it law
- The Trump administration’s big week of gaslighting and censorship
- NYTimes: A Student at Brown Channeled Elon Musk. Then He Got in Trouble.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/brown-university-newspaper-musk-doge.html
- With Comey questioning, the Trump administration again targets speech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/17/trump-freedom-of-speech-critics/
- College newspapers under pressure as immigration fears silence sources
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/17/college-newspapers-trump-international-students/
- Free speech is dead at the American university. Here’s who killed it.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/free-speech-american-universities-20250518.html
- Free Speech Expert Discusses Open Expression and Trump
- NYTimes: My Brush With Trump’s Thought Police
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/stiglitz-trump-dei.html
- NYU Withholds Diploma Due to Pro-Palestinian Commencement Speech
- NYTimes: Springsteen, in England, Blasts Trump Administration as ‘Treasonous’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/arts/music/bruce-springsteen-trump.html
Anti-woke/anti-DEI is simply racism
- The Rise and Recent Decline of Diversity in Higher Ed
- 31 Colleges Agree to End Partnerships With PhD Project
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/2026/02/20/31-colleges-agree-end-partnerships-phd-project https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/02/19/colleges-cut-ties-diversity-groups/ https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/trump-went-after-the-phd-project-now-31-campuses-have-agreed-to-sever-ties-with-it
- Kansas May Withhold Millions From Universities With ‘DEI-CRT’ in Gen Ed
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/2026/02/18/kansas-may-cut-millions-colleges-dei-gen-ed
- UVa to Trump: No Illegal DEI Here
https://www.chronicle.com/article/uva-to-trump-no-illegal-dei-here
- Diversity Hiring Faces a Reckoning Colleges looked past legal risks. Now they’re paying a price.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/diversity-hiring-faces-a-reckoning
- Virginia Democrats target military college’s funding after anti-DEI push
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/01/20/vmi-state-funding-confederacy-sexism/
- Education Dept. Drops Appeal of Court Order Blocking Anti-DEI Guidance
- Trump Is Allowing Some Anti-DEI Directives to Die. That Likely Won’t Matter for Colleges.
- DOJ Report Declares MSIs Unconstitutional
- Johns Hopkins U. Pares Back Diversity Programs, Limits Mentoring Efforts Aimed at Minority Students
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-higher-eds-dismantling-of-dei https://www.thebanner.com/education/higher-education/johns-hopkins-university-diversity-programs-2CQCQZSV2JAM3DVYADYEIWJSPA/
- After Suspension, U. of Alabama Alumni Offer to Fund Black-Culture and Women’s-Fashion Student Magazines
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-higher-eds-dismantling-of-dei
- NYTimes: U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/u-of-alabama-student-magazines-dei.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/free-speech/2025/12/03/alabama-ends-black-women-focused-student-magazines https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-university-shuts-down-2-campus-magazines-because-they-might-look-like-dei
- Are Diversity Essay Prompts Disappearing? Not Yet.
- Universities May Lose State Dept. Partnership Due to Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/2025/11/26/colleges-may-lose-state-dept-partnership-anti-dei-crusade https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/25/us-universities-cuts-dei-state-department
- Trump’s DEI Crackdown Closes 120 TRIO Programs
- 21 States, D.C. Ask Court to Reverse TRIO Grant Rejections
- These Republicans oppose DEI, but also cuts hitting Hispanic-serving colleges
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/10/30/hispanic-serving-institutions-republican-support/
- Under Anti-DEI Pressure, Ohio State Limits Conference Funds
- Mike Gavin Resigns to Lead DEI Defense Coalition
- NYTimes: Duke Was Paring Back Diversity Programs. Trump Targeted It Anyway.
- NYTimes Gift Article: The Grand Strategy Behind Trump’s Crackdown on Academia
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/opinion/trump-academia-victim-may-mailman.html
- Federal District Judge Rules Against Trump’s Anti-DEI Orders
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/18/federal-district-judge-rules-against-trumps-anti-dei-orders https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/2025/07/30/doj-declares-slew-dei-practices-unlawful-memo
- Colleges Rushed to Comply With Trump’s Anti-DEI Guidance. A Judge Just Struck It Down. Now What?
- NYTimes: In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/trump-diversity-black-americans.html
- Mizzou Calls Black 2 Class Event Example of “Discrimination”
- Western Kentucky U. Reviews Syllabi to Ensure ‘Alternative Viewpoints’ Due to Anti-DEI Law
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-higher-eds-dismantling-of-dei
- Justice Department Declares DEI Unlawful
- The Manhattan Statement on Higher Education
https://manhattan.institute/article/the-manhattan-statement-on-higher-education
- Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
- NIH cancels sickle cell research grant, citing DEI, doctor says – NBC4 Washington
- Colleges, companies and philanthropic groups are retooling millions of dollars in scholarships that for years supported minority students
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/anti-dei-minority-scholarships-a721ba1b
- NYTimes: How Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts Are Hurting Rural, White Americans Too
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/trump-science-nih-grants-dei-cuts.html
- NYTimes: Trump Says He Wants to Fund More Trade Schools. Just Not These.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/business/job-corps-trump-trade-schools.html
- Trump DEI Purge Made Black Women in Federal Jobs an “Easy Target” — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-black-women-minorities-careers-jobs-dismissed
- NYTimes: How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/us/politics/trump-black-history-federal-holidays.html
- HBCUs Reel as Trump Cuts Black-Focused Grants: ‘This Is Our Existence’
- NYTimes: Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/university-of-virginia-president-trump.html https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda
- NYTimes: How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/magazine/trump-civil-rights-law-discrimination.html
- NYTimes: Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opinion/black-history-trump.html
- Opinion | Here are the people Trump is trying to delete
- NYTimes: Times Sq. Sculpture Prompts Racist Backlash. To Some, That’s the Point.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/nyregion/times-square-black-woman-statue.html
- NYTimes: Justice Dept. to Use False Claims Act to Pursue Institutions Over Diversity Efforts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/politics/false-claims-act-dei-harvard.html
ICE
- Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says
https://gizmodo.com/reddit-meta-and-google-voluntarily-gave-dhs-info-of-anti-ice-users-report-says-2000722279 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html
- Campus Reform | Hunter College president says ICE barred from campus without legal order
Title VI
- How Leo Terrell Is Helping Trump “Root Out” Antisemitism on College Campuses — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/leo-terrell-universities-lawsuits-antisemitism
- Why the Unlikely Leader of Trump’s Antisemitism Task Force May Be the Perfect Man for the Job
Visas
- Florida Board Approves Ban on H-1B Visas
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/03/03/florida-board-approves-ban-h-1b-visas
- Federal Agents ‘Made Misrepresentations’ to Enter Columbia Dorm and Detain Student, University Says
- (SBU) Removal of Yunseo Chung and Mahmoud Khalil, both U.S. LPRs, under Section 237(a)(4)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.315.18.pdf
- Two States Are Pausing H-1B Hiring at Public Universities. Here’s What That Could Mean.
- Florida Moves Toward Banning H-1B Visa Hires
- Florida Proposes Banning H-1B Visa Hires Across All Public Universities
- Trump Admin. Touts 8,000 Student Visas Revoked
- University, ICE Clash Over Details of Student’s Arrest
- NYTimes: New International Student Enrollments Plummeted This Fall, Survey Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/international-students-enrollment-decrease.html https://insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/11/17/fewer-international-students-came-us-fall https://www.chronicle.com/article/international-students-were-already-shunning-u-s-colleges-before-trump-new-data-show
- ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES and CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THEUNITED STATES OF AMERICA join forces to sue over H1-B visa changes
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26197067-chamberaauamendcomp102425/
- DeSantis to Fla. Universities: Pull the Plug on H-1B Workers
- International Student Arrivals Drop 19%
- AAUP, Other Unions Sue Trump Admin Over H-1B Fee
- Judge excoriates Trump in blistering decision calling efforts to deport pro-Palestinian academics illegal
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/judge-young-ruling-trump-deportation-free-speech-00588114 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf https://www.chronicle.com/article/students-and-scholars-faced-deportation-for-pro-palestinian-activism-a-judge-says-that-was-illegal
- U.S. assigned a specialized immigration team to target campus protesters
Are CUNY visa applicants being told no?
Trump administration to add 100 ,000 fee for H-1B visas - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h1b-visa-bill-100000-fee/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/politics/trump-h-1b-visas-fee.html https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-trumps-100-000-fee-for-skilled-worker-visas-could-mean-for-higher-ed
- International-student enrollment is sagging at many U.S. universities, particularly at the master’s level
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/international-student-enrollment-decline-college-ad13f943 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/09/23/international-enrollment-down-small-regional
- Even as Classes Begin, Some Foreign Students Are Still in Visa Limbo
- Supporting Our Students: Part Four
https://www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunyufs/2025/09/08/supporting-our-students-part-four/
- DOJ Sues Illinois Over In-State Tuition for Noncitizens
- After Texas relents, Trump seeks to widen ban on in-state tuition for noncitizens
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/25/in-state-tuition-undocumented-students-texas/
- Visa Delays Persist, Causing Some Students to Defer to Spring
- rump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students
- NYTimes: International Student Enrollments Stay Steady at Columbia and Princeton
- Many U.S. Colleges May Close Without Immigrants And International Students, Report Finds
- Trump administration has revoked 6,000 student visas, official says - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/19/student-visas-revoked-6000-trump/
- NYTimes: Trump’s Tactics Mean Many International Students Won’t Make It to Campus
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/trump-visa-vetting-international-students.html
- More Barriers on the Horizon for International Students
- Trump “Chipping Away” at DACA and Other Protections
- This new 250 visa fee applies to international student visas too.
- A Trial Over Campus Protest Ends with Conflicting Views of Foreign Students’ Free-Speech Rights
- NYTimes: Trump’s Student Arrests, and the Lawsuit Fighting Them, Tread New Ground
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/politics/trump-student-arrests-immigration-trial.html
- NYTimes: State Dept. Opens Investigation Into Harvard’s Use of International Visas
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/politics/state-department-trump-harvard.html
- State Department official defends canceling visas of pro-Palestinian academics - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/state-official-testimony-trump-deportations-00449634 https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-v-rubio
- Chinese Students’ Vulnerable Status Has a History — and an Impact on the Future
- How many international students attend NY colleges? Here’s what to know
- State Department pauses or delays interviews and approvals for student and exchange visitor visas
- State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/18/student-visas-social-media-vetting-state-department/ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/18/social-media-screening-student-visas-00413160 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/student-visa-applications.html
- DOJ Targets In-State Tuition for Noncitizens in Kentucky as Texas Students Fight Back
- NYTimes: Chinese Students Reconsider the U.S. as Republicans Threaten Their Visas
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/politics/trump-chinese-students-visas.html
- Attacks on Chinese Students Could Wreak Havoc on Higher Ed
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/05/30/trump-targets-chinese-students-harsh-blow-higher https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-across-u-s-fear-chill-on-enrollments-of-foreign-students
- Trump administration claims Chinese students ‘exploit’ U.S. universities
- What the New Travel Ban Means for Higher Ed
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-the-new-travel-ban-means-for-higher-ed
- The U.S. has more than 1 million foreign students. Here’s who they are.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/25/international-students-harvard-trump/
- Trump team orders stop to new student visa interviews, as it weighs expanding social media vetting
- New Visa Policies Put America First, Not China - United States Department of State
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/05/new-visa-policies-put-america-first-not-china/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/28/chinese-visas-applicants-trump-rubio/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/china-student-visas-revoke.html https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/state-department-marco-rubio-chinese-student-visas-fc8b7828
- NYTimes: Trump Says Harvard Should Limit Acceptance of International Students
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html
- Colleges Across U.S. Fear Chill on Enrollments of Foreign Students
https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-across-u-s-fear-chill-on-enrollments-of-foreign-students
- Here’s how much international students contribute to the U.S. economy
- Some foreign students fear speaking out as visa cancellations rise
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/12/international-students-visas-revoke-fear/
- NYTimes: A Columbia Activist Sought Middle Ground on Gaza. The U.S. Detained Him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/nyregion/columbia-activist-mahdawi-ice-palestinian.html
NIH
- NYTimes: ‘The Power of Science to Solve Problems Is Almost Limitless’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/opinion/jay-bhattacharya-nih.html
NSF
- Under Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year history | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/under-trump-nsf-faces-worst-crisis-its-75-year-history
Funding cuts
- NYTimes: The Human Cost of Trump’s War on Science
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/opinion/doge-hiv-funding.html
- Congress, Courts Stymie Trump’s Effort to Cap Research Costs
- How Congress’s Budget Could Hamper Trump ED Agenda
- US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-00088-9/index.html
- NYTimes: Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts-congress.html
- US Senate passes bill to boost federal science spending after White House sought major cuts | Reuters
- Trump’s college agenda may have a lasting impact on research, culture
- ED Panel Signs Off on New Earnings Test
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2026/01/09/ed-panel-signs-new-earnings-test https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/an-expansive-accountability-test-based-on-grads-salaries-moves-forward
- Researchers May Be Forced to Rely on a Court You’ve Never Heard Of
- New Model Legislation Aims to Curb ‘Unserious’ Research in Non-STEM Fields
https://www.chronicle.com/article/new-model-legislation-aims-to-curb-unserious-research-in-non-stem-fields https://archive.is/20251210183932/https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/12/09/proposed-model-bill-would-change-college-tenure-teaching – research/
- NYTimes: The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/02/upshot/trump-science-funding-cuts.html
- As New Federal Research Funding Resumes, China May Already Be Outspending U.S.
- NYTimes: Justice Dept. Sues California Over College Benefits for Undocumented Students
- Science: Total NSF, NIH Funding Didn’t Plunge in Fiscal 2025
- Billions of State and Institutional Aid Dollars Go to High-Income Students
- Berkeley Law Dean Urges Supreme Court to Be ‘Guardrail of Our Democracy’
- Trump Research Funding Plans: Penalize ‘Repeat Players,’ Reward Compact Signers
- SUNY Has Lost 32 M Due to Federal Cuts
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/21/suny-has-lost-32m-due-federal-cuts
- In Fourth Week, Federal Shutdown Increasingly Hinders Higher Ed
- Survey: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump’s Higher Ed Cuts
- CSU Campuses Reel From Blow to HSI Funding
- Community colleges are losing millions in funding under Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/10/14/trump-cuts-community-college-funding/
- Trump May Attempt to Tie Grant Allocation to Capitulation
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/09/30/trump-may-attempt-tie-grant-allocation-capitulation https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/09/28/trump-university-research-grants-funding-preference/
- White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-universities-compact-federal-funds-agreement-df158493 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/trump-college-funding.html https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Compact-for-Academic-Excellence-in-Higher-Education-10.1.pdf https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/10/02/white-house-floats-compact-preferential https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-college-compact-funding-reactions-79f45f91 https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/03/trump-administration-college-funding-compact/ https://www.chronicle.com/article/trumps-proposed-compact-asks-colleges-to-show-theyre-pursuing-federal-priorities
- Gov. Newsom threatens to withhold billions from California colleges that sign Trump’s ‘compact’
https://www.kcra.com/article/gov-newsom-threatens-to-withhold-billions-from-california-colleges-that-sign-trumps-compact/68366652 https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-trump-education-funding-21081560.php
- Universities Must Reject Trump Admin “Loyalty Oath” Compacts | AAUP
https://www.aaup.org/news/universities-must-reject-trump-admin-loyalty-oath-compacts
- A Defining Choice for Higher Ed (opinion)
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/10/03/defining-choice-higher-ed-opinion
- NYTimes: Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/trump-universities-compact-funding.html
- NYTimes: Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/opinion/trump-compact-universities-constitution.html
- Opinion | Autocracy Is Eroding Higher Education
https://www.chronicle.com/article/autocracy-is-eroding-higher-education
- ED Reallocates MSI Funding to HBCUs, Tribal Colleges
- Range of Reasons for Latest Job and Program Cuts
- The State of Independent Technology Research 2025
https://independenttechresearch.org/citr-report-2025/ https://independenttechresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-State-of-Independent-Technology-Research-Power-in-Numbers.pdf
- DOJ Deems Definition of HSIs Unconstitutional, Won’t Defend
- Trump’s Funding Freezes Against Universities in 5 Charts
- Trump budget officials claim sweeping spending power from Congress, records show
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/19/trump-budget-congress-impoundment/
- We deny the government’s motion
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26070574-ucresearcherstayca9082125/
- New executive order puts all grants under political control - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/08/13/trump-order-puts-politics-above-peer-review
- NYTimes: Judge Declines to Order Trump Administration to Restore Research Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/nyregion/nsf-trump-stem-research-cuts.html
- Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking – The White House
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/improving-oversight-of-federal-grantmaking/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/restoring-gold-standard-science/
- Trump Puts Political Appointees in Charge of Federal Grant Decisions
- As Trump Upends Funding for Research, These Scholars Turn to GoFundMe
- By cutting science, the Defense Department is eating its seed corn
- Senate Appropriators Reject Trump’s Deep Education Cuts
- Inside the powerful task force spearheading Trump’s assault on colleges, DEI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/18/antisemitism-task-force-dei-universities-trump/
- NYTimes: Fired D.E.I. Administrator Sues the University of Michigan
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/university-michigan-lawsuit-dei-firing-rachel-dawson.html
- Higher-Ed Associations Pitch an Alternative to Trump’s Cap on Research Funding
- A Lost Generation of Researchers
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-lost-generation-of-researchers
- What Does It Cost to Run a Lab? Cancer research is expensive. Here are the price tags.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-does-it-cost-to-run-a-lab
- DOGE loses control over government grants website, freeing up billions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/27/doge-loses-control-federal-grants/
- PSC, higher-ed unions slam federal research funding cuts
https://thechiefleader.com/stories/psc-higher-ed-unions-slam-federal-research-funding-cuts,54668
- How Universities Would Overhaul Research Funding
- Research Grants Increasingly Require Compliance With Trump’s Orders. Here’s How Colleges Are Responding.
- How Senate Republicans Want to Hold Colleges Accountable
- Congressional Republicans Want to End Grad PLUS Loans. How Might It Affect Your Campus?
- CUNY advocates push for 100 M to bridge funding gap and enhance student services
- Scientific Community Fears for Future of STEM Workforce Amid NSF Overhaul
- NYTimes: White House Unveils New Details of Stark Budget Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/white-house-budget-trump.html
- New Details of Trump’s Budget Cuts Alarm Researchers
- Trump Wants Grant Makers to Become Political Appointees
CUNY to provide bridge funding for those who have lost grants
NYTimes: Funding Cuts Are a ‘Gut Punch’ for STEM Education Researchers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/science/trump-nsf-stem-education.html
- NYTimes: Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/22/upshot/nsf-grants-trump-cuts.html
‘Every Revenue Source Is at Risk’: Under Trump, Research Universities Are Cutting Back
Republicans’ Plan to Tax Higher Ed and Slash Funding Advances in Congress
https://www.chronicle.com/article/republicans-plan-to-tax-higher-ed-and-slash-funding-advances-in-congress https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Letter-House-Reconciliation-052125.pdf
- NYTimes: Republicans Harness Tax Code to Punish Trump’s Political Nemeses
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/republicans-taxes-trump-opponents.html
- Can Scientific Research Survive Without Federal Funding?
- Few support punitive funding cuts to colleges and universities
https://apnorc.org/projects/few-support-punitive-funding-cuts-to-colleges-and-universities/
- NYTimes: 9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/federally-funded-science-breakthroughs.html
- NYTimes: Where Federal Dollars Flow to Universities Around the Country
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/30/us/university-funding-research.html
- Documenting Trump’s ‘Arbitrary’ Cuts to Science
- Trump Administration Cancels 1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health (VAC)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/trump-mental-health-grants.html
- TRIO on the Chopping Block
- Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2
- U.S. attorney for D.C. accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ threatens nonprofit status
- Trump’s attacks on elite schools like Harvard and Columbia—using cuts to federal funding as a lever—are part of a larger campaign
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-college-university-fight-ae69a3e1
- Trump order restricting foreign gifts to colleges
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/trump-executive-order-college-foreign-funding-00306463
- Ex-NIH Director Says Trump Silenced Him, Others
- Another 700 NSF Grants Cut
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/04/29/another-700-nsf-grants-cut
- National Science Foundation eliminates hundreds of grants day after director resigns
- NYTimes: Mellon Foundation Announces 15 Million for Humanities Councils
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/arts/mellon-foundation-humanities-endowment.html
- ACLS, AHA, and MLA File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities - ACLS
- Executive Order Targets Undocumented Students’ In-State Tuition
Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices for April 18, 2025
Updates on NSF Priorities | NSF - National Science Foundation
https://www.nsf.gov/updates-on-priorities
- National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/science/trump-national-science-foundation-grants.html
- NSF Director Resigns
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/04/25/nsf-director-panchanathan-resigns
- Trump is destroying 100 years of competitive advantage in 100 days
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/25/us-losing-competitive-edge-science/
- CUNY’s Research on Vaccine Misinformation Halted by Trump Administration | THE CITY — NYC News
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/24/cuny-layoffs-vaccine-research-funding-cuts-misinformation-trump/
- Florida’s Own DOGE Reviews Faculty Research, Grants
- DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/11/doge-controls-federal-grant-postings/
- Trump administration to pull Maine K-12 funding over trans athletes dispute
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/11/maine-education-trump-janet-mills/
- Energy Department reduces funding for grants to colleges and universities
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/12/trump-cuts-department-of-energy/
- NYTimes: What Is Actually the Point of Treating the N.I.H. Like This?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/opinion/nih-scientists-staffing-cuts.html
- NIH Funding Opportunities (this week, from MP)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndexMobile.cfm
- These 77 Colleges Have the Most to Lose From Trump’s Cuts
https://www.chronicle.com/article/these-77-colleges-have-the-most-to-lose-from-trumps-cuts
- NYTimes: What to Know as Trump Freezes Federal Funds for Harvard and Other Universities
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/trump-university-funding-harvard.html
- The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.
- We have laws in this country
- NYTimes: Leading Nutrition Scientist Departs N.I.H., Citing Censorship
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/well/kevin-hall-nutrition-retirement-nih-censorship-rfk-maha.html
- Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump health program cuts - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/16/hhs-budget-cut-trump/
- What to Know About Trump’s Funding Threats to Colleges
- NYTimes: Judge Permanently Bars N.I.H. From Limiting Medical Research Funding
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/nih-medical-research-funding.html
- NYTimes: The N.E.H. Does What Republicans Always Wanted. DOGE Slashed It Anyway.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/humanities-cuts-tennessee-neh-doge.html
- Staff cuts begin at NEH, threatening humanities programs across U.S.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/04/10/neh-staff-cuts-reduction-in-force/
- Trump Presents Harvard With an Ultimatum for Federal Funds
- NYTimes: Columbia’s Former Leader Faced Contentious Interview After Resigning
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/nyregion/columbia-president-armstrong-federal-deposition.html
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Freezes 1 Billion for Cornell and 790 Million for Northwestern, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/cornell-northwestern-university-funds-trump.html https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-team-to-freeze-nearly-2-billion-at-cornell-and-northwestern-universities-2e13a88a
- NYTimes: Trump Has Targeted These Universities. Why?
https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-university-college.html
- Through emails and social media, colleges discover federal funds are frozen
- NSF, NIH Slash Support for Early-Career Scientists
- NIH Freezes Millions More in Funding for Columbia
NIH
- NIH Will No Longer Recognize Union of Early-Career Researchers
- NYTimes: Appeals Court Upholds Prohibition on Trump’s Medical Research Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/trump-nih-grant-cuts-court.html
- NIH grant policy hurt funding chances for early-career scientists | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/nih-early-career-researchers-grant-success-rate-falls/
- After losing NIH support, cancer researcher struggles to keep lab open : Shots - Health News : NPR
- Hundreds of Cancer, Infectious Disease Trials Disrupted by NIH Cuts
- Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/07/surgeons-general-rfk-jr-robert-kennedy/
- How to navigate the impact of manipulation and removal of federal data: Expert advice, reporting tips and resources
- Trump slashed funding for universities that helped create these vital drugs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2025/trump-university-research-medicine/
- NIH is spending its grant money, but leaving thousands of projects unfunded - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/09/26/nih-funding-research-grants/
- Researchers Map Out Possible Impacts of a Smaller NIH
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/09/30/researchers-map-out-possible-impacts-smaller-nih https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb1564
- Scientific Publishing Industry Faces Federal Scrutiny
- NIH Fires 4 Directors After Putting Them on Leave
- NIH Now On Track to Spend Its Full Budget by Sept. 30
- NYTimes: Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/magazine/cancer-research-grants-funds-trump.html
- NYTimes: California’s 23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/california-scientific-research-bond.html
- Former NIH Leaders Allege Retaliation for Whistleblowing
- NIH Cuts Mean Job Losses in College Towns
- HHS Lawyer: NIH Shouldn’t Re-Terminate Grants
- Opinion | Trump Is Defunding Medical Research. It Could Cost You Your Life. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opinion/trump-defunding-medical-research.html
- Former NIH chief calls research cuts “careless” and “heartless” | AAMC
https://www.aamc.org/news/former-nih-chief-calls-research-cuts-careless-and-heartless
- SCOTUS Ruling Has “Bleak Implications” for Researchers
- NIH Publisher Fee Cap Plan ‘Not Comprehensive Enough,’ Critics Say
- NIH Director Orders Review of All Current, Planned Research
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Updates: Supreme Court Rules N.I.H. Grants for Disfavored Research Can Be Cut
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/21/us/trump-news
- SCOTUS Says NIH Doesn’t Have to Restore Canceled Grants
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/08/21/scotus-says-nih-doesnt-have-restore-canceled https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda
- NIH Guide: Weekly Index for August 15, 2025
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndexMobile.cfm
- Gender Data Would Be Off-Limits Under Proposed NIH Policy
https://www.chronicle.com/article/gender-data-would-be-off-limits-under-proposed-nih-policy
- Trump Administration Illegally Withheld N.I.H. Funding, Watchdog Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/trump-gao-nih-funding.html
- How Many Times Can Science Funding Be Canceled?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/08/nih-funding-whiplash/683773/
- Lawsuit Over NIH Grant Funding Heads to Supreme Court
- The Trump administration has put a halt on billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health, setting up a battle with lawmakers
- Trump administration halts, then releases, NIH research funding
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/29/trump-administration-nih-funding/
- NIH director says cuts aim to reduce ‘ideological research,’ focus on health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/07/29/nih-trump-bhattacharya-budget/
- Abrupt Pause, Unpause of Grants Doesn’t End NIH Funding Concerns
- NYTimes: How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/opinion/hhs-cuts-harming-american-health.html https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/A-MESSAGE-OF-CONCERN-FROM-THE-NATIONS-HEALTH-PROFESSIONALS.pdf
- Trump’s second presidency begins: evaluating effects on the US health system - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X25001838
- NIH Plans to Cap Publisher Fees, Dilute ‘Scientific Elite’
- Stalled funding, canceled grants: How the NIH crisis is affecting Duke - The Chronicle
- The Scientific Research Lost Amid the Trump Administration’s NIH Cuts — ProPublica
https://projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-research-lost-trump/
- tracking site
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda#research
- The Scientific Research Lost Amid the Trump Administration’s NIH Cuts — ProPublica
https://projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-research-lost-trump/
- Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Despite Court Order — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nih-cuts-transgender-research-grants
- Judge Rejects Trump’s ‘Appalling’ NIH LGBTQ, Race Grant Cuts
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/judge-clashes-with-trump-justice-department-over-nih-grant-cuts https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2025/06/16/nih-grants-ordered-restored https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/16/us/trump-news
- NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts | AP News
- New HHS document details deep NIH cuts as part of Trump budget request
- NYTimes: The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/health/trump-cuts-nih-grants-research.html
- Trump Cuts Off Budding CUNY Scientists From Mentorship and Aid
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/14/cuny-urise-science-research-nih-trump/
NSF
- NSF Returning Fellowship Applications With Little Explanation
- NSF Lowers Grant Review Requirements, NIH Hunts for Phrases
- Congress Shows Resistance to Trump’s Plan to Slash Science Budgets
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/07/21/congress-shows-resistance-trumps-science-budget https://www.chronicle.com/article/trump-proposed-slashing-the-national-science-foundations-budget-a-key-senate-committee-just-refused
- Federal Grant Cuts Don’t Spare Red States, New Report Shows
- House Appropriators Propose 23% Cut to NSF
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/07/15/house-appropriators-propose-23-cut-nsf
- Senate Appropriators Reject Trump’s NSF Cuts
- NSF Indirect Cost Cap Unlawful, Judge Rules
- Trump Administration Ousts National Science Foundation from Headquarters Building
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-administration-ousts-national-science-foundation-from-headquarters/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/25/housing-hud-relocation/
- Trump is undermining U.S. science. Here’s why that’s dangerous.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/18/trump-science-attacks-internet/
- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FY 2026 Budget Request to Congress
https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF-FY26-CJ-Entire-Rollup.pdf
- New York sues National Science Foundation over research funding restrictions
- NSF terminates huge number of grants and stops awarding new ones
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01513-1
- Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress | TIME
https://time.com/7285045/resigning-national-science-foundation-library-congress/
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-online-misinformation-grants.html
- Under Trump, National Science Foundation Cuts Off All Funding to Scientists | Scientific American
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2
- Trump Halts Grants, Caps Indirect Costs at the National Science Foundation
- Universities Sue NSF Over Indirect Research Cost Policy
- Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS
NEH
- NEH Pours Millions Into Conservative-Aligned Projects
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/2026/01/20/neh-pours-millions-fehe-network-unc-civic-school-more https://www.chronicle.com/article/gops-civics-education-push-gets-boost-with-millions-from-trumps-neh
- White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/10/01/national-council-on-the-humanities-fired-white-house/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/02/most-humanities-advisory-council-fired
- NEH grant to fight antisemitism is largest ever, signaling Trump-era shift
- NYTimes: Humanities Endowment Funds Trump’s Priorities After Ending Old Grants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/arts/national-endowment-for-the-humanities-trump-grants.html
- Federal Judge Blocks Cancellation of NEH Grants
- Will federal funding cuts spell the end for history documentaries?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/05/20/neh-grants-canceled-history-documentaries/
- NEH Announces Grant Opportunity to Create Statues of Iconic Americans for the National Garden of American Heroes | National Endowment for the Humanities
- The NIH Is Requiring Grantees to Follow Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order
- Lawsuit Against Humanities Endowment Offers Details on DOGE - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/arts/humanities-endowment-doge-grants.html
- Trump proposes eliminating the NEA and NEH as arts grants are canceled
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/05/03/trump-budget-nea-neh-eliminate/
- NYTimes: The National Endowment for the Arts Begins Terminating Grants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/arts/national-endowment-for-the-arts-grants.html
- Guidance from MAA (https://www.medievalacademy.org/; thanks EST for sharing)
DOE
- Again Defying Trump, Congress Proposes Increasing NIH Budget, Maintaining ED
- Education Department Announces Key Priorities Through Grant Fund
- ED’s ‘Special Projects’ Grants Spark Concern Over Congressional Intent
- NYTimes: Judge Rebukes Justice Dept. Over Efforts to Obtain Confidential Patient Details
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/justice-dept-transgender-patients.html
- Higher Ed May Be in Trouble if the Government Is Shut Down for Much Longer
- With shutdown cuts, Trump moves closer to eliminating Education Department
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/18/trump-education-department-cuts/
- Trump Gutted the Institute of Education Sciences. Its Renewal Is in Doubt.
- Education Department Ends Grant Funding Worth 350 Million for Minority-Serving Colleges
- NYTimes: Trump Redirects Millions to Historically Black Colleges, Charter Schools
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/hbcus-trump-administration-funding.html
- Education Dept. Halts Funds to Programs for Deafblind Students Over DEI Concerns — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-students-education-deaf-blind-grant-funding
- ED Rule-Making Agenda Includes Accreditation, Title VI
- McMahon to Higher Ed Leaders: Join Us to ‘Make Higher Ed Great Again’
- Trump Administration Takes Next Step in Dismantling ED
- Education Department ends some aid aimed at minority college students
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/09/10/trump-grants-minority-students-college/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/09/11/education-department-moves-end-msi-programs https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/us/politics/linda-mcmahon-federal-grants-colleges-universities.html
- Federal Grants for Area Studies and Foreign Language at Risk
- Dems Claim ED Is Making It Harder for Students to File Financial Aid Complaints
- Agencies Share New Guidance on Foreign Threats at U.S. Colleges
- Federal investigations target college aid to immigrants and minorities - The Washington Post
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court Clears Way for Dismantling of Education Department
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/14/us/trump-news https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/14/supreme-court-education-department-/ https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/supreme-court-ruling-trump-education-department-workers-a2baa879
- The Education Department Got a Green Light to Shrink. Here Are 3 Questions About What’s Next.
- Education Department Postpones NACIQI Summer Meeting
- Florida Board of Governors to Vote on New Accreditor
- The Education Department is paying us millions not to work
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/23/education-department-layoffs-doge-afge/
- Nearly two million student loan borrowers are at risk of having their wages garnished this summer
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/student-loan-wage-garnishment-07fc4d2a https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/financial-aid/2025/06/24/federal-cuts-could-lead-reduced-financial-aid-offers
- McMahon Plays Defense on the Hill
- Judge blocks Trump bid to dismantle Department of Education
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/22/education-department-court-ruling-firings-00365170 https://apnews.com/article/education-department-shut-down-layoffs-576eef90c30fdaeb660f7f66644bad10 https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/22/education-department-fired-federal-workers-reinstated/
- Trump Nominates Iowa Regent to be Assistant Secretary of Postsecondary Ed
HHS
- HHS Ends Minority Biomedical Research Support Program
EPA
- E.P.A. Employees Are Invited to Adopt Soon-to-Be Homeless Lab Rats - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/climate/epa-lab-rat-zebra-fish-adoption.html
DOD
- Trump admin curtails colleges’ defense research
https://statements.cornell.edu/2025/20250408-federal-research-funding.cfm
Fulbright
- Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/fulbright-board-resign-trump.html https://substack.com/inbox/post/165673358
- Fulbright proposals screened for mentions of race, gender, and climate
https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/latitudes/2025-06-04
- For Fulbright Applicants, a DEI Disqualifier
NEA
- Trump Cancels Federal Research Grants. What Are the Consequences?
House bills
- Congress Could Make Paying for College Even More Complicated
- Significant Endowment Tax Increase Looms
- Here’s What Republicans’ Proposed College-Endowment Tax Could Look Like
- Republicans eye major expansion of college endowment tax
- GOP proposes five-fold increase in tax on college endowments
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/12/gop-college-endowment-tax/
- ACE’s summary of “STUDENT SUCCESS AND TAXPAYER SAVINGS PLAN” that moves to the House Budget Committee (thanks CMR)
https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Summary-Student-Success-Taxpayer-Savings-Plan.pdf
Executive orders
- Trump DEI policies threaten millions in scholarships raised by Black doctors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/13/black-doctors-scholarship-ohio/
Research funding
- Bridge the gap’: After federal grant freeze, CUNY union seeks city funding lifeline to continue research | amNewYork
https://www.amny.com/education/federal-grant-freeze-cuny-union-funding/
- CUNY warns 17 M in research grants at risk after Trump stop-work orders
DOGE
- The hidden ways Trump, DOGE are shutting down parts of the U.S. government
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/11/trump-government-operations-halt-funding-cuts/
Proposed executive budget
- What Trump’s Proposed Budget Cuts Mean for Education, Research (aims to cut at least 163 billion)
Federal Agencies
- Trump Administration Withholds Millions for TRIO Programs
- Commerce Secretary Says He Wants Half of University Patent Money
DoD
- NYTimes: Pentagon to Cut Ties With Top Universities and Think Tanks
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/pentagon-universities-think-tanks.html https://insidehighered.com/news/admissions/graduate/2026/03/06/hegseth-waging-war-colleges-his-targets-are-unclear
DOE/OCR
- NYTimes: Justice Department Sues University of California Over Antisemitism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/us/justice-department-ucla-lawsuit.html
- The Trump Administration’s Unconstitutional Crusade Against Civil Rights
- Trump administration investigating reports Tufts shared student voting data
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/02/05/tufts-university-election-investigation/
- Education Dept. Tells Universities Not to Use Student Voting Data
- Education Dept. Accuses San José State of Violating Title IX
- Report: Education Department Opens Fewer Sexual Violence Investigations
- Trump’s Education Department is Ignoring Discrimination Against Black Students — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-civil-rights-racial-harassment
- NYTimes: Cooper Union Settles Jewish Students’ Suit and Alters Protest Policies
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/nyregion/cooper-union-jewish-students-lawsuit-antisemitism.html
- Pomona College, UC Settle Antisemitism Allegations
- Education Dept. Wants to Begin and End Workforce Pell This Week
- Education Dept. Labels Hundreds of Colleges as ‘Lower Earnings’
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2025/12/09/ed-designates-23-colleges-lower-earnings https://studentaid.gov/data-center/school/earnings https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/nearly-one-fourth-of-colleges-will-come-with-a-warning-when-students-apply-for-financial-aid
- Fate of Accountability for Undergraduate Certificates Likely to Loom Over ED Talks
- Warren Requests Investigation into ED’s Dismantling
- McMahon Defends Dismantling ED to Department Staff
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/11/19/mcmahon-says-ed-agreements-are-temporary https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/trump-administration-continues-efforts-to-dismantle-the-education-department
- DOE Proposal excludes public health degrees from “professional degree” definition
- Under McMahon, ED Is Diminished but Not Dead, Experts Say
- Trump’s Deportation Campaign Raises FAFSA Privacy Concerns
- Trump Fires More Education Dept. Employees
- Trump’s Layoffs Gut Office of Postsecondary Ed
- White House Guts Education Department With More Layoffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/politics/trump-education-department-federal-layoffs.html
- Trump Officials Reportedly Discussing Selling Off Student Loans
- OCR Can Move Forward With RIFs, Appeals Court Says
- The Ed Department Hasn’t Even Begun to Fight (opinion)
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/09/22/ed-department-hasnt-even-begun-fight-opinion
- ED Wants Grants to Advance “Patriotic Education”
- Provosts Agree Antisemitism on Campus Is a Problem
- How Trump is using civil rights laws to bring schools to heel : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/04/nx-s1-5500262/trump-civil-rights-schools-students
- Under Trump, the Education Dept. has flipped its civil rights mission
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/18/trump-education-department-civil-rights/
- NYTimes: Trump Amps Up an Obama Strategy to Crack Down on Colleges
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/politics/trump-universities-title-ix-vi-obama.html
- Court Filing Sheds Light on Civil Rights Complaints Under Trump
- Colleges Can’t Trust the Federal Government. What Now?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-cant-trust-the-federal-government-what-now
Government shutdown
- Federal Government Shutdown: Impact on Psychology and What You Need to Know
HHS
- HHS Looks to Block Harvard From Federal Funds
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/09/29/hhs-looks-block-harvard-federal-funds https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/trump-administration-harvard-research-grants.html https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-debarment-federal-funds-32023931
- The Other Office for Civil Rights
OMB
- Withheld Adult Education Funds Worry Community Colleges
State actions
- Tennessee Lawsuit Puts HSIs’ Fate on the Line
- Funding for Hispanic-Serving Institutions Is Discriminatory and Unconstitutional, Lawsuit Argues
- New state laws target job protections for college professors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/06/18/tenure-college-faculty-republican-challenges/ https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/
- Citing Ohio’s SB 1, College Refuses to Sign Union Contract
Institutional assaults
- Can Ted Mitchell Marshal Higher Ed Against Trump?
- At Annual ACE Meeting, a Call to Uphold Higher Ed’s Mission
- Trump’s university settlements and what he wants to accomplish : NPR
- NYTimes: The Havoc That One Disgruntled Student Can Wreak on a University
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/conservative-campus-politics.html
- NYTimes: Inside Trump’s Campaign to Tame Higher Education
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/politics/trump-higher-education-2025.html
- ‘N.Y. Times’: Another Version of Trump’s Higher Ed Compact in the Works
- Let’s take a closer look at MIT, one target of Trump’s blunderbuss
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/12/mit-trump-education-universities/
- CounterCurrent: The Art of Case Resolution Agreements
https://mailchi.mp/nas.org/countercurrent-the-art-of-case-resolution-agreements
- Are Trump’s Settlements Losing Steam?
- The Little-Known Way That Trump Is Upending Community College
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-little-known-way-that-trump-is-upending-community-college
- NYTimes: White House’s Aggressive Tactics Are Complicating Its Education Agenda
- The Trump administration is reaching out to more universities about its funding-advantage proposal after several early invitees rejected it
- The sweetheart deal is over for academia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/19/colleges-universities-viewpoint-diversity-trump/
- Trump Welcomes ‘Any Institution’ to Sign Compact Outlining His Priorities
- NYTimes: Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/us/trump-university-california-berkeley-tactics.html
- NYTimes: What Has the Trump Administration Gotten From Law Firms and Universities?
- NYTimes: We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/opinion/universities-science-trump-china.html
- The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy
- NYTimes: How Trump’s crackdown on universities is affecting the world
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/13/us/2025-06-06-int-science-reaction-index.html
- How Trump Uses the DOJ as Tool of ‘Fear-Mongering’
- How a Shadowy Online Blacklist Became a Legal Threat to Pro-Palestinian Activists – Mother Jones
- Amicus brief by AAUP, Rutgers, Middle East Studies Association
https://www.presidentsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PA-brief.pdf
- Why UVA President’s Resignation Could Be a ‘Watershed Moment’
- The U. of Virginia’s President Was Targeted Over DEI. Now He’s Resigning.
- NYTimes: What the University of Virginia Should Have Done
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/opinion/university-of-virginia-doj-trump.html
- New York City Tech/CUNY one of the highlighted BA degree granting institutions whose faculty are increasingly integrated—race/ethnicity non-white.
- In Texas, University Presidents May Soon Control Faculty Senates
- Trump Ends Vital Higher Ed Data System Training
- Project 2025 Author to Work at Education Department
- Exclusive | Leaders of CUNY, other college antisemitism hotbeds to be grilled by House panel next month
- Senate Higher Ed Bill Walks Back Some House Proposals
- Republicans are keen on college sports legislation. Democrats are not.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/06/12/congressional-hearing-on-college-sports/
Indiana
- Indiana Bill Threatening Low-Earning Degree Programs Heads to Governor’s Desk
- U.S. Plans to Stop Funding Low-Earning Degrees. Indiana May Just End Them.
- Indiana May Reject New Degrees That Don’t Commit to “Values of American Society”
- Trump wants more apprenticeships. Indiana is going all in.
- Hundreds of IU degree programs at risk of disappearing – WFIU/WTIU News
https://wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/hundreds-of-iu-degree-programs-at-risk-of-disappearing/
- At Indiana U., Professors Spar With Administrators Over Nighttime Protests
This is saw on bluesky this week
Indiana U. Requires Buyout Takers to Pledge No Disparagement — a Move More Often Seen in Corporations
- Indiana U: Most Complaints Under Law Were “Form of Protest”
- NYTimes: Republicans Trying to Control Indiana University Meet Little Resistance
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/republicans-indiana-public-universities.html
Accreditation
- ED Changes Timeline to Recognize New Accreditors
- ED Eyes Rewrite of Accreditation Rules
- Texas Drops ABA Oversight of Lawyers Amid Anti-DEI Crusade
- Following Texas, Florida Drops ABA Oversight of Lawyers
- ‘Buckle Up’: Trump Official Pledges to Fix Accreditation
- ED Seeks Public Comment on Accreditation Reform
- FTC Claims the ABA Is a Monopoly
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/12/04/ftc-claims-aba-monopoly
- Education Department Names Five New Accreditation Advisers
- Accreditors Start to Endorse Short-Term Credential Providers
- Western Accreditor Officially Drops DEI Standards
- Texas Supreme Court Weighs Changes to Law School Oversight
- Accreditors Venture Into the Microcredential Landscape
- Watch out for middle states
- Community College Accreditor Adopts ROI Metric
- Western Accreditor Launches New ROI Tool
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/06/western-accreditor-launches-new-roi-tool
- He Helped Lead a Disgraced College Accreditor. Under Trump, He Might Have Another Shot.
- Trump wields his ‘secret weapon’: College accreditation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/12/trump-college-accreditation-political-influence/
- Despite Reservations, Florida Approves New Accreditor
University of Texas
- UT San Antonio Folds Race and Gender Studies Department
- UT Board Policy Asks Faculty to Avoid ‘Controversial’ Topics in Class
- NYTimes: The Conservative Overhaul of the University of Texas Is Underway
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/university-of-texas-republicans-academic-freedom-faculty.html
Others
- Virginia State Terminates 6 Professors Without Due Process
- Virginia Tech Bans University-Funded Identity-Based Graduations
- Texas Tech Begins to Collect Info on Race, Gender Course Content
- Youngkin Loses Battle Over Virginia Board Picks
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/12/11/youngkin-loses-battle-over-board-picks
- Nassau Community College Prepared to Sue Over Rejected Presidential Pick
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/11/26/nassau-cc-rejected-presidential-pick-prompts-lawsuit-threat https://www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunyufs/committees/executive/2025-fccc-statement-of-support/
- Arizona State’s President Is Pulling Out All the Stops to Get on Trump’s Good Side
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/arizona-state-university-trump-63e31b8d https://www.insidehighered.com/news/business/cost-cutting/2024/11/06/arizona-budget-woes-still-loom-large-one-year-later
- Nearby ICE Raids Stoke Fear on North Carolina Campuses
- Florida Board Says Syllabi, Reading Lists Must Be Posted Publicly for 5 Years
- NYTimes: Democrat’s Win May Upend a Conservative Push in Virginia Universities
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/politics/spanberger-democrat-virginia-higher-education.html
- New Emails Show What Happened Before a Texas A&M Professor’s Firing
https://www.chronicle.com/article/new-emails-show-what-happened-before-a-texas-a-m-professors-firing
- U of Austin to End Tuition ‘Forever’ With Help of 100 M Gift
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/business/revenue-strategies/2025/11/05/u-austin-announces-100m-gift-end-tuition-forever https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trader-jeff-yass-is-giving-100-million-to-anti-woke-university-of-austin-370ddecb
- Florida DOGE Details Disproportionate Spending at New College
- Williams College Removes Diversity Language From Faculty Handbook, Will Accept Federal Funding Again
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-higher-eds-dismantling-of-dei
- ‘We as Universities Have Lost Our Way’ – - The provost at the University of Texas at Austin on Trump’s compact, higher ed’s broken social contract, and red-state reform.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/we-as-universities-have-lost-our-way
- Northwestern, Cornell Still Working to Unfreeze Federal Funds
- TCU Moves Race, Gender Studies Departments to English
- U of Illinois System Bans Consideration of Race, Sex in Hiring, Tenure, Student Aid
- Compact Live Updates: Syracuse and Wash U Say They Will Not Endorse Compact
https://www.chronicle.com/article/compact-live-updates-more-colleges-weigh-responses-as-deadline-for-feedback-looms https://www.emorywheel.com/article/2025/10/provost-liebeskind-says-emory-has-no-plans-to-sign-trump-education-compact https://dailyorange.com/2025/10/syverud-declines-trump-compact-senators-pass-portfolio-review-resolution/
- Judge Halts UT’s Comprehensive Ban on Student Speech
- Howard President Steps Down, Former President Appointed Interim
- NYTimes: University of California Settles With Jewish Students Over U.C.L.A. Protests
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/us/ucla-jewish-students-settlement.html
- Justice Dept. says it is investigating Univ. of California hiring practices
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/06/26/university-california-trump-dei-investigation-hiring-justice/ https://www.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/page-assets/about/chancellor/strategic-roadmap/CUNY Markdown.Italic(Any[“Lifting”]) New_York.pdf
- The Trump administration froze Northwestern’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/northwestern-funding-freeze-trump-85d49da2
- Facing Research Cuts, Officials at U. of Iowa Spoke of a ‘Limited Ability to Publicly Fight This’
- Trump Administration Proposes Cutting Tribal College Funds by Nearly 90% — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-universities-trump-cuts-funding
- Inside UNC’s Effort to Launch a New Accreditor
- Universities quietly negotiating with White House aide to try to avoid Harvard’s fate, source says | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/politics/universities-negotiate-trump-administration-harvard
- NYTimes: Universities See Trump’s Harvard Move as a Threat to Them, Too
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/harvard-trump-international-students-impact.html
- Trump’s war on America’s Ivy League universities didn’t start with the 2023 anti-Israel protests. It was set off in 2019 by a sucker punch that left a man with a black eye.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-college-university-federal-funding-fight-91c2a274
UNC
- UNC Student Group Illuminates Administration’s Opaque Decisions
- UNC Administrators Can Now Secretly Record Faculty
- AAUP Condemns UNC System Policy That “Further Empowers Those Attempting to Censor Teaching and Learning” | AAUP
Harvard
- NYTimes: Trump, Changing Course, Throws Harvard Deal Talks Into Chaos
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/us/politics/trump-changing-course-throws-harvard-deal-talks-into-chaos.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2026/02/03/trump-demands-harvard-pay-1-billion https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/trump-walked-back-a-demand-for-a-harvard-payment-then-he-doubled-down
- NYTimes: Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/harvard-global-ranking-chinese-universities-trump-cuts.html
- NYTimes: Trump Administration to Appeal Harvard Funding Case
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/trump-administration-appeal-harvard-funding-case.html
- NYTimes: Harvard’s New Campus Orthodoxy Is Even More Stifling Than the Old
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/opinion/harvards-campus-speech-trump.html
- NYTimes: In Private Letters, Harvard and Trump Administration Escalate Duel
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/us/trump-harvard-letters-deal.html
- I’m a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/08/harvard-eric-holcomb-indiana-governor/
- Harvard Health and Human Rights Director Stepping Down
- NYTimes: Why Trump and Harvard Have Not Reached a Deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/us/politics/trump-harvard.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2025/timeline-trump-harvard/
- NYTimes: Pabst, Pamphlets and a Petition: A Harvard-Yale Tailgate in the Trump Era
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/politics/yale-harvard-football-trump.html
- Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/22/harvard-slashes-admissions-phd-candidates
- Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored
- NYTimes: Billionaire Trump Ally Emerges as Key Broker in Harvard Fight
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/politics/schwarzman-harvard-trump.html
- NYTimes: A Harvard Professor Is Placed on Leave After Firing a Pellet Gun
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/harvard-professor-pellet-gun-synagogue.html
- NYTimes: The Harvard ‘Die-in’ That Set Off a Debate Over Protest and Punishment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/harvard-palestinian-protest-die-in-lawsuit.html
- NYTimes: Harvard Seeks Assurances as Talks Restart in Washington
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/politics/harvard-trump-research-money.html
- NYTimes: Trump Says a Deal With Harvard Is Close
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/trump-harvard-deal.html https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-deal-500-million-trade-school-d79aa624
- NYTimes: Harvard Blasts Administration Over ‘Distorted’ Civil Rights Investigation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/harvard-response-trump.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/09/30/harvard-trump-administration-antisemitism-findings/
- The Trump Agenda: The Federal Government Moves to Prevent Harvard From Receiving Future Research Funding
- NYTimes: Harvard’s Former President Criticizes Its Approach to Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/harvard-claudine-gay-trump.html
- NYTimes: Trump Officials Question Harvard’s Stability, Saying Federal Inquiries Raise Financial Risk
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/politics/trump-harvard-financial-risk.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2025/09/19/education-dept-subjects-harvard-more-financial https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/trump-administration-turns-up-heat-on-harvard-with-financial-lever
- ED Gives Harvard 20 Days to Provide Admissions Info
- Lutnick: Trump Wants Harvard to Build Vocational School
- When the next Democratic President uses Donald Trump’s precedent to target campus conservatives or climate “deniers,” the right will be singing Harvard’s current fight song.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-harvard-judge-allison-burroughs-first-amendment-4c00709e
- NYTimes: Settlement Talks Stall Between Harvard and the Trump Administration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/us/politics/harvard-trump-negotiations-stall.html
- Harvard beat Trump in court. Here’s what could happen next.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/09/05/harvard-trump-funding-battle
- Harvard Was Cleared To Get Some Federal Funds. Then DOGE Stepped In. | News | The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/8/doge-blocks-nih-grants/
- How Harvard Can Out-Negotiate Trump | TIME
https://time.com/7314798/harvard-can-out-negotiate-trump/
- NYTimes: Harvard Is Told Research Money Could Flow Again, for Now
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/us/harvard-research-funding-trump.html
- At Harvard, Trump administration cuts hit young scientists hard
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/24/harvard-grad-students-research-cuts/
- NYTimes: Harvard Is Making Changes Trump Officials Want, Even Without a Deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/us/harvard-changes-academic-freedom-trump-deal.html
- Will the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Research Grants Sink Harvard’s Lawsuit Against Trump?
- NYTimes: Trump Wants Universities to Show Him the Money, or No Deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/trump-universities-financial-penalties.html
- Exclusive: Harvard patents targeted by Trump administration | Reuters
- Trump is not happy with the judge hearing Harvard’s lawsuits : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5495486/trump-harvard-judge-lawsuits
- NYTimes: Harvard and White House Move Toward Potential Landmark Settlement
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/trump-harvard-settlement-negotiations.html
- Under Pressure From Trump, the Accreditor Overseeing Harvard Proposes Nixing DEI Standards
- Democrats Plan to Probe Harvard if It Complies With Trump
- Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a 500 Million Deal With Trump | News | The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/3/garber-500-million-trump/
- NYTimes: Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/harvard-trump-brown.html
- NYTimes: Harvard’s Powerful Leader Faces Intense Scrutiny in Trump Fight
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/harvard-penny-pritzker.html
- The quiet academic leading Harvard’s fight against Trump
- Trump puts pressure on Harvard and others to pay up, after Columbia deal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/25/harvard-columbia-university-trump-deal/ https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-columbia-trump-white-house-fines-payment-deal-settlement-d61aa9c6
- NYTimes: Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to 500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/politics/trump-harvard-payment.html
- NYTimes: Harvard Will Share Employee Forms With Federal Government
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/us/politics/harvard-employee-forms-trump-administration.html
- HHS Accuses Harvard of Thwarting Investigations
- Under Pressure From Trump, the Accreditor Overseeing Harvard Proposes Nixing DEI Standards
- Trump vs. Harvard: A timeline of how the fight escalated
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2025/timeline-trump-harvard/
- NYTimes: Trump Administration and Harvard Face Crucial Court Test
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/trump-administration-harvard-hearing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/trump-administration-harvard-hearing.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/07/22/judge-appears-skeptical-harvard-funding-cuts https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-a-key-court-showdown-with-harvard-trump-administration-encounters-a-skeptical-judge https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/21/trump-harvard-hearing/ https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-court-lawsuit-analysis-6022851b
- “Harvard Creates New Public Service Program as Trump Administration Slashes Federal Jobs.”.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/harvard-american-service-fellowship-trump.html
- NYTimes: As Harvard and Trump Head to Court, the Government Piles on the Pressure
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/us/harvard-trump-head-to-trial.html
- NYTimes: How Harvard’s Ties to China Helped Make It a White House Target
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/harvard-china-white-house-funding.html
- Harvard’s Fight Is a Defense of Democracy and Civic Virtue
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/harvards-fight-is-a-defense-of-democracy-and-civic-virtue/
- Trump administration ups pressure on Harvard with threat to accreditation
https://www.ft.com/content/a60c469b-6c0c-49af-9c9d-6908f4ab6561 https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-accreditation-subpoena-trump-00d68304 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/politics/trump-harvard-data-accreditation.html
- The idea has circulated at the university for several years but gained steam after pro-Palestinian protests began disrupting campus in late 2023
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-conservative-scholarship-center-trump-attacks-a187242a
- What a Harvard Deal Would Mean for Higher Ed
https://www.chronicle.com/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
Iowa
- A ‘Barrage of Bills’ Would Overhaul Higher Ed in Iowa—If They Actually Pass
Oklahoma
- Tenure Eliminated at Oklahoma Colleges
https://insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/tenure/2026/02/05/tenure-eliminated-oklahoma-colleges https://www.chronicle.com/article/tenure-will-be-eliminated-at-most-of-oklahomas-public-colleges-governor-says
Texas A&M
- Texas A&M Closes Women’s and Gender Studies Programs
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/business/academic-programs/2026/01/30/texas-am-closes-womens-and-gender-studies https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-higher-eds-dismantling-of-dei
- ‘Heartbreaking’ and ‘Cruel’: A Texas State Professor on His Firing and Why He’s Suing
- Partisan Fury Got Him a Presidency. And Then It Took Him Down.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/partisan-fury-got-him-a-presidency-and-then-it-took-him-down
Brown
- Trump Directed Brown U. to Ask Students About Antisemitism. The Survey Found Broader Disparities.
- Brown U.’s President Declines Trump’s Compact, Saying It Would ‘Undermine’ the Institution
- Brown Joins MIT, Rejects Compact
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2025/10/15/brown-university-rejects-trumps-higher-ed-compact https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/brown-university-trump-compact-funding.html
- NYTimes: Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/climate/brown-university-offshore-wind-marzulla.html
- Brown University Makes a Deal With the White House to Restore Funding - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/brown-university-makes-a-deal-with-the-white-house-to-restore-funding.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/07/30/brown-strikes-deal-trump-administration https://www.chronicle.com/article/brown-u-s-deal-with-trump-restores-research-funding-without-paying-a-government-fine https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/brown-trump-deal-university-funding.html https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/brown-trump-deal-federal-funds-research-50-million-25b1e8bd
Minnesota
- Remote Class and Escorts: Twin Cities Universities Respond to ICE, CBP, Protests
UPenn
- EEOC Accuses Penn of Defying Subpoena
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/01/29/eeoc-accuses-penn-defying-subpoena
- 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
Yale
- Yale to cut graduate student enrollment due to endowment tax hike
- President Trump has made an example of Ivy League universities, attacking, cajoling and fining them in brisk succession. There’s a notable exception: Yale University.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/yale-trump-college-university-pressure-5316d26e
Columbia
- NYTimes: Columbia University’s Strained Peace: Fewer Protests and Sealed Gates
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/us/politics/columbia-university-protests-culture-trump.html
- NYTimes: Columbia Got Most of Its Research Funding Back. The Damage Goes Deeper.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/nyregion/columbia-trump-federal-money-returned.html
- Where Is Columbia’s 200 -Million Settlement Going, Exactly?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/where-is-columbias-200-million-settlement-going-exactly
- Community College Research Collateral Damage in Columbia Fight
- Research Funding Starts to Flow Back to Columbia, Brown
- Columbia agreed to a monitor, stoking fears about independence
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/26/columbia-university-settlement-monitor/
- NYTimes: Columbia Agrees to 200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/nyregion/columbia-trump-funding-deal.html https://apnews.com/article/columbia-trump-deal-00eef5dca9f003e593d2cb151f5cce17 https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/23/trump-columbia-university-agreement-federal-funding/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2025/07/23/columbia-settles-trump-administration https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2025/07/23/columbia-settles-trump-administration https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/23/columbia-university-reaches-a-settlement-with-trump-administration-00473322 https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-extraordinary-deal-with-trump-columbia-u-agrees-to-pay-200-million-to-restore-funds
- Columbia Expels, Suspends Student Protesters
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/07/22/columbia-expels-suspends-student-protesters https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/07/22/columbia-expels-suspends-student-protesters https://apnews.com/article/campus-protests-columbia-discipline-trump-administration-f009b90113fe0ba7847c54ffc9197bd1
- The University That Chose Surrender: Columbia’s capitulation proves higher ed can’t save itself.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-university-that-chose-surrender https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/trump-columbia-deal-professor.html
- Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster | AAUP
https://www.aaup.org/news/columbia-university-settlement-unprecedented-disaster
- Columbia Deal a ‘Threat’ to Higher Ed, Experts Warn
- What Columbia’s Settlement Stipulates
- ‘The Best Day Higher Ed Has Had in a Year’ – Larry Summers
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-best-day-higher-ed-has-had-in-a-year
- Columbia Struck a Deal to Save Research Funding. How Do Its Researchers Feel About That?
- Tucked Into Columbia’s Deal With Trump: A Restriction on International Enrollments
- What Columbia Just Threw Away
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-columbia-just-threw-away
- NYTimes: Columbia Walked a Tightrope on Its Way to a 200 Million Settlement With Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/nyregion/how-columbia-reached-a-deal.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/nyregion/columbia-trump-deal-reaction.html
- White House touts deal with Columbia as critics decry ‘chilling’ precedent
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/24/columbia-white-house-deal-implications-impacts/
- The deal that the Trump administration struck with Columbia on Wednesday is a blueprint for negotiations with other universities, a White House official said
- NYTimes: Columbia and Trump Near a Deal, With School Possibly Paying Millions
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/nyregion/columbia-university-trump-deal-antisemitism.html https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-columbia-civil-rights-settlement-86f64531 https://freebeacon.com/campus/columbia-nears-deal-with-trump-administration-university-will-pay-discrimination-victims-reveal-more-admissions-and-hiring-data-but-will-dodge-harsher-measures-like-governance-shakeup/
- NYTimes: Columbia Expands Efforts to Fight Antisemitism as Trump Deal Seems Near
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/nyregion/columbia-plan-to-fight-antisemitism.html
- Anti-Semitism Gets the DEI Treatment - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/columbia-anti-semitism-trump/683586/
- Middle States Gives Columbia a Warning
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/07/02/columbia-u-gets-warning-accreditor
- NYTimes: Columbia Cyberattack Appears Politically Motivated, University Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/nyregion/columbia-university-hacker.html
- Columbia University plans to steal a page from the conservative playbook
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/02/states-climate-law-model-legislation/
- The acting president of Columbia University apologized Wednesday for messages in which she appeared to diminish concerns about antisemitism on campus and criticize a Jewish member of the school’s board of trustees
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-president-claire-shipman-apology-3cd70dc5
- NYTimes: Negotiation or Capitulation? How Columbia Got Off Trump’s Hot Seat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/nyregion/columbia-middle-east-studies-trump.html
- Federal Judge Dismisses AAUP Lawsuit Challenging Columbia Grant Freezes
- Trump Escalates Attack on Columbia University by Threatening Its Accreditation - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/nyregion/columbia-trump-accreditation-civil-rights.html
- No, Trump Is Not Pulling Columbia’s Accreditation. Here’s What You Need to Know.
- NYTimes: To Bolster Columbia Inquiry, Prosecutor Likened Hamas Graffiti to Cross Burning
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/columbia-protester-hamas-cross.html
- NYTimes: What to Know About Trump Officials’ Latest Move Against Columbia
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/nyregion/columbia-trump-jewish-students.html
- NYTimes: Harvard Fight Illustrates Trump’s Worldview: If He Attacks, It’s Your Fault
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/harvard-university-trump-administration.html
- A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Columbia University demonstrator Mahmoud Khalil were likely unconstitutional
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-unconstitutional-judge-194a0d4a
- Trump administration says Columbia violated Jewish students’ civil rights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/23/columbia-university-trump-administration/
Kansas
- Another State’s Public Universities Are Tightening Post-Tenure Review and Dictating Teaching Loads
U Penn
- NYTimes: Penn Calls Government’s Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff ‘Disconcerting’
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/university-of-pennsylvania-trump-jewish-staff.html
- NYTimes: Penn and U.S.C. Become Latest Universities to Reject White House Deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/university-of-pennsylvania-rejects-white-house-deal.html https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/10/penn-rejects-white-house-compact
UVA
- U-Va. board leaders resign as Spanberger and Democrats take power
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/01/16/george-mason-vmi-lawyers-fired-jay-jones/
- Spanberger Reshapes Virginia Boards on Day One
- How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find
- ‘This is war’: In texts, U-Va. board members plot with Youngkin, decry DEI
- UVA Board Members Blast Lawmakers, Faculty in Texts
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2026/01/09/uva-board-members-blast-lawmakers-faculty-texts https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/040e55cf-fea3-4a07-8ec9-83c6dd9dfc41.pdf
- Advocates criticize Virginia deal with DOJ over tuition for undocumented students
- Democratic Lawmakers Amplify Pressure on UVA
- NYTimes: University of Virginia Appoints Interim President After Ouster
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/university-virginia-appoints-interim-president.html
- Tim Kaine speaks to students:
- Letter from 12 Deans to Board of Visitors goes unanswered for two weeks (the article includes a link to the letter sent)
- UVA Faculty Senate adopts no confidence vote in Board of Visitors
- https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/07/a-statement-by-40-jewish-faculty-and-staff-on-antisemitism-and-dei-at-uva
- As U-Va. president leaves, faculty say board failed to protect university
- The Trump staffers who set out to reshape their alma maters
- Teaching literature is an exercise in freedom. Now ideological demands from the right are putting it in danger, writes University of VIrginia English professor Mark Edmundson.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/paradise-lost-at-the-university-of-virginia-9e59195a
- UVirginia President resigns under pressure from Trump DOJ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/university-of-virginia-president-resigns-trump-justice-department.html https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/uva-president-resigns-james-ryan-dei-trump-d02a60fe
- The Unexpected Trump Target
https://www.chronicle.com/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
Texas A&B
- NYTimes: Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/tamu-plato-race-gender.html
- NYTimes: This Is No Way to Run a University
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/opinion/plato-texas-academic-freedom.html
New College of Florida
- NYTimes: New College of Florida Was Progressive. Then Gov. DeSantis Overhauled It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/us/new-college-ron-desantis-florida-conservative.html
Admissions
- Purdue Allegedly Rejecting Chinese, Other ‘Adversary Nation’ Grad Students
- Why Did College Board End Best Admissions Product? (opinion)
- The Trump administration is warning schools against using application essays, geography and other “unlawful proxies” for race to achieve diverse student bodies
- Dept. of Ed Clarifies What Race-Based Data Must Be Reported
- NYTimes: Columbia and Brown to Disclose Admissions and Race Data in Trump Deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/nyregion/columbia-brown-admissions-trump.html
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Live Updates: President Orders Closer Scrutiny of College Admissions Data
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/07/us/trump-news https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/us/politics/trump-schools-race-data.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/traditional-age/2025/08/07/trump-orders-colleges-supply-data-race-admissions https://www.chronicle.com/article/trump-begins-hunt-for-bogeyman-in-admissions-data
University of California
- The Shakedown – -How Trump’s Justice Department pressured lawyers to “find” evidence that UCLA had tolerated antisemitism
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-shakedown
- Judge: Trump Administration Can’t ‘Blanket’ Deny UC New Grants or Demand Payout
- NYTimes: ‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear’: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/16/magazine/trump-justice-department-staff-attorneys.html https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/judge-blocks-trumps-threats-to-cut-funds-to-u-of-california
- The University of California system eliminated the systemwide Department of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and replaced it with a new Office of Culture and Inclusive Excellence.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-higher-eds-dismantling-of-dei
University of North Carolina
- UNC Professors Must Soon Post Syllabi Publicly
https://insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/12/12/unc-professors-must-soon-post-syllabi-publicly https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article313599782.html
Northwestern
- Northwestern to pay 75 million to end Trump administration probes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/11/29/northwestern-agreement-trump-funding-freeze-ends/ https://insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/11/29/northwestern-settles-trump-administration https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/northwestern-u-will-pay-75-million-to-resolve-trump-investigations
- NYTimes: Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/politics/northwestern-university-trump-deal.html https://www.northwestern.edu/president/docs/resolution-agreement-united-states-northwestern.pdf https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1409486/dl
University of Virginia
- The Plot Against Jim Ryan
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-plot-against-jim-ryan
- The 12-page letter is an excellent read:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26278550-jim-ryan-letter/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/11/14/jim-ryan-breaks-silence-uva-resignation
- Virginia Supreme Court Declines Review in Board Picks Case
Cornell
- Cornell Settles With the Trump Administration
- Cornell cracks
https://statements.cornell.edu/2025/documents/cornell-settlement-agreement.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/cornell-deal-trump-administration.html
University of California System
- NYTimes: Trump Pressure Risks Free Speech at University of California, Judge Warns
- NYTimes: University of California Leaders to Meet as Trump Increases Pressure
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/us/university-of-california-berkeley-regents-meeting.html
- Groups sue administration over funding freeze at University of California
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/09/16/groups-sue-administration-over-funding-freeze-university-california/ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/09/17/california-unions-sue-trump-admin-over-threats-uc-system
George Mason
- House Republicans Say George Mason’s Leader Broke the Law. His Lawyer Sees ‘a Political Lynching.’
- GMU’s Gregory Washington: ‘I’m the Most Scrutinized President’ at ‘the Most Scrutinized Campus in the Country’
- NYTimes: At George Mason University, Trump Has Found an Unbending Adversary
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/us/george-mason-university-gregory-washington-trump-attack.html
- Virginia Democrats Accuse GMU Rector of Conflict of Interest
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2025/09/09/virginia-democrats-accuse-gmu-rector-conflict-interest https://www.chronicle.com/article/virginia-democrats-decry-george-mason-board-leaders-role-with-the-heritage-foundation
- Ed Dept. Says George Mason Violated Civil Rights Law
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/22/ed-dept-says-george-mason-violated-civil-rights-law https://www.chronicle.com/article/education-dept-finds-faculty-diversity-efforts-at-george-mason-u-were-discriminatory
- George Mason Must Not Comply With the Government’s Demands (opinion)
- GMU President Rejects OCR Findings
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/25/gmu-president-refuses-apologize-rejects-ocr-findings https://www.chronicle.com/article/gmu-president-refuses-to-apologize-for-diversity-efforts-calls-ed-dept-claims-absurd https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/25/george-mason-president-refuses-apology-dei/
- Virginia Democrats reject more of Youngkin’s picks for college boards
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/28/schools-youngkin-virginia-george-mason/
- Fresh Air: The Shifting Landscape Of Higher Education
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/24/1256157824/higher-education-george-mason
- On the Media:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm
- George Mason U. Faculty Rally Around Their Besieged President. They May Be His Only Support.
- Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
- DOJ to review staff texts, emails after faculty praise of GMU president
https://www.washingtonpost.com/educat
- Three takeaways from what DOJ told UVA
- Judge Removes Youngkin’s University Board Picks
- Gregory Washington’s Gamble – -The president of George Mason — and faculty leaders — may be punished for defending university policies.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/gregory-washingtons-gamble
- NYTimes: George Mason President Holds Job After Attacks on His Diversity Views
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/us/george-masons-president-gregory-washington-republicans-diversity.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/01/george-mason-president-raise-dei-resolution/ https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-a-plot-twist-george-masons-politically-embattled-president-gets-a-raise
- Why attack colleges? To open students’ minds or blow up institutions?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/16/trump-dei-george-mason-university/
- George Mason President Defends Univ. Against Trump
- Trump administration expands scrutiny of George Mason University
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/17/george-mason-doj-investigation/
- Trump administration increases scrutiny of another Virginia university
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/10/george-mason-university-dei-probe-trump-administration/ https://www.propublica.org/article/george-mason-university-antisemitism-investigation-trump https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/07/11/george-mason-faces-2-title-vi-investigations https://www.chronicle.com/article/an-inside-job
The “compact”
- New College ‘First in Line’ to Sign Trump’s Higher Ed Compact
- Penn Releases Compact Rejection Letter Sent to McMahon
- Americans Think Trump Is Overreaching With His Higher-Ed Compact
https://www.chronicle.com/article/americans-think-trump-is-overreaching-on-higher-ed
- Valley Forge Military College Wants to Sign Compact
UCLA
- A faculty lawsuit forced the university to release a 27-page draft “resolution agreement,” which would also require UCLA and affiliated hospitals to stop “performing hormonal interventions and ‘transgender’ surgeries” on anyone under 18.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/2025/10/27/trump-ucla-demand-12b-fine-nix-trans-athlete-wins-more https://ucop.edu/communications/_files/confidential-rule-408-communication-ucla-08-08-25.pdf https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-does-trump-want-from-ucla-the-proposed-settlement-was-just-made-public
- Federal judge orders Trump to restore 500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-22/rita-lin-federal-judge-restores-ucla-nih-grants https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/500-million-in-grant-funding-should-be-restored-to-uc-system-judge-rules https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/09/24/judge-restores-another-batch-frozen-grants-ucla
- Trump Proposes 1.2 B Fine in UCLA Settlement Letter
- The world’s greatest mathematician avoided politics. Then Trump cut science funding.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/09/07/science-math-trump-federal-cuts-grants/
- Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay 1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/trump-ucla-research-funding-deal.html https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/ucla-trump-administration-settlement https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-08/trump-seeking-1-billion-fine-from-ucla-over-antisemitism-allegations
- UCLA should not bend ‘on their knees’ to Trump in grant talks, Newsom says - Los Angeles Times
- ‘Extortion’: Newsom Threatens to Sue After Trump Fines UCLA 1 Billion | KQED
- NYTimes: Trump Administration Violated Order on U.C.L.A. Grant Terminations, Judge Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/ucla-grant-nsf-science-trump.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/08/14/federal-judge-orders-nsf-reinstate-suspended-ucla-grants
- With Grant Cuts, Trump Pressures UCLA to Make Deal
- 23 Cents Per American: The Price of Destroying Mathematical Research
- He’s the ‘Mozart’ of Math and Trump Killed His Funding
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/terence-tao-ucla-mathematician-mozart-of-math-trump-funding-nsf
- The University of California system agrees to negotiate with Trump after more than 500 million in federal research funds are frozen
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/ucla-trump-university-california-negotiations-public-7ef576d9 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/08/07/uc-will-dialogue-feds-over-civil-rights
U Chicago
- Research Is the U. of Chicago’s Lifeblood. Its Board Is Killing It.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/research-is-the-u-of-chicagos-lifeblood-its-board-is-killing-it
- How the U. of Chicago’s Financial Strains Are a Warning for Higher Ed
Dartmouth
- UVA, Dartmouth Latest to Reject Trump’s Higher Ed Compact
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/10/17/uva-dartmouth-reject-trump-compact https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/u-of-virginia-rejects-compact-as-trump-reportedly-invites-some-colleges-to-meet
- Dartmouth’s President Balks at Trump Compact, Sources Say, as Feds Expand Offer to ‘Any Institution’
U of Virginia
- NYTimes: University of Virginia Won’t Join White House’s Compact for Colleges
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/university-of-virginia-white-house-compact.html
NYTimes: White House Moves Toward Settlement With First Public University
NYTimes: University of Virginia Makes Deal With White House to Halt Investigations
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/university-of-virginia-trump-agreement.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/22/university-of-virginia-trump-administration-settlement/
- Trump put universities in a bind. U-Va. charted a way out.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/22/university-virginia-settlement-compact-monitors/
- What Does UVa Have to Change Under Its Deal With Trump? Here’s What We Know.
- The Trump Agenda: How the U. of Virginia Is Weighing Its Response to Trump’s Proposed Compact
Arizona
- Arizona Rejects Compact, Others Leave Options Open
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2025/10/20/arizona-rejects-compact-others-leave-options-open https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/u-of-arizona-declines-to-sign-trump-compact-and-sends-its-own-statement-of-principles
Princeton
- Princeton Will Require Standardized Test Scores Again
MIT
- M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/mit-rejects-white-house-compact.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/10/mit-rejects-trump-compact-education-funding/ https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-merit-and-mit-aaf4ac58
USC
- USC rejects Trump’s compact - Daily Trojan
https://dailytrojan.com/2025/10/17/usc-rejects-trumps-compact/
California State University System
- The Trump Agenda: With New Cal State Investigations, Trump Widens Scrutiny of Higher Ed in California
West Point
- Professor sues West Point, says the academy is restricting free speech | AP News
George Washington University
- The Campus With a Front-Row Seat to Trump’s Attack on Higher Ed
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-campus-with-a-front-row-seat-to-trumps-attack-on-higher-ed
UC Berkeley
- UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move | US universities | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/uc-berkeley-trump-administration-antisemitism https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/politics/trump-berkeley-antisemitism-investigation.html https://www.chronicle.com/article/uc-berkeley-hands-over-160-names-to-the-federal-government-for-potential-connection-to-antisemitism
Title VI
- Now Hiring: Title VI Coordinators
University of Chicago
- UChicago Lost Money on Crypto, Then Froze Research When Federal Funding Was Cut
- More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Will Pause Admissions
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
Op eds
- The False Flag of Viewpoint Diversity
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-false-flag-of-viewpoint-diversity
- NYTimes: One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/trump-one-year-later.html
- 4 Takeaways From Trump’s First Year in Office
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/2026/01/20/4-takeaways-trumps-first-year-office
- NYTimes: Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/opinion/jan-6-anniversary-trump-politics.html
- The University of Virginia and Cornell deals with Trump set a dangerous precedent | Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/23/uva-cornell-trump
- NYTimes: ‘We Lost Our Mission’: Three University Leaders on the Future of Higher Ed
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/opinion/university-higher-education-trump-politics.html
- Cuomo’s controversial CUNY record resurfaces as affordability concerns dominate mayor’s race
- Thoughts on Education and Freedom as Fall Begins (opinion)
- University Trustees Have Their Heads in the Sand by Ben Sasse
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/university-trustees-have-their-heads-in-the-sand-fb1c31e8
- NYTimes: Trump Isn’t Fixing America’s Campuses. He’s Bleeding Them Dry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/opinion/trump-colleges-universities.html
- NYTimes: Is There a Smart Way to Cede Power to Donald Trump?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/opinion/trump-havard-brown-universities.html
- The Dangers of the Manhattan Statement
- NYTimes: I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/hungary-viktor-orban.html
- NYTimes: Antisemitism Is an Urgent Problem. Too Many People Are Making Excuses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/opinion/antisemitism-jewish-hate.html
- This Is a Summer to Organize (opinion)
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/06/03/summer-organize-opinion
- NYTimes: Teachers Saved My Life. Why Do We Treat Them So Poorly?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/opinion/teachers-education-trump-administration.html
How best to describe the times we are in
- NYTimes: America Cannot Withstand the Economic Shock That’s Coming
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/opinion/ai-labor-unemployment.html
- Autocracy in America: Defund Science - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/01/reality-reshaped/685289/
- NYTimes: Trump Is Pushing a Culture War That Knows No Bounds
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/opinion/trump-presidential-power-nonprofits-ngos.html
- NYTimes: The Great Unraveling Has Begun
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/opinion/peace-conflict-war.html
- How universities can fight back against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/01/15/university-trump-lee-bollinger-review/
- NYTimes: Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/us/billionaires-influence-universities-trump.html
- NYTimes: The Old Order Is Dead. Do Not Resuscitate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/opinion/davos-neoliberalism-trump-tariffs.html
- NYTimes: The Thread Tying Together Everything Trump Does
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/opinion/trump-foreign-policy.html
- NYTimes: How Crypto Corrupted America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/opinion/crypto-trump-libertarianism-corruption.html
- NYTimes: Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/opinion/trump-miller-kirk-aftermath.html
- NYTimes: The Trump Vengeance Tour Is Coming to a Stadium Near You
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/opinion/media-trump-ellison-murdoch-kirk.html
- NYTimes: Trump Wants to Drown Us in a Sea of Chaos
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/opinion/trump-winning-imperial-presidency.html
- The Battle for “Viewpoint Diversity”
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/curriculum/2025/09/02/battle-viewpoint-diversity
- Despots at Home and Abroad Want to Silence Our Campuses
https://www.chronicle.com/article/despots-at-home-and-abroad-want-to-silence-our-campuses
- NYTimes: The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think It Is
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/us-typical-college-student.html
- Too many college students
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/27/college-students-degrees-jobs/
- Opinion | They’re Killing the Humanities On Purpose
https://www.chronicle.com/article/theyre-killing-the-humanities-on-purpose
- NYTimes: Trump Is Playing at Being a Wartime President
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/opinion/trump-intrusion-lincoln-roosevelt.html
- The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/harvard-trump-may-mailman.html
- The Elite-University Presidents Who Despise One Another Inside the civil war between the Ivy League and the South
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-university-presidents/683803/
- on the Conservative Playbook (2023-2024)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/us/universities-antisemitism-conservatives-liberals.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/us/harvard-president-campus-antisemitism-conservatives.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/20/us/dei-woke-claremont-institute.html
- A Year of Challenges and Uncertainty, as Told Through Data
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-year-of-challenges-and-uncertainty-as-told-through-data
- What Trump’s Bombast Reveals About His Vision for Higher Ed
- Why Universities Are So Powerless in Their Fight Against Trump
https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-universities-are-so-powerless-in-their-fight-against-trump
- NYTimes: Trump Is Winning the Race to the Bottom
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opinion/trump-america-china.html
- The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/197017/budget-bill-kill-higher-education
- NYTimes: Harvard’s Battle Is Familiar to a University the Right Forced into Exile
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/us/trump-harvard-hungary-orban-george-soros.html
- Notes from an Occupation
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/06/26/notes-from-an-occupation-marilynne-robinson/
- Academia’s Holy Warriors
https://www.chronicle.com/article/academias-holy-warriors/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opinion/trump-vance-morality.html
- Parks, libraries, museums: here’s why Trump is attacking America’s best-loved institutions | Margaret Sullivan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/02/national-parks-libraries-museums-trump
- The New Dark Age
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-defund-schools-research-republicans/682742/
- Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/donald-trumps-politics-of-plunder
- America’s Great Brain Drain
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/09/americas-great-brain-drain/
- NYTimes: Trump Battles Academia, but Especially the Ivy League
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/politics/trump-ivy-league.html
- A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency, According to 35 Legal Scholars
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-constitution-rule-of-law.html
- The 50-Year Wwar On Higher Education
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-50-year-war-on-higher-education
- NYTimes: Welcome to Trump’s Mafia State
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/trump-universities-mafia-state.html
- For more on the steps the administration has signaled it might do to gain obesiance, this AAUP white paper from 2024 offers much insight (shared by VC):
https://www.aaup.org/file/Manufacturing Markdown.Italic(Any[“Backlash”]) final_1.pdf
- NYTimes: Trump Is Insatiable
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/opinion/trump-harvard.html
Anti-woke/anti-DEI is simply racism
- In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/politics/trump-federal-work-force-black-women.html
- Senator Who Banned DEI Set to Be Texas Tech Chancellor
- Clemson Ends Several Faculty and Staff Affinity Commissions
- NYTimes: College Board Cancels Tool for Finding Low-Income High Achievers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/college-board-diversity-landscape.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/opinion/math-dei.html
- 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
Blowback
- Medical Residency Application Rates Fell in States That Restricted Abortion
- The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/liberal-arts-college-war-higher-ed/685800/
- NYTimes: 25 Billion. That’s What Trump Cost Detroit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/opinion/trump-detroit-cars-electric-vehicle-climate.html
- The Inevitable Rise of Right-Wing DEI – -Conservative Christians want safe spaces, too.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-inevitable-rise-of-right-wing-dei
- The New School faces identity crisis amid planned layoffs, reorganization
https://gothamist.com/news/the-new-school-faces-identity-crisis-amid-planned-layoffs-reorganization
- Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/12/04/trump-dei-ban-college-men/
- The Billion-Dollar Ripple Effect – -Trump’s research cuts will damage more than just universities.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-billion-dollar-ripple-effect
- Insiders warn how dismantling federal agencies could put science at risk
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03575-7
- Why Trump’s cuts to scientific research are a big win for China
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/05/china-brain-gain-united-states-scientists/
- October Brought Deep Cuts at Multiple Campuses
- Europeans Fear Trump-Style Attacks on Higher Ed Will Spread
- College Degree Aspirations on the Decline
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/10/college-degree-aspirations-decline
- University of Maine Cancels Wind Power Summit
- Indian Students Look Elsewhere After H-1B Visa Price Shock
- U.K. Weighs Streamlining Visa Process for Researchers
- Has Trump Ended Staten Island’s Wind Power Dreams?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/staten-island-offshore-wind-trump/
- NYTimes: Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/science/gravitational-waves-ligo-black-holes.html
- The Rise of ‘Conspiracy Physics’
https://www.wsj.com/science/physics/the-rise-of-conspiracy-physics-dd79fe36
- NYTimes: Purging ‘Equity’ Programs, G.O.P. Defunded Its Own Roads
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/republicans-transportation-grants.html
- NYTimes: How College Financial Troubles Could Reshape the Student Experience
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/college-financial-troubles-student-experience.html
- A ‘Great Defection’ threatens to empty universities and colleges of top teaching talent
- NYTimes: As Trump Pushes International Students Away, Asian Schools Scoop Them Up
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/us-international-students-trump.html
- U.S. scientists are seeing their research upended
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/14/scientists-cuts-grants-trump-research/
- NYTimes: Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/magazine/trump-community-college-anti-dei.html
- International Student Enrollment Could Drop 15% by Fall
- Stanford Plans to Cut 363 Jobs
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/05/stanford-plans-cut-363-jobs
- How Trump Forced Cuts at Wealthy Universities
- U of Utah Plans to Ax 81 Offerings, Citing New State Law
- NYTimes: Saving for College Once Felt Essential. Some Parents Are Rethinking Their Plans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/business/529-parents-saving-college.html
- Nearly 600 Duke Employees Take Buyouts
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/07/28/nearly-600-duke-employees-take-buyouts
- Staffing Shortages at ED Hurt College Operations
- Congress Cut a Federal Nutrition Program, Jeopardizing Campus Jobs and Community Services
- China “Will Blow Us Away” if Trump Destroys U.S. Universities
- They Want to Leave the U.S. Is a Master’s Their Ticket Out?
- What Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Bill Means for NYC | THE CITY — NYC News
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/07/trump-budget-medicaid-food-stamps-local-impact/
- NYTimes: Why 1.5 Million New Yorkers Could Lose Health Insurance Under Trump Bill
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/nyregion/trump-domestic-policy-bill-new-york-health-care.html
- Europe is wooing American researchers with funding as the Trump administration cancels grants
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europe-is-recruiting-academics-disenchanted-with-america-c4bae422
- Moody’s Warns of Credit Risk for Colleges Reliant on International Enrollment
- Nobelist: U.S. Scientists Took Support ‘For Granted’ Before Trump Cuts
- Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/national-science-foundation-trump-cuts
- NIH cuts: Red states losing out as canceled grants are reinstated:
- How Budget Cuts and a Loss of Trust Threaten Higher Ed’s Workforce
- FIU Donor Pulls Funds Over President’s Politics
- Business Leaders Call Trump Attacks on Universities a Competitive Threat
- NYTimes: Tuition Increases and Layoffs Are Coming to a Broad Set of Universities
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/us/tuition-hikes-layoffs-universities.html https://www.chronicle.com/article/u-of-minnesota-tries-to-soften-the-blow-of-tuition-hikes-budget-cuts-with-faculty-benefits
- American students in China face a barrage of questions about Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/08/american-students-in-china/
- U.S. Curb on Chinese Students a Boon for Asian Universities
- NYTimes: Red-State Universities Will Get Hit by Trump’s Cuts, Too
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/opinion/trump-harvard-scientific-research.html
- Trump’s Attacks Threaten Much More Than Harvard - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-harvard-higher-education-law/682985/
- NYTimes: World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/world/asia/us-science-cuts.html
- NYTimes: Denying Visas to Chinese Students Could Backfire on America
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/business/china-student-visas-trump.html
- NYTimes: The U.S. Lit a Beacon for Science. Under Trump, Scientists Fear It’s Dimming
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/trump-federal-spending-grants-scientists-leaving.html
- Exclusive | CUNY Labor School chairman resigns day after coming under fire for spreading ‘antisemitic conspiracy theories’
- DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite
- NYTimes: Candidate Criticized Over Diversity Blocked From Becoming U. of Florida President
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/santa-ono-university-of-florida-president.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/santa-ono-university-of-florida.html https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-ruination-of-santa-ono
- America’s college crisis - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/06/college-wage-premium-jobs-grads/683036/
- Millions of Americans hit with bad credit after missed student loan payments
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/25/credit-score-student-loan-elinquency-debt/
- House Republicans’ plan to hike taxes on university endowments could drive the biggest shift to endowments’ investment strategies in a generation
- At universities from the Ivy League to state schools, a financial reckoning has started as President Trump’s funding cuts hit home
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/university-spending-cuts-layoffs-pay-budget-trump-9f261d14
- NYTimes: Republican Plan to Tax Elite Colleges Could Hit in Unexpected Places
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/universities-endowment-tax-republicans.html
- Chinese College Gives Harvard International Students ‘Unconditional Offers’ - Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/harvard-hkust-china-college-international-students-offer-2076257
- NYTimes: The World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/economy/trump-research-brain-drain.html
- NYTimes: We Study Fascism. And We’re Leaving the U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/yale-canada-fascism.html
- NYTimes: For Some International Students, U.S. Dreams Dim Under Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/world/europe/us-international-students-college-trump.html
- The Scary Implications of U.S. Government Attacks on Medical Journals | Scientific American
- How a Decades-Old Diversity Program Became Collateral Damage in Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade
- NYTimes: White House Tech Bros Are Killing What Made Them (and America) Wealthy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/venture-capital-musk-investments.html
- NYTimes: Trump Is Laying a Potentially Deadly Trap for the U.S. Auto Industry
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-car-industry-tariffs.html
- European Governments Back Universities’ U.S. Recruitment Drive
- NYTimes: Losing International Students Could Devastate Many Colleges
- Trump’s Funding Freezes Halt Medical Research, Deaf Education Training
- How Europe is quietly stealing America’s scientists
- NYTimes: America’s Brightest Minds Will Walk Away
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opinion/young-american-scientists.html
- NYTimes: Trump Is Selling Jews a Dangerous Lie
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-jewish-antisemitism-wesleyan.html
- Columbia University’s President Resigns - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/columbia-universitys-president-resigns.html
- NYTimes: Columbia Campus Occupation Could Have Ended Without Police, Report Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/nyregion/columbia-protests-police.html
- NYTimes: As Trump’s Policies Worry Scientists, France and Others Put Out a Welcome Mat
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/europe-trump-science-research.html
- Fallout from Columbia capitulation fuels fears about academic freedom
- Trump-Inflicted Funding Cuts Could Lead to Overworked Faculty and Staff, Larger Class Sizes
- Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/25/dont-visit-the-us-it-just-isnt-worth-the-risks-right-now https://www.propublica.org/article/regional-public-universities-trump-funding-dei
AI misdeeds
- In-Person Classes Aren’t Safe From the AI Cheating Boom
- Einstein - AI Homework Agent
- Remote LSAT Ending Due to Cheating Concerns
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/02/12/remote-lsat-ending-due-cheating-concerns
- Adelphi Student Wins AI Plagiarism Lawsuit
- NYTimes: A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/opinion/ai-companies-college-students.html
- NYTimes: A.I. Is Coming to Class. These Professors Want to Ease Your Worries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/nyregion/ai-college-classes.html
- Survey: Faculty Say AI Is Impactful—but Not In a Good Way
- Lured by AI, Colleges Are Sleepwalking Into Irrelevance
https://www.chronicle.com/article/lured-by-ai-colleges-are-sleepwalking-into-irrelevance
- NYU Professor Uses AI Oral Exams to Outsmart AI-Written Assignments - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/nyu-professor-ai-oral-exam-mckinsey-memo-business-school-2026-1
- The Solution to AI Cheating Is Within Our Grasp
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-solution-to-ai-cheating-is-within-our-grasp
- To AI-proof exams, professors turn to the oldest technique of all
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/12/12/ai-artificial-intelligence-college-oral-exam/
- Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Fakery
https://academeblog.org/2025/12/03/artificial-intelligence-and-the-problem-of-fakery/
- The Post-Plagiarism University – - Professors have tried to fit AI into old categories of academic misconduct. Students aren’t buying it.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-post-plagiarism-university
- NYTimes: Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/technology/cal-state-ai-amazon-openai.html
- NYTimes: Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/ai-students-thinking-school-reading.html
- NYTimes: Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/university-illinois-students-cheating-ai.html
- Academic Libraries Embrace AI
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/31/academic-libraries-embrace-ai
- Students Who Lack Academic Confidence More Likely to Use AI
- Can Colleges Be Run Using AI?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/can-colleges-be-run-using-ai
- NYTimes: I Sued Anthropic, and the Unthinkable Happened
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/opinion/anthropic-chatbot-lawsuit-books.html
- Fewer Young People See Math Skills as Very Important in Work
- There is one way for colleges to defeat AI cheating—and it’s every student’s worst nightmare. Blue books are back.
https://www.wsj.com/business/chatgpt-ai-cheating-college-blue-books-5e3014a6
- Online Learning: Past the Tipping Point
- AI is listening to your meetings. Be careful what you say.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-notetaker-meeting-transcripts-be9bc4cc
- The LOADing Act
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S7543/amendment/A
- Guidelines for the Use of AI in AGB (Association of Governing Boards) Work
https://agb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Guidelines-for-the-Use-of-AI-in-AGB-Work-June-2024.pdf
- Faculty Latest Targets of Big Tech’s AI-ification of Higher Ed
- NIH to Limit AI Use, Cap P.I. Grant Applications at 6 per Year
- What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-end-of-the-english-paper
- NYTimes: I’m Watching the Sacrifice of College’s Soul
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/college-soul-ai-education.html
- Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/
- NYTimes: A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/technology/ai-elections-democracy.html
- NYTimes: How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/business/computer-science-education-ai.html
- The Handwriting Revolution
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872v1
- What Will Be Left of Higher Ed in Four Years?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-will-be-left-of-higher-ed-in-four-years
- Inside the AI Tool Used by DOGE to Review Veterans Affairs Contracts — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ai-tool-doge-veterans-affairs-contracts-sahil-lavingia
- NYTimes: Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/chatgpt-openai-colleges.html
- Chinese AI firms block features amid high-stakes university entrance exams
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/10/china-exam-gaokao-ai-cheating-test/
And just because it is fun
- NYU Wants Students to Put Down Their Phones. Will They?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/nyu-wants-students-to-put-down-their-phones-will-they
- NYTimes: Eric Adams, Donald Trump and the Case That Broke American Justice
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/opinion/trump-eric-adams-corruption.html
State actions
- Another Red State Wants to Shake Up Higher Ed This Year
https://www.chronicle.com/article/another-red-state-wants-to-shake-up-higher-ed-this-year
- DiNapoli: Recent Federal Actions Will Have Significant Impact on Higher Education in NY | Office of the New York State Comptroller
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/10/dinapoli-recent-federal-actions-will-have-significant-impact-higher-education-ny https://www.osc.ny.gov/reports/budget/fed-funding-ny/federal-impact-higher-education
- Florida wants to post more college syllabi online. Professors fear what’s next - POLITICO
- NYTimes: New York Survived Its 1975 Crisis. Will Trump Push It Back to the Brink?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyregion/ford-nyc-financial-crisis-trump.html
- Texas Governor Appoints Ombudsman Who Will Oversee Higher Ed
- We have an obligation to do more with less, and by showing true leadership and fiscal discipline, we can further support the Governor’s vision to meet the needs of the people we serve.
https://www.budget.ny.gov/guide/brm/fy27-call-letter.pdf
- New York Passes Law Requiring Title VI Coordinators
- Texas Lawmakers Create Overseer to Ensure Colleges Follow Laws
- When the Legislature Kills Your Department
https://www.chronicle.com/article/when-the-legislature-kills-your-department
- Legislatures Require Colleges to Cut Degrees in Low Demand
- Asm. McDonald: Assembly majority will meet on Friday to discuss federal cuts
- A 4/4 Teaching Load Becomes Law at Most of Wisconsin’s Public Universities
- Budget director says NY health care will be ‘destabilized’ by federal cuts
https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/dob-director-ny-health-care-destabilized-no-20765002.php
Coming attractions?
- Texas Launches Portal for Public to File Complaints Against Colleges
- A Planned Shake-Up at Montclair State U. Raises a Question: What Is a Department for?
- Loan Forgiveness Becomes Tool for Authoritarianism (opinion)
- Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida
- Charlie Kirk’s Death Is a Catastrophe for Higher Ed – -Things were already bad. They’re about to get worse.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/charlie-kirks-death-is-a-catastrophe-for-higher-ed
- Chris Rufo Floats Calling in ‘Troops’ – -The conservative activist says President Trump should consider using the military to dismantle college DEI programs.
- States face massive new costs under Trump budget cuts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/08/states-medicaid-snap-cuts-trump/
- Columbia, CUNY Law Professors Beat Trump in Court
- Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-california-federal-funding
- Medical School Accreditor Eliminates Diversity Standard
- NYTimes: Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/opinion/trump-danger-normalization-shock.html
- How I Lost Faith in My University’s Mission
- Trump admin backs Jewish professor’s discrimination case against CUNY school
- There’s a Darker Reason Trump Is Going After Those Law Firms
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/trump-law-firms-attacks.html
- McMahon Sharpens Tone on Accreditation
- The Trump Administration Widens Its Scrutiny of Colleges, With Help From the Internet
- On Student Aid, It’s Congressional Republicans vs. DOGE
https://www.chronicle.com/article/on-student-aid-its-congressional-republicans-vs-doge
- Senior State Department official sought internal communications with journalists, European officials, and Trump critics | MIT Technology Review
- Cal Poly, DePaul and Haverford Head to Capitol Hill
- Higher Education Leaders Call for Greater Defense of Board Independence
- A Looming Crisis for Public Colleges: If the federal government cuts Medicaid spending, state funding for higher ed will evaporate.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-looming-crisis-for-public-colleges
- NYTimes: I Know Trump’s Plan for Universities. It Transformed My College.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/opinion/trump-universities-woke.html
- NYTimes: West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/west-point-trump-military.html
- Indiana Budget Bill Contains Sweeping Higher Ed Changes
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/04/30/indiana-budget-bill-contains-sweeping-higher-ed https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-indiana-last-minute-additions-to-the-budget-take-aim-at-higher-ed
Higher Education as a Public Good
- Opinion | Is college worth it? This quiz shows the reality.
- Colleges Expand Basic Needs Support Following SNAP Freeze
- Colleges have had a tough year. Confidence in them is rising.
NYC actions
- What Mamdani’s Win Might Mean for Higher Ed in NYC
Statements
- ICE detains 2 SUNY Upstate Medical Employees – UUP, CSEA, and SUNY UFS Respond
https://nyscaaup.org/ice-detains-suny-upstate-employees/
- UFS passes two resolutions opposing the “compact” extended by the federal government to all US universities. One supports “Not This Compact”
- UFS Executive Committee statement: Not This Compact
- ACE: Statement by Higher Education Associations in Opposition to Trump Administration Compact
https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/Statement-Trump-Administration-Compact.aspx
- Protesting CUNY for Letting 4 Adjunct Faculty Go over Palestinian Rights and Suspending a Student
https://www.juancole.com/2025/08/protesting-letting-suspending.html
- Science and Democracy Under Siege | Union of Concerned Scientists
https://www.ucs.org/resources/science-and-democracy-under-siege https://www.ucs.org/sites/default/files/2025-07/6-Months-Trump-summary.pdf
- A Statement from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation on the Cancellation of
https://www.baughfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/Baugh-Foundation-Statement.pdf
- ACE, Others Call on Trump Administration to Reforge Compact with Higher Education
https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/ACE-Others-Trump-Admin-Reforge-Compact-Higher-Ed.aspx
The long game
- Stefanik and Cotton Send Letter to Treasury Secretary Bessent Requesting Investigation into the Council on American-Islamic Relations
https://stefanik.house.gov/2025/10/stefanik-and-cotton-send-letter-to-treasury-secretary-bessent-requesting-investigation-into-the-council-on-american-islamic-relations https://files.constantcontact.com/81b76c35801/4f8e2529-a69f-4745-87fa-6de3215c488d.pdf
- 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
Heroes
- NYTimes: Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/nyregion/wikipedia-conference-gunman.html https://gothamist.com/news/gunman-storms-stage-at-wikipedia-conference-in-manhattan-no-injuries-reported
Protests
- No Kings
https://www.nokings.org/ https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/838831/
- Faculty Plan National Day of Action to Protest Compact
- NO KINGS in New York City 10/18 12-2
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/838831/
- The Gaza Protests Are Still Haunting College Leaders. A Candid Interview With One President Shows How.
- PSC Resolution Condemns Retaliatory Firing of CUNY Faculty
- CUNY suspends student activist leader, fires four faculty members in escalation of repression against Palestine activism
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny-suspends-student-activist-leader-fires-four-faculty-members-in-escalation-of-repression-against-palestine-activism/ https://www.chronicle.com/article/an-anonymous-groups-list-of-purported-critics-of-israel-helped-steer-a-u-s-crackdown-on-student-activists
- One military ethics professor has resigned from teaching in protest, telling @RadioFreeTom that staying would have been both morally and practically untenable after chilling orders from Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth went into effect.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/academic-freedom-naval-war-college/683309/
- NYTimes: To Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/science/science-budget-cuts-protest-letters.html
- What Are the ‘No Kings’ Protests? 1,800 Anti-Trump Events on June 14
- NYTimes: Alarmed by Trump Cuts, Scientists Are Talking Science. For 100 Hours.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/climate/science-livestream-budget-cuts.html
- NY city and state lawmakers condemn CUNY chancellor after anti-Israel melee at Brooklyn College: ‘Step up or step down’
- Facing New Protests and Political Pressure, Colleges Are Taking a Harder Line
https://www.chronicle.com/article/facing-new-protests-and-political-pressure-colleges-are-taking-a-harder-line https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/nyregion/protest-brooklyn-college-arrests.html
- Trump administration praises Columbia’s response to protest after arrests
- The Trump administration praised Columbia University’s “strong and resolute” response to a pro-Palestinian campus protest Wednesday
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-protests-trump-8fc01720
Court cases
- LEAH GARRETT v CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.633652/gov.uscourts.nysd.633652.41.0.pdf
Zoom calls
- Scholars at Risk US Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/event/sar-us-midatlantic-conference/
- NYTimes: Antisemitic Slurs Disrupt Queens College Zoom Lecture About Israel
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/nyregion/antisemitic-slurs-queens-college-lecture.html
- What Can You Say on Campus at a Public University or College? Free Speech, The Constitution, and College Life
https://cvent.me/eAbLDP https://cvent.me/NLV1Ev
- A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/am-dean-professor-removed-following-student-complaints-over-curriculum/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/us/texas-professor-fired-gender-ideology.html https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-classroom-clash-over-course-content-went-viral-texas-a-m-fired-the-instructor-and-removed-2-administrators https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/09/texasam-gender-teachings/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-lege-brian-harrison-2025/
- Texas State professor fired for comments at socialism meeting | The Texas Tribune
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/texas-state-university-professor-fired/
- Webinar to share details about the services offered and provide legal updates and resources for he CUNY Immigration Assistance Program
https://ybephbsyus.formstack.com/forms/cuny Markdown.Italic(Any[“immigration”]) assistance Markdown.Italic(Any[“program”]) september2025_webinar https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/communications-marketing/immigrationresourcesandinformation/cuny-immigration-assistance-project-ciap/
- Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bill: Higher Ed Fights Back
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SwJINs5xRWOzxQarIH1OvA#/registration
Congressional actions
- Work-Study Funding, Child Care at Risk of Severe Cuts in House Bill, Advocates Warn
- What to Know About House Republicans’ Education Budget
- President Trump’s big tax-and-spending law includes new restrictions on how much students can borrow and how they repay. Here’s a guide to what is changing.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/trump-student-loans-tax-spending-bill-9dfc96eb
- NYTimes: What the Republicans’ New Policy Bill Means for Higher Education
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/trump-bill-education-college-student-loans.html
- What’s in the Senate Version of Trump’s Big Policy Bill? - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/upshot/senate-republican-megabill.html
- What the Senate’s Sprawling Policy Bill Means for Higher Ed
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-the-senates-sprawling-policy-bill-means-for-higher-ed
- Congress Eyes Cap on Parent PLUS Loans
- TransUnion: 5M Borrowers Could Default by September
- Graduate Programs Face a Federal Reckoning
- Education Department Outlines Plan to Change Debt-Relief Program for Public Servants
Accreditation
- How UNC Led a First-of-Its-Kind Plan to Shake Up College Accreditation
Others
- UC sends a warning
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/09/05/uc-system-warns-broader-risks-federal-funding-fight
Harvard
- NYTimes: Harvard Secures a Court Victory in Its Fight With Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/harvard-trump-funding-ruling.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/09/03/judge-rules-harvard-funding-freeze-illegal https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-ruling-trump-court-funding-8cc5026c
- Harvard Got a Big Win. Here Are 4 Key Quotes.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/harvard-got-a-big-win-here-are-4-key-quotes
Brown
- Brown to Fund Grad Students Who Lost Grants
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/09/05/brown-fund-grad-students-who-lost-grants
Admissions
- NYTimes: The Excruciating Question Confronting Black College Applicants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opinion/college-essay-post-affirmative-action.html
Northwestern
- NYTimes: President of Northwestern, a School Attacked by the G.O.P., Will Resign
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/northwestern-president-resigns.html https://www.chronicle.com/article/northwestern-u-s-president-was-singled-out-by-republican-critics-now-hes-resigning https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2025/09/04/northwestern-president-step-down
George Mason
- Virginia Democrats Block College Board Appointees, Leaving George Mason’s Without a Quorum
Alliances
- The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education
https://cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
- It’s Not a ‘Mutual-Defense Compact.’ But a New Ad From 18 Universities Aims to Send a Message.
- The Only Hope Is Total and Unrelenting Resistance
https://www.chronicle.com/article/an-open-letter-from-arne-duncan
- MADCs Tracker (U Mass Amherst)
https://www.umass.edu/senate/madcs-tracker
- UFS Blog on Alliances
https://www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunyufs/2025/06/03/faculty-batten-down-and-arm-up-with-compacts/
- Stand Together for Higher Ed
https://www.standtogetherhighered.org/
- New link for CUNY MADC resolutions
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SqTGsQIu-HLfc8b_oeGiBKfSOE7IAKzw
- Medger Evers and CUNY Law pass resolutions adopting a attached mutual defense compact.
- More CUNY Senates have passed Mutual Defense Resolutions: Brooklyn, BMCC, LGCC, BCC, CSI,
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- Mutual Academic Defense Compact tracker
https://www.umass.edu/senate/madcs-tracker
- ‘At this point, we are a liberal democracy in decline’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/05/larry-diamond-trump-america-democracy/
- NYTimes: What Happened When Trump Altered the Deal With Law Firms and Universities
- NYTimes: Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/us/trump-university-presidents.html
- Exclusive | Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration - WSJ
- The Resistance Is Here
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/04/29/resistance-here
- More and More Faculty Groups Want Their Colleges to Stand Together Against Trump
- A call for unity among researchers, libraries, publishers, journalists and the public in fighting the Trump administration.
- NYTimes: This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/nyregion/rutgers-mdc-big-10.html
- NYTimes: Fight Like Our Democracy Depends on It
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/opinion/trump-100-days-opposition.html
Conferences
- Scholars at Risk US Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/event/sar-us-midatlantic-conference/
Tracking projects
- SCIMaP – map of impact of NIH cuts
- Tracking Key Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration
- Tracking Trump’s Higher-Ed Agenda
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-higher-ed-agenda
- DefendResearch
Heads up
- 4 dead as Legionnaires’ disease continues to spread in NYC
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5454048-deadly-legionnaires-disease-spreading-nyc/amp/
- Test results
Letters
- University of California: Stand Up For Our Values [UCLA Faculty Association]
- Tell the Supreme Court: No Stay. Hands off NIH
https://scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/tell-the-supreme-court-no-stay-hands
- AAUP Letter Supports CUNY Law Professor Ramzi Kassem
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-letter-supports-cuny-law-professor-ramzi-kassem https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/2025-07/Letter-AAUP-CUNY-July-2025.pdf
NYS AAUP sends letter to BC President
NYTimes: Hundreds of NASA Employees, Past and Present, Sign Letter of Formal Dissent
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/science/nasa-formal-dissent-letter-trump.html https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/06e6b87deb245d66/67ef9b90-full.pdf
- July 4th letter from SUNY
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NgZBYtbE Markdown.Italic(Any[“1R0i2fyhZWPNkKtP-13qp69satQo”]) pcIVU/edit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CQXwYQeXukzS-HJjCfXZXQOwV-Mgq3pPtAF88AQ8P2g/viewform
- Four Brooklyn College adjuncts not reappointed
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m66vrS2Hoen6u6cqnjNtwUHZwqnBVAs7/view. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19MhSXhvLvfJWYCjabU2mb8EBdIW4wpYZf96l-Z-HJKM/viewform
- Letter to the Chancellor on MADCs by several CUNY faculty
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jd0KZzC-0Kl7koep3n0nWPyiOSsvQ66mlcpvyX48Bxc/edit
- Stand up for Science
https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration
- Open letter in support of Science
https://www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-in-support-of-science
- Call to Defend Federal Research Funding for CUNY and SUNY
- Fearing Trump, academics worldwide issue anti-fascist manifesto
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/13/anti-fascist-manifesto-intellectuals-trump/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/nobel-laureates-fascism https://stopreturnfascism.org/
- AAUP - Tell Your Senators: Protect Higher Ed & Student Aid
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-senators-protect-higher-ed-student-aid
- The Bethesda Declaration: A Call for NIH and HHS Leadership to Deliver on Promises of Academic Freedom and Scientific Excellence
https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration
- Sign the Open Letter to Urge USC to Respect our Voice, Respect Our Vote
https://unitedfaculty-uaw.org/sign-the-open-letter-usc-respect-our-voice-respect-our-vote/
- Twenty-one Skytte Prize winners speak out | Skytteprize
https://www.skytteprize.com/news/twenty-one-winners-speak-out
- From Lehman College
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TBPqh7pH3javF_m7s4T2sf6JU-YI0nP0/edit
- PSC Immigration Support Petition (Open letter)
https://psc-cuny.org/issues/immigrant-solidarity-working-group/tell-cuny-no-ice-dhs-on-campus/
- We Must Leverage the Strength of Our Institutions and Stand Together (open letter)
https://sites.google.com/view/we-must-leverage-the-strength/home
- We Must Leverage the Strength of Our Institutions and Stand Together
https://sites.google.com/view/we-must-leverage-the-strength/home https://academeblog.org/2025/04/01/faculty-letter-calls-for-interuniversity-defense-of-higher-education/
- National Academies letter on Science
Harvard faculty letter
Constitutional law scholars letter on Columbia
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/03/20/a-statement-from-constitutional-law-scholars-on-columbia/
- UCLA Law Faculty letter
https://sites.google.com/view/letter-ucla-law-students
- “Not in our name” open letter
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George Washington
- DOJ Claims George Washington U Violated Federal Civil Rights Law
Others
- UChicago Reducing, Freezing Ph.D. Admissions for Multiple Humanities Programs
Testimony on the hill
- CUNY chancellor discusses recent testimony on antisemitism
- The Review: Georgetown president says ‘we police’ the faculty. What?
https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/the-review/2025-07-28
- NYT’s podcast The Daily speaks to how all these so-called antisemitism hearings singling out college presidents are part of Project 2025’s plan to discredit higher education
- Four CUNY professors say they were fired for supporting Palestine
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/15/cuny-professors-fired-palestine/ https://arabamericannews.com/2025/07/18/four-cuny-professors-say-they-were-fired-for-supporting-palestine/
- CUNY’s Repression of Pro-Palestine Students Continues in Front of Congress
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cuny-house-republicans-hearing-repression/
- Stefanik’s latest battle doesn’t fight antisemitism; it attacks due process
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5409278-elise-stefanik-targets-cuny-clear/
- 3 College Presidents Went to Congress. Here’s What They Talked About.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/3-college-presidents-went-to-congress-heres-what-they-talked-about
- 3 More Campus Leaders Face Congress
- House Republicans Grill CUNY Chief on Campus Antisemitism Claims
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/15/cuny-felix-matos-rodriguez-antisemitism-house-elise-stefanik/
- NYTimes: University Leaders Reject Republican Attacks on Campus Antisemitism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/politics/antisemitism-hearing-uc-berkeley-georgetown-cuny.html
- Rep. Elise Stefanik skewers CUNY chancellor, calls for his ouster over ‘failed’ leadership on NYC campus antisemitism
- Conservatives Denounce Professor for ‘Symbolic Strike’ Post
- Congress attacked CUNY on falsehoods
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/18/congress-attacked-cuny-on-falsehoods/
Brooklyn College
- Brooklyn College Faces Backlash Over Fired Faculty
The media
- Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/politics/media-matters-musk-crisis.html
- FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn’t Anti-Trump
https://gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoint-a-babysitter-to-make-sure-cbs-isnt-anti-trump-2000634566
- departures-from-wapo
George Mason
- George Mason President Discriminated Against White People After George Floyd Protests, Justice Dept. Says
- NYTimes: In Virginia, the Attack on University Presidents Widens
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/virginia-university-presidents-dei-trump.html
- Trump administration widens probes into Virginia’s largest public university
- The Plot to Oust the President of George Mason University – This campaign is not about policy. It’s about power.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-plot-to-oust-the-president-of-george-mason-university
Hopkins
- America First Legal Urges DOJ to Investigate Hopkins for DEI
Testimony
- “Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology” testimony is rescheduled
https://edworkforce.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx
- UC Berkeley chancellor is prepping for Capitol Hill grilling
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/07/07/uc-berkeley-chancellor-is-prepping-for-capitol-hill-grilling
Financial aid
- Trump ends interest subsidy for Biden’s student loan repayment plan
Survey results
- More Americans Trust Public Universities Than Private Ones
Off topic
- New Data Shows Attendance Fosters Student Success
Loss of expertise
- Preserving the Federal Data Trump Is Trying to Purge
Undocuments students
- Texas Ends In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students
Agencies
DOE OCR
- Senate Dems Grill Trump’s Pick to Lead the Office for Civil Rights
ICE
- NYTimes: Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Revoking Student Visas
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-international-student-visas.html
- Mahmoud Khalil: What does my detention by ICE say about America?
- Detained Tufts student must be transferred to Vermont, judge rules
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/19/judge-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-vermont-ice/
- Fearing Trump’s Visa Crackdown, College Students Race to Scrub Op-Eds - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-student-visas-newspaper-op-eds-61595294
- Trump cancels dozens of international student visas at UC, Stanford - Los Angeles Times
- Trump Admin Broadens Scope of Student Visa Terminations
- CUNY is not immune
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/education/2025/04/09/department-of-homeland-security-revokes-student-visas-at-cuny-and-fordham – schools-say https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/09/trump-administration-cancels-dozens-of-student-visas-at-nyu-cuny-other-ny-schools/
- Tracking Trump’s Actions on Student Visas
https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-trumps-actions-on-student-visas
- With secret moves against international students, feds spread fear
- (Judge Suggests White House May Have Stretched Deportation Law Too Far
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/21/us/trump-news#trump-cornell-student-ice
- NYTimes: Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/columbia-student-ice-suit-yunseo-chung.html
- WP: New Trump demand to colleges: Name protesters — and their nationalities
- DHS detains Tufts grad student who advocated for Palestine and the “humanity of all people”
- NYTimes: ICE Agents Detain University of Alabama Doctoral Student
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-detains-doctoral-student-university-alabama.html
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/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
U Penn
- Education Dept.’s Penn Demands Show Shift in Title IX
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)
knee flexion is exceptional
- Why I Chose the University of Florida
Letters/Statements
- Several CUNY senates have passed alliance resolutions
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- Several CUNY senates have passed alliance resolutions
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- 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
Brown
- Brown Takes Out 300 Million Loan
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/04/17/brown-takes-out-300-million-loan
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
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)
https://www.chronicle.com/article/columbia-capitulated-but-so-did-the-rest-of-higher-ed
- 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/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: