International Students Worry Even as Trump Temporarily Restores Some Legal Statuses
Students and their immigration lawyers say they were relieved for the temporary reprieve, but emphasized that it was just that — temporary.
It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
Students and their immigration lawyers say they were relieved for the temporary reprieve, but emphasized that it was just that — temporary.
Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump’s potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest.
It was the latest move by President Trump in his effort to shift the ideological tilt of the higher education system as he battles elite universities.
President Trump is trying to influence which colleges receive federal financial support, a practice that began around the time of World War II.
But a fight with the nation’s oldest, richest and most elite university is a battle that President Trump and his powerful aide, Stephen Miller, want to have.
The opaque process, part of a strategy by conservatives to realign the liberal tilt of elite universities, has upended higher education.
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
The decision came as an initial win for a broad coalition of academic institutions that had argued the policy jeopardized ongoing research, but it set up an almost certain appeal.
The office of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the college to adhere to an executive order from President Trump banning educational material related to diversity, equity and inclusion topics.
The list was similar to one sent to Columbia University last month after the government canceled $400 million to the school. Harvard may have $9 billion on the line.