Universities

Fri, Aug 14, 2026:

• Imagine Michigan’s new hide-the-grades policy in a Wolverines practice - WP / George Will

Wed, Aug 12, 2026:

• About 110,000 fewer foreign students expected after visa crackdown, report says. A report released this week forecasts a decline of about 111,000 international students at U.S. colleges and universities. - WP

Tues, Aug 11, 2026:

• University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades to ‘Curb Mental Health Crisis’. A pilot program aims to ease pressure on freshmen and help them adjust to demands of college. - WSJ

Tues, April 14, 2026:

• Hampshire College Will Close Amid Student Enrollment Declines. Other small private colleges like Hampshire have closed in recent years as financial pressures and competition for students increase. - NYT

Tues, March 31, 2026:

• Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn. The government’s effort to collect the names and phone numbers of Jewish people on campus as it investigates antisemitism has upset some people who worry about how the information will be used. - NYT

Wed, Jan 21, 2026:

• Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges - AP

Sat, Jan 17, 2026:

• They wanted a university without cancel culture. Then dissenters were ousted. - Politico

Sat, Nov 30, 2025:

• Northwestern to pay $75 million to end Trump administration probes. Northwestern’s interim president said the university chose to negotiate an agreement because the “cost of a legal fight was too high and the risks too grave.” - WP

Fri, Nov 7, 2025:

• Cornell to pay $60M in deal with Trump administration to restore federal research funding - Hill

Thurs, Oct 30, 2025:

• Colleges Face a Financial Reckoning. The University of Chicago Is Exhibit A. Decades of big spending, new federal funding cuts and a changing view of higher education created a perfect storm; ‘Spending Your Tuition On Its Mistakes’ - WSJ

Mon, Oct 20, 2025:

• All but 2 Universities Decline a Trump Offer of Preferential Funding. One of the two, Vanderbilt University, signaled it had reservations. - NYT

Fri, Oct 10, 2025:

• MIT rebuffs Trump’s federal funding proposal that comes with new limits. The school’s leader expressed concerns that the compact would restrict its freedom of expression. - Politico

Mon, Oct 6, 2025:

• Trump slashed funding for universities that helped create these vital drugs - WP
  “drugs that people take for serious illnesses — to prevent HIV, shrink tumors and treat seizures — have years-long backstories that often trace to basic science experiments in university laboratories.”

Fri, Oct 3, 2025:

• Trump makes colleges an offer they can refuse. Universities need to change, but a proposed federal compact creates more trouble than it’s worth. - WP Editorial Bd.

Thurs, Oct 2, 2025:

• Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money - AP

Tues, Sept 23, 2025:

• Judge orders Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding to UCLA - AP

Wed, Sept 3, 2025:

• Judge reverses Trump administration’s cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University - AP

Tues, Aug 19, 2025:

• Trump Wants Universities to Show Him the Money, or No Deal. President Trump has personally stipulated that hefty financial penalties be part of agreements his administration is negotiating with the elite universities. Critics call it extortion. - NYT

Sat Aug 9, 2025:

• Why the ivory tower wants a deal with Trump. The schools won a reprieve in court, but they’re still offering the president a compromise. - Politico

Fri, Aug 8, 2025:

• College endowment tax is leading to hiring freezes and could mean cuts in financial aid - AP

• Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding. The Trump administration has ended about $500 million for the Los Angeles-based university. The president said he wanted nearly double that to restart the flow of funds. - NYT

• Trump Administration Threatens to Take Over Harvard’s Patents. Move is latest escalation in White House’s battle with Ivy League school - WSJ

Fri, July 18, 2925:

• White House to Release $1.3 Billion in Frozen Funds for After-School Programs. The money will allow federally funded after-school programs to open this school year, preserving a lifeline for working parents. But other federal dollars remain on hold. - NYT

Thurs, July 17, 2025:

• How 4 of the Federal Megabill’sF Education Policies Will Affect States - NCSL

Wed, July 16, 2025:

• Senate & House Education Leaders Statement on Trump Admin Illegally Moving Department of Education Programs to DOL as Part of Its Efforts to Dismantle the Department - Approps Ds

Mon, July 14, 2025:

• States sue to force feds to release $7 billion in education funding. The Trump administration has withheld grant funding that states expected for after-school activities and other programs. - WP

• Justices allow mass layoffs at Education Department. Education Secretary Linda McMahon says Trump ‘the ultimate authority to make decisions about staffing levels’ - Roll Call

Tues, July 1, 2025:

• Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation. The money, which was allocated by Congress, helps pay for after-school programs, support for students learning English and other services. - NYT

Sat, June 28, 2025:

• White House seeks to cut nation’s only federal after-school program. The White House budget proposal cuts and consolidates programming for high-needs students as part of a $12 billion reduction to Education Department’s spending. - WP

Wed, June 25, 2025:

• HUD to move from D.C. to Virginia, displacing National Science Foundation staff - WP

Wed, June 18, 2025:

• Murray, DeLauro, Scott, Baldwin Call on Department of Education to Immediately Cease Illegal Plan to Transfer Career and Technical Education Program Responsibilities to Labor Department - Approps

Thurs, May 29, 2025:

• Judge blocks Trump administration effort to ban foreign students at Harvard. Students are already reporting visa denials and revocations and seeking to transfer. - WP

• If America Doesn’t Want Harvard, Somebody Else Will. Defunding academic research is a spectacular act of self-harm. If the US persists, other countries are right to step in. - Bloomberg

Sun, May 25, 2025:

• The U.S. has more than 1 million foreign students. Here’s who they are. International students are at the center of Trump’s latest escalation against Harvard University. - WP

Fri, May 23, 2025:

• A federal judge halted on Friday the Trump administration’s attempts to block international students from attending Harvard University - NYT

Tues, May 6, 2025:

• Dept. of Education eliminates grant for PBS children’s shows - NYT

Mon, May 5, 2025:

• Trump administration calls for a freeze on all new grants to Harvard; Education Secretary Linda McMahon posted a harshly worded letter to Harvard on Monday saying the school must meet several criteria to receive new grants. - WP

Fri, May 2, 2025:

• Trump Asks Congress to Slash Billions in Education Funding—and ‘Preserve’ Title I - EdWeek

Tues, April 22, 2025:

• Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says - AP

Wed, April 16, 2025:

• The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University ... an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks to turn up pressure on the university that has defied its demands to change its hiring and other practices. - CNN

• The real stakes in Trump’s confrontation with Harvard - CNN

• Why colleges like Harvard can’t easily use endowments to replace federal funding; Endowments aren’t a simple replacement for government funding because of restrictions related to donor earmarking, legality and research priorities, experts say. - NBC

• How war, money and the quest for discovery entwined the US government and universities - AP

Mon, April 14, 2025:

• Harvard hit with $2.2 billion funding freeze after rejecting Trump’s demands; The administration demanded changes to policies and governance due to allegations of antisemitism, illegal DEI. Harvard called the directives unconstitutional. - WP

• College financial aid hit with glitches, delays due to federal staffing cuts; Cracks are starting to appear in the federal financial aid apparatus after the Trump administration imposed sweeping staff cuts at the Education Department last month. - WP

Mon, March 31, 2025:

• Universities Like the One I Run (Cornell) Aren’t Afraid to Let People Argue - NYT

Fri, March 28, 2025:

• Trump restricts federal research funding, a lifeblood for colleges - AP

Tues, March 25, 2022:

• ‘Borrowers have zero power’: Trump moving student loans to SBA sparks concern, confusion - The Hill

Sat, March 22, 2025:

• Dismantling Department of Education could cause chaos for Americans with student loans, experts warn - CBS

Fri, March 21, 2025:

• Trump says student loans moving to SBA, ‘special needs’ to HHS - The Hill

Thurs, March 20, 2025:

• White House backs away from full Education Dept. shutdown - WP
  “White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the department will not be completely shut down, which would require congressional action, but said a smaller version will continue to administer “critical functions.” She said those functions included the student loan program, Pell grants, civil rights enforcement and major grant programs of Title I and IDEA, which helps pay the cost of educating students with disabilities. Together, those programs represent the vast majority of what the department does.” (emphasis added)

• Trump defends his education overhaul with a backdrop of GOP governors and kids - Politico

• Rep. Bobby Scott, ranking Dem on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, says Trump’s plan to dismantle DoEd would put students at risk - The Hill

Wed, March 12, 2025:

• With mass layoffs, McMahon and Trump begin mission to end Education Dept - Roll Call

Tues, March 11, 2025:

• Education Dept cuts half its staff as Trump vows to wind the agency down - AP

• Education Dept. cutting nearly half of workforce - CNN

Thurs, March 6, 2025:

• Draft of Trump executive order aims to eliminate education department - WSJ
  “The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025...laid out a detailed road map for closing the agency, which included placing the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights in the Justice Department and the student-loan portfolio in the Treasury Department. It calls for phasing out a longstanding funding stream for schools based on how many low-income students they serve. The Trump administration has already taken a series of steps to weaken the agency. It laid off probationary employees and offered others buyouts. It paused some of its civil-rights enforcement work and canceled many grants and contracts related to research and teacher quality....With around 4,500 employees as of last year, the department is the smallest cabinet-level agency.”

Tues, March 4, 2025:

• Linda McMahon lays out Education Department’s “final mission” - Politico

Fri, Feb 28, 2025:

• Education Dept. to staffers: quit by Monday and get $25k in cash - Politico

Thurs, Feb 13, 2025:

• Trump vows to end Education Dept. DOGE has already started - Bloomberg

Mon, Feb 10, 2025:

• DOGE announces $881 million in cuts for DoEd contracts - Politico

Thurs, Feb 6, 2025:

• Dem letter to Education Dept. demanding answers on Trump’s plans to dismantle - Murray/Sanders

Wed, Feb 5, 2025:

• Trump and Musk are moving to smother these three pieces of the government-CFPB, AID, DoEd - CNN

Tues, Feb 4, 2025:

• In Trump’s quest to close the Education Dept,, Congress and his own agenda may get in the way - AP

Mon, Feb 3, 2025:

• Trump preps order to dismantle Education Dept. as DOGE probes data; Closing the agency requires congressional approval, so administration aims to diminish it in the meantime. - WP

Thurs, Jan 30, 2025:

• With executive orders, Trump tests local control of schools - NYTimes

Wed, Jan 29, 2025:

• Trump signs order to promote “patriotic education” in the classroom - NYTimes

• Trump signs orders on school choice and school funding - CNN
  “Among its directives, the Department of Education – which Trump has vowed to shut down – is ordered to issue guidance on using federal funding to support scholarship programs for grade school students. The Department of Defense is ordered to submit a plan to Trump directly on how military families can use DOD funds to send children to their preferred school. The secretary of interior is ordered to submit a plan to Trump on how families with students attending Bureau of Indian Education schools can use federal money to attend the school of their choice. And the Health and Human Services Department must issue guidance on how states can use HHS funds to attend private or faith-based schools.”

Wed, Jan 29, 2025:

• Students aren’t recovering from covid. Test scores are getting worse. WashPost