Trump administration orders Penn to reverse Lia Thomas records and apologize or lose $175 million in federal funding.
Trump administration expands Harvard investigation to include Harvard Law Review over race-based article selection and membership.
Rubio defends State Department reorganization cutting human rights and diversity offices and seeking 15% staff reductions.
University leaders form private alliance to resist Trump administration’s attacks on academic independence and research funding.
Education Department opens civil rights probe into NY rule forcing schools to drop Native American mascots after Massapequa Chiefs fight.
Trump administration cancels $400 million in AmeriCorps grants, cutting 41 percent of the agency’s 2025 budget.
ICE reactivates student & exchange visa records, restoring legal status for hundreds of international students after lawsuits force policy pause.
Education Department investigates UC Berkeley for failing to disclose Chinese funding tied to Tsinghua research institute.
Federal government fights judge’s order to move jailed Tufts student from Louisiana to Vermont after arrest over Gaza essay.
Trump orders K-12 schools to embrace AI and scrap equity-based discipline rules targeting racial disparities.
EEOC texts Columbia and Barnard employees asking if they are Jewish or Israeli, then probing for antisemitism.
Columbia students and alumni chain themselves to campus gates after ICE detains Palestinian activists with university ties.
Judge blocks deportation of two Oregon college students, citing lack of justification for revoked visas and ordering they remain in state.
Trump administration to cut another $1 billion from Harvard health research funding after university rejects White House demands.
Naval Academy cancels frequent lecturer Ryan Holiday’s talk an hour before start after he refused to cut slides on book ban.
Federal judge orders ICE to transfer detained Tufts student and fast-track hearing on due process violations.
Trump officials fired 43 NIH science advisers—38 of them women or people of color—in a mass purge with no explanation.
DHS threatens to end Harvard’s ability to host international students unless it hands over protest and disciplinary records.
Trump escalates retaliation, asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status after $2.2B funding cuts.
Military families sue DOD, say Trump administration censored base school education and banned diverse books
DOGE orders AmeriCorps to cut disaster relief corps, stripping young workers of jobs and college aid.
Army and Air Force libraries ordered to review books for DEI content after Navy pulls nearly 400 titles.
Trump threatens Harvard’s tax-exempt status day after cutting $2B in funding, also demands school apologize.
Trump freezes $2.2 billion in Harvard funding after school rejects federal demands on discipline, protests, and academic oversight.
Judge orders Trump administration to restore USDA funds for Maine school meals after anti-trans funding cutoff.
Musk’s DOGE hijacks computerized federal grant system, blocking agencies from posting $500B in awards.
Three Florida universities move to deputize campus police for ICE enforcement under DeSantis-Trump directive.
After firing staff and canceling nearly all humanities grants, the Trump administration will use federal arts funding to build its long-promised “Garden of American Heroes”—a patriotic sculpture park celebrating historical figures in “realistic” form.
Trump administration seeks consent decree to place Columbia University under federal court oversight as funding talks continue.
Massachusetts schools chief defies Trump DEI order, says state complies with civil rights law and will keep promoting diversity.
Judge gives Trump officials 24 hours to produce evidence against Mahmoud Khalil or drop deportation case, warning she’ll dismiss charges Friday.
Trump officials freeze $1.8 billion in funding for Cornell and Northwestern as punishment for alleged civil rights violations and campus protests.
Appeals court restores DOGE access to sensitive personal data at Education, Treasury, and OPM, overriding privacy ruling challenged by unions and veterans.
Trump administration removes Harriet Tubman and slavery references from National Park Service Underground Railroad webpage.
New York refuses Trump administration’s demand to end DEI in schools, dismisses threat to cut federal education funding.
