[ad_1] The Trump administration’s swift initial rollout of orders seeking more control over universities left schools thunderstruck. Fearing retribution from a president known to retaliate against his enemies, most leaders in higher education responded in February with silence. But after weeks of witnessing the administration freeze billions in federal funding, demand changes to policies and … Read more
[ad_1] One of the nation’s most elite liberal arts schools, Amherst College has historically also been one of its most diverse. In 2023, federal data revealed that its overall Black enrollment, 11 percent of the student body, far outstripped many other similar institutions. So it was particularly jarring to the Amherst community last fall when … Read more
[ad_1] This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. Surrounded by a group of 10th graders, Alex Asal, a museum educator at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, read aloud from three school lunch menus. She asked the students to raise their hands for … Read more
[ad_1] Does the world’s richest university have enough money to survive a battle with the most powerful man in the world? Alan Blinder, a national correspondent for The New York Times who covers education, describes Harvard’s resources and the scientific and medical research at stake. [ad_2]
[ad_1] For 65 years, the U.S. Naval Academy’s annual foreign affairs conference has been a marquee event on campus, bringing in students from around the world for a week of lectures and discussions with high-ranking diplomats and officials. But this year, the event was abruptly canceled, just weeks before it was set to start. The … Read more
[ad_1] President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order targeting college accreditors, a group of largely unknown but long-established companies that evaluate the educational quality and financial health of universities. The order, one of seven education-related measures he signed on Wednesday, was the latest move by Mr. Trump aimed at shifting the ideological tilt of … Read more
[ad_1] Palisades Charter High School in California has held classes online since the fire in January. On Tuesday, students gathered at a new, temporary home, a retrofitted Sears. [ad_2]
[ad_1] The world’s wealthiest university is under attack by one of the world’s richest, most powerful men. The reasons have to do with disagreements about antisemitism, racial politics and raw power. But the fight, which the government accelerated with a mistimed letter, is also about taking Harvard and its billions down several notches. The Trump … Read more
[ad_1] Harvard, the world’s wealthiest university, sued the Trump administration on Monday, fighting back against its threats to slash billions of dollars from the school’s research funding as part of a crusade against the nation’s top colleges. The lawsuit signaled a major escalation of the ongoing fight between higher education and President Trump, who has … Read more
[ad_1] For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t. [ad_2]