Trump Education Tag

U Washington Dean: ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ May Cause 50% Of Law Schools to Close

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 20, 2025 21 Comments

"starting July 1, 2026, the bill kills Grad PLUS loans and caps unsubsidized federal loans to law students at $50,000 a year and $200,000 for graduate education over a lifetime"...

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Evidence Shows Trump is Right About Bias in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 18, 2025 5 Comments

"until professors change our ways, we won’t recover the trust of the public"...

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Gavin Newsom Threatens to Sue Trump Admin Over $1 Billion Fine to UCLA

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 15, 2025 4 Comments

"He has threatened us through extortion with a billion-dollar fine unless we do his bidding."...

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Harvard Profs Say Faculty Won’t Cave to Trump Demands

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 15, 2025 8 Comments

"we will not give up so easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name"...

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Ron DeSantis Helping Trump With Higher Education Reform in Florida

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 11, 2025 1 Comment

“The Trump administration is working hard to get some of the rot out of higher education, the intellectual rot, the ideological rot”...

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Northwestern Faculty Group Doesn’t Want School to Accept Trump Administration Funds

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 11, 2025 10 Comments

“The way forward is to not give in to the lawlessness of the Trump administration — it is to stand up for American institutions of higher education”...

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Trump Admin Wants UCLA to Pay One Billion Settlement for Civil Rights Violations

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 10, 2025 4 Comments

"alleging it failed to protect Jewish students and faculty from discrimination by pro-Palestinian protesters"...

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Trump Orders Review of Harvard Patents Worth Hundreds of Millions

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 09, 2025 5 Comments

"Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick declared Friday that the administration is launching an immediate review of the intellectual property Harvard has derived from federally funded research grants."...

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Columbia Faculty Members Outraged by School’s Settlement With Trump Admin

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 06, 2025 10 Comments

“We’re terrified that this is just the beginning of further demands.”...

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Stanford U Dissolving Office for Inclusion, Belonging and Intergroup Communication

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 06, 2025 6 Comments

“The reorganization decision was made to preserve and strengthen core elements of student life while anchoring and integrating them within a broader portfolio focused on student wellbeing and engagement”...

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Education Dept. Says Wagner College Has Entered Resolution Agreement to Resolve Title IX Concerns

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 05, 2025 1 Comment

"On the heels of our agreement with the University of Pennsylvania, the Trump Administration secured another historic Title IX agreement with Wagner College."...

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Bill Maher Defends Trump, Says American Universities Became ‘Indoctrination Factories’

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 04, 2025 4 Comments

“There’s absolutely no diversity of thought.”...

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Unless Faculties Are Rebalanced, Deals Struck With Universities Will Not Effectuate Long-Term Change

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2025 13 Comments

"I completely agree that getting the federal government involved in hiring decisions at universities is a bad idea, but it's a less bad idea than what the current situation is...

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Butler U Drops Social Justice Class Requirement

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 02, 2025 3 Comments

“This change is part of a broader review of programs to align with evolving legal guidance while upholding Butler’s mission of access, opportunity and inclusive education”...

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Trump Admin Makes Billions Available for Trade Schools

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 01, 2025 3 Comments

“The route to a successful career does not have to take you through college.”...

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Trump Admin Reaches Deal With Brown University to Restore Federal Funding

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 31, 2025 4 Comments

"Brown has reached an agreement with the government to restore funding for the University's federally sponsored medical and health sciences research and to resolve three open reviews by federal agencies assessing Brown’s compliance with federal nondiscrimination obligations."...

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Cornell Likely to be Next School to Reach an Agreement With the Trump Administration

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 28, 2025 2 Comments

"expected to broadly mirror the model of Columbia’s settlement, with a cash fine to civil rights violations as well as a wide set of reforms"...

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Columbia University’s Deal With the Trump Administration Draws Mixed Reactions

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 26, 2025 3 Comments

“While the administration extracted a lot of meaningful concessions, maybe all it could, most of those concessions involve Columbia agreeing to follow the law, which it already is obligated to do.”...

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