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The Trump administration has threatened to strip Harvard of its ability to host international students and is reportedly eyeing its tax-exempt status. But the legal path to do so is lengthy.

Union tells scholars to avoid all but essential trips and academic conferences choose non-US locations amid ‘sea change’ in research collaboration

The professoriate doesn’t demographically represent the U.S.—or the college student—population. The government’s anti-DEI crusade threatens efforts to address that.

University’s refusal to concede to demands over protests and DEI despite risk of ‘grave consequences’ has led to renewed optimism among staff

The clever stimulation of popular resentment against the perceived elitism of higher education only leaves the masses to the mercy of oligarchs who have aced the populism game, says Saikat Majumdar

Lawyers for the federal government say terminating students’ SEVIS records does not actually mean those students’ legal status in this country has changed. Immigration lawyers are skeptical.

University leaders said the administration's demands are an attack on its independence. Hours later, billions in grants were frozen. 

The administration wants “comprehensive admissions reform” at colleges. It’s unclear what that means or how it would be enforced, but pressure to avoid scrutiny could affect admissions practices.

Resistance strategies emerge as White House attempts to make elite universities fall in line

Deep cuts to federal research funding and crackdowns on international students could mean far fewer graduate students next fall and beyond. If that happens, undergraduates, faculty and research productivity would all suffer.

Some community colleges have stripped back DEI programming and made other cuts under federal and state pressures.

With US academia under siege from the Trump administration, universities elsewhere are contemplating offering ‘asylum’ to disaffected researchers. Here, four former US academics now established abroad reflect on the potential culture shock that awaits US émigrés