The latest wave of cost-cutting measures comes after the Trump administration pulled $400 million from Columbia University and $800 million from Johns Hopkins. Read more

New research links anti-pluralist leaders with declining academic freedom, warning of ‘dire consequences’ for academia Read more

Hunter College in New York is reworking its “Palestinian Studies” job posting after an order from the governor. Read more

But the full extent of the slashing is still unclear as neither the Trump administration nor Columbia has shared what grants and contracts were ended. Read more

Some of us were still working on our salad when the on-record conversation at The Presidents Dinner in Washington, D.C., last Thursday turned to free speech Read more

A federal judge in New York ordered on Tuesday that a recent Columbia University graduate and permanent U.S. resident who was detained by federal immigration officers Saturday not be removed from the country. Read more

California State Universities are in the process of removing Native American “cultural items” from their collections this spring to comply with state and federal regulations that prohibit their use for “teaching, research and display,” Read more

This is the second time in less than a week that the Trump administration has pulled funding from higher ed institutions suspected of not following his policies. Read more

The confrontation between the Trump administration and Columbia University reminds me uncomfortably of the scene in Independence Day when Bill Pullman, playing the U.S. president, confronts one of the aliens who have been attacking Earth. Read more

About 60 colleges and universities now face “enforcement actions” over claims of campus antisemitism, the U.S. Department of Education warned just a few days after yanking $400 million in grants from Columbia University over alleged civil rights infractions. Read more