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2 days ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Susan Svrluga |Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
Harvard sues the Trump administration in escalating confrontation (washingtonpost.com) Harvard sues the Trump administration in escalating confrontation By Susan Svrluga; Danielle Douglas-Gabriel 2025042121081600 Harvard University sued the Trump administration in federal court Monday, the latest move in the escalating feud between the nation's wealthiest school and the White House.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Mark Johnson |Danielle Douglas-Gabriel |Carolyn Johnson |Ben Brasch
Why Harvard gets federal funding and how it could make up for cuts (washingtonpost.com) Why Harvard gets federal funding and how it could make up for cuts By Mark Johnson; Danielle Douglas-Gabriel; Carolyn Y.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Danielle Douglas-Gabriel |Carolyn Johnson |Ben Brasch
What Harvard could lose in its battle with the Trump administration (washingtonpost.com) What Harvard could lose in its battle with the Trump administration By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel; Carolyn Y. Johnson; Ben Brasch 2025041519460700 Harvard University appeared to be bracing for federal funding cuts before it publicly pronounced on Monday that it will not submit to the Trump administration's demands that it cede unprecedented control to the government.
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2 weeks ago | 
spokesman.com | Susan Svrluga |Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
Months before Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong stepped down, conservative policy circles were buzzing about ways to force elite universities to change. Critical of college admissions, diversity, equity and inclusion policies, and campus protests that he lambasted as pro-Hamas, Max Eden, then a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote an outline that presaged what was to come in the new Trump administration. He singled out Columbia as the top target.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Susan Svrluga |Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
How conservatives are using Columbia as a ‘test case’ to enforce Trump’s agenda (washingtonpost.com) How conservatives are using Columbia as a ‘test case’ to enforce Trump’s agenda By Susan Svrluga; Danielle Douglas-Gabriel 2025040809000300 Months before Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong stepped down, conservative policy circles were buzzing about ways to force elite universities to change.
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3 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Susan Svrluga |Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
Trump administration targets billions in funding to Harvard (washingtonpost.com) Trump administration targets billions in funding to Harvard By Susan Svrluga; Danielle Douglas-Gabriel 2025033120234400 The Trump administration will scrutinize billions of dollars in federal funding to Harvard University, according to an announcement Monday by multiple federal agencies, another escalation in the administration's aggressive efforts to force change at prominent universities that had been divided...
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1 month ago | 
nny360.com | Laura Meckler |Danielle Douglas-Gabriel |Cat Zakrzewski
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed his long-promised executive order seeking to abolish the Education Department, an attempt to shrink the federal role in schools even as the White House acknowledged that killing the agency would require congressional approval. Trump said the order would be “returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs,” but he did not say which functions or funding would move from federal to state control.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Laura Meckler |Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed his long-promised executive order seeking to abolish the Education Department, an attempt to shrink the federal role in schools even as the White House acknowledged that killing the agency altogether would require congressional approval. Trump said the order would be “returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs,” but he did not say which functions or funding would move from federal to state control.
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1 month ago | 
adn.com | Laura Meckler |Danielle Douglas-Gabriel |Nick Mourtoupalas |Szu Yu Chen
It took less than a day forsomething important at the Education Department to stop working. The Trump administration had promised that massive staffing cuts would not impact the process students use to apply for federal financial aid. Then on Tuesday, two dozen workers who help manage a key piece of the system were among the hundreds laid off. The next day, access to the online Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, went in and out for four hours.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Laura Meckler |Danielle Douglas-Gabriel |Nick Mourtoupalas |Szu Yu Chen |Andrew Tran
It took less than a day forsomething important at the Education Department to stop working. The Trump administration had promised that massive staffing cuts would not impact the process students use to apply for federal financial aid. Then on Tuesday, two dozen workers who help manage a key piece of the system were among the hundreds laid off. The next day, access to the online Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, went in and out for four hours.
