Emma Whitford
Senior Reporter at Forbes
Covering education for @Forbes. No longer active on or checking this app—reach me at ewhitford@forbes dot com.
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1 week ago |
forbes.com | Emma Whitford
Amid his ongoing assault on elite “woke” colleges, President Donald Trump mused Monday that he might redirect some of Harvard University’s now suspended federal funding to trade schools—institutions he championed through both campaigns and in his previous term. “I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Emma Whitford
During her commencement speech at the George Washington University College of Arts and Sciences on Saturday, graduating senior Cecilia Culver condemned the ongoing war in Gaza and reiterated students’ calls for the Washington, D.C., private university to divest from Israel. She didn’t mince words. “The horrors unfolding across the world may be easy to ignore for those lacking a moral backbone,” she told the audience to raucous applause.
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3 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Emma Whitford
Republicans who control the House Ways and Means Committee have released the tax portion of President Trump’s “big beautiful bill” and it contains provisions which seek to wring billions from private colleges.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Emma Whitford
The traditional May 1 decision deadline has come and gone, but it’s not too late to find a college match—here are dozens of excellent schools still seeking students for the upcoming fall semester. It’s been getting worse every year. For a variety of reasons, elite college admissions are becoming an impossible dream—even for perfect students. Today, 19 of 20 applications submitted to nearly all of the schools in the Ivy League are rejected. But the super elite aren’t alone.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Emma Whitford
It’s not just Harvard that will pay. As Republicans hunt for revenues, the tax on private college endowments could be raised and broadened. We found 127 schools that might be vulnerable. Aspart of his battle with Harvard University, President Donald Trump has suggested that the Internal Revenue Service could yank the school’s tax exemption—a dramatic move that lawyers say likely won’t hold up in court.
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