Mary Julia Koch

The White House "has presented colleges and universities with a simple choice — adhere to federal laws prohibiting harassment and other forms of discrimination or risk federal funding," @RepWalberg of @EdWorkforceCmte tells me.

Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch

Trump is targeting leading universities like Columbia and Penn. But trouble could soon come for hundreds of schools outside the elite 1% as the administration wages a coast-to-coast campaign to transform higher education. My @NewYorkSun latest: https://t.co/fOkMLnZH1q

Trump is targeting leading universities like Columbia and Penn. But trouble could soon come for hundreds of schools outside the elite 1% as the administration wages a coast-to-coast campaign to transform higher education. My @NewYorkSun latest: https://t.co/fOkMLnZH1q

RT @Efune: Here’s a nice report from the Financial Times on some of the progress we’ve made at The @NewYorkSun, including attaining profita…

“The university could do a sort of internal government efficiency department,” says @LeoAKoerner of @harvardrepclub. “If they had proper messaging, I think everyone would support it — except perhaps those who are perpetuating it.” https://t.co/5QcgopZydp

Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch

Trump wants Musk to use a “scalpel,” while Musk prefers a chainsaw, against colleges and universities. Could schools save themselves by forming a kind of internal “DOGE” that targets bureaucratic bloat? My @NewYorkSun latest: https://t.co/5QcgopZydp

The average university has over 45 people devoted to DEI. That's more than the average number of history professors and 4x larger than the staff legally mandated for disabled students. "DEI is the fastest-growing segment of the educational bureaucracy," writes @ishapiro.

Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch

Trump wants Musk to use a “scalpel,” while Musk prefers a chainsaw, against colleges and universities. Could schools save themselves by forming a kind of internal “DOGE” that targets bureaucratic bloat? My @NewYorkSun latest: https://t.co/5QcgopZydp

“To most professors, the purpose of the university is teaching and research,” says political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg. “To the bureaucrats, the purpose of teaching and research is to bring customers to the university.”

Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch

Trump wants Musk to use a “scalpel,” while Musk prefers a chainsaw, against colleges and universities. Could schools save themselves by forming a kind of internal “DOGE” that targets bureaucratic bloat? My @NewYorkSun latest: https://t.co/5QcgopZydp

Trump wants Musk to use a “scalpel,” while Musk prefers a chainsaw, against colleges and universities. Could schools save themselves by forming a kind of internal “DOGE” that targets bureaucratic bloat? My @NewYorkSun latest: https://t.co/5QcgopZydp

The Social Security agency says that new cuts will generate savings of over $800 million. “DOGE’s efforts here are essential,” @RichAStern tells me, “to preserving the program and ensuring that seniors get their benefits without the trust fund being depleted through fraud.”

Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch

Musk called Social Security a “Ponzi scheme.” Trump criticized its “incompetence and probable fraud.” Hundreds of its offices are being shuttered. Thousands of its employees are being furloughed. What lies ahead for the US's largest safety net and the agency that manages it?

“Trump’s transactional policy might work in theory, but for Beijing and Moscow this confrontation with Washington is ideological,” says @ivanastradner. “They will continue with their strategic deception to undermine Washington.”

Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch

A transactional kind of foreign policy is coming to define the grand strategy of the Trump administration as it moves to engage Moscow and Beijing not as adversaries, but potential collaborators. My @NewYorkSun latest: https://t.co/CNYQfKMl2D

“We can be very fierce rivals,” says @GrahamTAllison of the ‘realist’ foreign policy view guiding the U.S. right now. “As in the Olympics, where I do my best and you do your best. But at the same time, I have to cooperate with you in certain areas, too.”

Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch

A transactional kind of foreign policy is coming to define the grand strategy of the Trump administration as it moves to engage Moscow and Beijing not as adversaries, but potential collaborators. My @NewYorkSun latest: https://t.co/CNYQfKMl2D

A transactional kind of foreign policy is coming to define the grand strategy of the Trump administration as it moves to engage Moscow and Beijing not as adversaries, but potential collaborators. My @NewYorkSun latest: https://t.co/CNYQfKMl2D

A consensus is emerging that traditional undergraduate schooling falls short of preparing students for the workforce. 77% of recent college graduates say they learned more in 6 months at work than in their entire four-year education, according to a survey by @Hult_Business.

Mary Julia Koch @MJ_Koch

No degree? No problem. As many 18-year-olds flock to trade schools, demand is growing for high-paying jobs that don't require a bachelor's diploma. Working as an underwater welder, for one, can pay as much as $200,000 a year. My story in @NewYorkSun: https://t.co/f03oDriSwc