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1 month ago | afr.com | Laurel Rosenhall |Isabelle Taft |Steven Rich |Stephanie Saul

Laurel Rosenhall, Isabelle Taft, Steven Rich and Stephanie SaulMay 25, 2025 – 9.26am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? New York | If it happened to Harvard University, could it happen anywhere?

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Laurel Rosenhall |Isabelle Taft |Steven Rich |Stephanie Saul

“This is a grave moment,” Sally Kornbluth, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote in a message to her campus. More than 5,000 miles away, Wendy Hensel, president of the University of Hawaii, said that it was “reverberating across higher education.”President Donald Trump has unnerved universities this year by launching investigations, freezing grants, demanding changes in campus practices and attempting to deport international students.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Emily Badger |Aatish Bhatia |Asmaa Elkeurti |Steven Rich |Ethan Singer

The Trump administration's threat to block Harvard from enrolling international students would remove more than a quarter of the university's student body, a share large enough to rock its campus and, potentially, its tuition revenue. The move, frozen within 24 hours on Friday by a federal judge, also highlights the risk other universities face from an administration that has shown deep hostility toward higher education.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Stephanie Saul |Steven Rich

McPherson College, in the middle of Kansas wheat country, is a small school that accepts the vast majority of its applicants, many from surrounding towns. It is best known for its degree in classic car restoration. The college might still end up a potential target in a Republican plan aimed primarily at the Ivy League. The proposal would impose billions in taxes on the investment returns of several dozen private colleges and universities.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Steven Rich |Vimal Patel

Top colleges in the crosshairs of President Trump have sharply increased their spending on lobbying, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Ten universities that have been singled out by the administration for scrutiny spent a combined $2.8 million lobbying the federal government in the first three months of 2025, which is more than those institutions spent in any quarter at least since 2008, according to the analysis.