Nearly 1500 urge Stanford leaders to oppose Trump policies
Apr. 17, 2025 - Messages from faculty and the Undergraduate Senate expressed concerns over academic freedom, institutional autonomy and student rights.
2025 Policy and Budget Announcements
Harvard’s tax-exempt status threatened
Apr. 17, 2025 - Ability to host foreign students also in jeopardy.
Brain drain at Census Bureau has employees warning about the country's statistics
Apr. 17, 2025 - Staff departures and survey cuts are roiling the federal agency in charge of producing census results, job numbers and other key statistics as Trump officials continue to slash the U.S. government.
Trump policy targeting immigrants shuts California students out of federal programs
Apr. 17, 2025 - California colleges support low-income students — including non-citizens — using federal funds. Trump policy now excludes non-citizens.
Concerns rise for international students at U of M, nationwide
Apr. 17, 2025 - Several University of Memphis international students are facing status concerns, as fears are growing for students at universities nationwide.
5000 faculty from around the country call on academic leaders to resist
Apr. 17, 2025 - Universities Join Forces to Call on Administrative Bodies to Stand Up to Attacks on Higher Education.
Trump administration threatens Harvard with foreign student ban
Apr. 17, 2025 - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused the institution of "threatening national security".
Brown University takes out $300 million loan amid Trump funding uncertainty
Apr. 16, 2025 - Brown took out a $300 million loan last Friday amid the Trump administration’s recent threats to the University’s federal funding.
Dutch universities plan to cut foreign student total by 2,000
Apr. 16, 2025 - Dutch universities have come up with their own plan to reduce the amount of English used in lessons and cut foreign student numbers.
International student's visa record terminated in Tucson
Apr. 16, 2025 - n international student's SEVIS record at Pima Community College was terminated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Student visas pulled at colleges across the Ozarks, sending international students back home
Apr. 16, 2025 - Missouri State University is providing academic support to six students whose student visas have been revoked.
Many HBCUs need government funding but some are preparing for a future without it
Apr. 16, 2025 - Several HBCU administrators who spoke to NBC News described a shared “culture of concern” across Black colleges.
‘None of these goals are illegal’: Universities struggle to respond to funding threats
Apr. 16, 2025 - More than 30 institutions have overhauled their diversity efforts, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status
Apr. 16, 2025 - The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of President Trump’s feud with Harvard University and other Ivy League institutions and other nonprofit groups his administration views as “woke.”
Computing Faculty Hiring Impacted by Federal Funding Agency Uncertainty
Apr. 16, 2025 - 34% reported that the uncertainty around federal funding agencies had significantly or moderately affected their faculty search process.
UC Berkeley International students fight visa terminations, allege biometric tracking
Apr. 15, 2025 - Hundreds of international student visas and resident statuses have been revoked or terminated across the nation.
Utah State University merges 5 colleges into 2 as state mandates multimillion-dollar budget cuts
Apr. 15, 2025 - Utah State University will restructure its academic programs, including several large-scale mergers and a still unknown number of employee layoffs.
Court blocks Dept of Homeland Security, restores visas for MSU international students
Apr. 15, 2025 - A temporary restraining order has been issued against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by a district court judge.
Minnesota joins 19 states in suing Trump administration over canceled student visas
Apr. 15, 2025 - The administration has now canceled the visas of nearly 530 students, faculty and researchers across 88 colleges and universities.
UVU axes center that had served 'multicultural,' LGBTQ and other students
Apr. 15, 2025 - Utah Valley University has abruptly shut a center created last year in response to the 2024 state law dismantling diversity initiatives at Utah's public universities.
Some FSU international students, one at FAMU stripped of visas, universities say
Apr. 15, 2025 - The news comes after several international students from both public and private universities across the nation have had their visas revoked in recent weeks.
Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States
Apr. 15, 2025 - The Canadian Association of University Teachers released updated travel advice due to the "political landscape" created by the Trump administration.
Trump threatens Harvard's tax-exempt status after freezing $2bn funding
Apr. 15, 2025 - Universities, as well as many charities and religious groups, are exempted from paying federal income taxes.
Tufts issues declaration supporting lawsuit against the Department of Energy’s new rate cap policy
Apr. 15, 2025 - Tufts issued a declaration supporting a lawsuit filed by several universities against the Department of Energy over its decision to implement a 15% cap on indirect costs for existing and future research grants to universities and colleges.
Trump throws wrench into NSF’s support for new Texas supercomputer | …
Apr. 15, 2025 - If Trump prevails in a spending showdown with Congress, it could delay or even end construction of Horizon, a $520 million supercomputer at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin.
'Five-alarm fire': Read the Trump proposal that could decimate climate research
Apr. 15, 2025 - NOAA grants provide funding to nine cooperative institutions in California. Several branches of the agency could lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
What proposed NASA budget cuts could mean for current projects
Apr. 15, 2025 - The cuts may mean that projects that don’t have to do with getting humans to the Moon and Mars will come to an end.
Nine students with MIT ties have visas revoked
Apr. 14, 2025 - One of the affected individuals has filed a suit against the federal government, with an independent counsel representing the student.
What are colleges’ legal options when threatened with federal funding cuts?
Apr. 14, 2025 - Higher education experts said colleges could work together or lean on their associations if they take up a legal fight against the Trump administration.
Trump administration freezes $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard over campus activism
Apr. 14, 2025 - The institution says Monday it won’t comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration as part of its campaign against antisemitism.