Clashes on university campuses, and administrators’ failures when dealing with them, have triggered actions by some governments meant to limit what universities and their students can say and do.
For many in the “forgotten generation,” the promise of higher education has become an albatross of debt and regret. And it’s only getting more burdensome.
The university rejected the Trump administration’s finding that it violated civil rights law. President Trump said his administration and Harvard were close to a deal.
Gift link: If you doubt that America’s elite universities have lost their way, consider that, as part of a settlement with the Trump administration, Harvard is considering building trade schools. Whatever Harvard’s comparative advantage is — and it has many! — it is not in vocational education.
Colleges and universities likely won’t face immediate issues, but research may be disrupted as grants pause. For the first time since 2019, the government is shutting down after Congress failed to reach an agreement to fund federal agencies.
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s detentions of pro-Palestinian campus protesters violates the First Amendment rights of foreign students and scholars.
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