Chris Marsicano, a professor at Davidson College in North Carolina whose research focuses on how higher education institutions impact government policy, said claims that conservatives are penalized academically at colleges are largely overblown.
Linda McMahon’s remarks came after the university conceded to Trump administration demands, including on protest policies and some Middle Eastern studies.
Harvard University is eliminating tuition fees for students from families with incomes of $200,000 or less, attempting to broaden access to the school at a time when elite universities are under attack from the White House and lawmakers.
America’s most prestigious colleges are rushing to the debt market at the fastest pace on record, locking in financing while they can to pay for campus projects or refinance debt against a backdrop of tax and funding threats.
The administration, which wants to close the Education Department, hasn’t said how it would move the $1.7 trillion portfolio to a new agency. Democrats say doing so would be a “clear violation” of the law. A day after White House officials said the Education Department would administer the student loan program, President Donald Trump announced that the Small Business Administration would be taking over the $1.7 trillion portfolio.