California banned affirmative action decades ago. The Trump administration says it plans to investigate whether schools there are still considering race.
Elon University often gets confused with the billionaire in charge of DOGE, despite no connection, but the mix-ups have increased in the most recent Trump era.
Republicans are targeting university endowment tax hikes to help reduce the national deficit and as a potential lever to force universities to comply with the Trump administration’s priorities.
Nearly a third of the academic institutions under investigation for antisemitism by the Trump administration had already resolved earlier complaints or had never been subject to such complaints at all, according to 31 colleges' responses to Reuters queries and an analysis of public records.
The planned purge is another escalation of Trump's aggressive crackdown on immigration and antisemitism that civil libertarians say stifles campus speech.
Some foreign Fulbright students are still waiting to hear about their visas for next academic year while applicants remain in the dark about their status. As the academic year comes to a close, international students in the U.S. as part of the Fulbright program usually turn to their advisers at the Institute of International Education, the nonprofit that administers Fulbright programs, for help with immigration paperwork. That can include signing off on visa renewals, helping students get authorization to work in the U.S. after graduation and even booking plane tickets home for those whose scholarships include travel costs.