Feng Tao, who was tenured at the University of Kansas, was cleared of charges brought under a discontinued Trump program aimed at Chinese spying.

A leader on the front lines of the civil-rights movement, he was stoic in the face of dehumanizing behavior, but felt it all.

Universities are tightening their belts and reducing graduate student enrollments to steel themselves for potential Trump administration funding cuts.

“I’m certainly not taking a position on any political issue,” the university president said of his letter supporting Linda McMahon.

It's total warfare on all aspects of higher education

Despite court orders blocking Trump’s federal funding freeze, bans on DEI and other executive mandates, academic researchers are still in the dark on what all of it could mean for their careers and the pace of scientific discovery. Although federal judges have temporarily blocked many of President Donald Trump’s plans to overhaul the government through executive action, academic researchers who rely on federal grants say business is still far from usual.

The document, describing the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil-rights law, says that cultural events are probably fine, while identity-based housing and student-support efforts probably aren’t.