Katrina Armstrong is leaving the post a week after the university agreed to a list of demands from the White House.

Colleges are using surveillance videos and search warrants to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Experts say it’s a new frontier in campus security that could threaten civil liberties.

Harvard University has been under pressure by the Trump administration to follow directives related to diversity and combating antisemitism.

Only 19 percent of students at Howard University are Black men, whose enrollment levels at four-year colleges have plummeted across the board.

The Trump administration said she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.” Her friends and lawyers say all she did was co-author an essay critical of the war in Gaza.

Higher education cannot cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas.

To rebuild trust and resist interference, universities must look within.

The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.

Investing in scientific research and development is vital to U.S. security.

The federal government letter she received claimed research programs based on gender identity are “unscientific” and do “nothing to enhance the health of many Americans.”

Many of the agency’s offices and programs are codified in federal law, raising questions about how much McMahon can reduce the department without Congress. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has repeatedly pledged since taking office earlier this month to “get rid of the bureaucracy in education” and “fire herself.” “When [President Trump] asked me to serve as the secretary of education, I knew exactly what his mandate was—to close the Department of Education,” McMahon said Thursday on a New York radio station, adding that she plans to be “completely transparent with Congress.”

Following a contentious standoff with the Trump administration, Columbia University’s interim president, Katrina A. Armstrong, has resigned and is set to return to leading Columbia’s Irving Medical Center.