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The move would be a major escalation of the Trump administration’s attempts to choke off federal money and support for the leading research university.

The university’s willingness to stand up to the Trump administration can be a model.

Researchers who have lost funds warned of long-term repercussions, but several said their school should still refuse to comply with the federal government.

With transfers at an all-time high, coaches are doing away with the annual scrimmage in a bid to keep their rosters intact.

The Trump administration skipped over requirements, including offering to hold a hearing, when applying financial penalties related to civil rights violations.

The Department of Homeland Security threatened to revoke Harvard’s certification to admit foreign students if the school did not hand over some student records.

The White House overplayed its hand, leaving schools with no choice but to fight back.

The Department of Homeland Security Secretary also announced the termination of two grants totaling more than $2.7 million to Harvard.

The school has been a pillar in the Gaffney community for 179 years.

The professoriate doesn’t demographically represent the U.S.—or the college student—population. The government’s anti-DEI crusade threatens efforts to address that. Before Donald Trump retook office, advocates of a more demographically diverse U.S. professoriate were already criticizing existing hiring efforts as inadequate. One late-2022 paper in Nature Human Behaviour noted that, at recent rates, “higher education will never achieve demographic parity among tenure-track faculty.”

Giving in to the administration’s demands would have been ruinous.