“I’ve seen it from the athlete side. I’ve seen it from the injury recovery side. And I’ve seen it from a coach’s standpoint,” Madison See, the Wildcats’ director of mental health for athletics, said.

At the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which relies heavily on federal support, a crisis response is underway and a reshaping of the institution feels inevitable.

The pressure campaign to try to force the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university to fall in line with President Trump’s agenda has sprawled beyond just one singular task force or agency.

The economist omits the worst example of the university declining to uphold its core values.

Leaders of Christian, historically Black and community colleges appeared before the Republican-controlled Senate committee. Democrats took the opportunity to argue against House GOP proposals, including cutting Pell. When Sen. Bill Cassidy, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, kicked off his broadly titled hearing Wednesday on “The State of Higher Education,” he mixed a critique of how much higher education costs students with a denunciation—now familiar from conservatives—of diversity, equity and inclusion. “This increased cost often is not going to improve education,” said Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican. “Often, those dollars are being funneled to promote a DEI ideology, dividing students based on race and ethnicity.”

The university’s board has ordered a sweeping walkback of ambitious diversity programs. But conservative critics say DEI lives on — and they’re pushing to oust President James E. Ryan.