In a House hearing, lawmakers scrutinized a set of college leaders from institutions outside the Ivy League schools that have drawn the Trump administration’s attention.
Johnson & Wales University is addressing its budgetary deficit by eliminating 91 positions, or 5% of staff and faculty, online and on its Charlotte and Providence, Rhode Island, campuses.
The presidents of Cal Poly, DePaul and Haverford avoided the major missteps seen in earlier hearings, while Democrats directed their criticisms toward the Trump administration. Two of three college presidents emerged largely unscathed from a three-plus-hour congressional hearing Wednesday that framed antisemitism as a rampant problem on campuses across the U.S.