In return, the White House would restore some of the more than $400 million in federal research funding it canceled, according to people familiar with ongoing discussions.

The highest ideals of higher ed are under mortal threat.

The Jefferson Council had called for eliminating D.E.I., without much success. But a new lawyer with ties to the group took on the cause for the Trump administration.

Mr. Trump’s ideological war on universities is putting students, professors and scientists under pressure. That could undermine the global dominance that American science has enjoyed for decades.

The federal cap on the amounts people can borrow means some of them will fall short. That’s especially true for students in professional schools.

Like many college towns, the area around the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been transformed by a surge of foreign students. Visa clampdowns could threaten that.

President Trump’s tax-and-spending law includes new restrictions on how much students can borrow and how they repay, as Republicans try to force colleges to curb their prices.

The administration is trying to make good on Trump’s campaign promise to use accreditation, a critical stamp of approval for colleges, to remake higher education.

Experts say the wave in hiring of Title VI staff mirrors a similar surge in the early 2010s, when institutions changed how they respond to Title IX complaints. Following the recent surge of complaints of antisemitism and Islamophobia on college campuses—and increased scrutiny from the federal government—more and more universities are creating new jobs to lead the institutions’ response to these complaints.

About 20 institutions banded together to lobby Congress on why their endowments should be left alone.