As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.
The administration doubled down against Harvard, asserting that rising violent crime on campus meant the school should not host international students. It will also review the school’s patents.
The Trump administration has ended about $500 million for the Los Angeles-based university. The president said he wanted nearly double that to restart the flow of funds.
May Mailman is credited as an animating force behind a strategy that has intimidated independent institutions and undercut years of medical and scientific research.
A federal lawsuit accuses 32 elite universities of violating antitrust laws by using early decision admissions to inflate prices and reduce competition.
Universities have faced financial pressure from a potential 30-40% decline in international enrollment due to State Department visa interview pauses and new vetting protocols.
“We feel it is better in the long term to stand up to Trump administration threats, both for our university and higher education nationally,” the letter reads.
The long-standing practice of geographic recruitment is now under scrutiny by the Trump administration, which claims it can be unlawfully used as a proxy for race. The ways in which colleges decide whom to accept in their incoming classes have recently come under increased scrutiny from the Trump administration, which has used settlements, a memo and an executive action to pressure colleges to change their admissions practices. Those directives reflect the administration’s focus on ensuring what they call merit in the process, as well as an effort to expand the Supreme Court’s decision banning race-conscious admissions to bar any type of race-based programming or activities.