Education groups sue Trump administration over Columbia funding battle

Columbia's compromise with Trump

Before his election victory last year, Donald Trump’s plans for education were striking in their vagueness. Rather than publishing detailed policies, he promised to make universities “patriotic” and “sane” after years of liberal excess. Since his return to the White House, however, the President’s ideas on higher education have become vividly clear. To date, these have largely taken the form of threats. Over the past few months, Trump has issued…

Trump’s $400 million showdown with Columbia won’t fix US universities - Washington Examiner

The Trump administration announced earlier this month that it would revoke $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University, punishing the school for allegedly allowing antisemitism to flourish on campus and failing to protect Jewish students.  The administration sent a letter to the university’s interim president outlining actions the university must take “as a precondition for formal negotiations regarding Columbia Universit…

ICYMI: Trump Moves to Shift Special Ed Oversight And More

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Iowa school shows leadership where others have not

Drake University President Marty Martin. (Photo courtesy of Drake University)As the president, governors and legislators elevate the stress and anxiety in higher education in the United States by seeking to change how colleges and universities operate and what they teach, the contrast between how an Ivy League school and an Iowa university responded shows the courage gap among college leaders. Columbia University, the 270-year-old private, non-p…

More Than 600 Harvard Faculty Urge Governing Boards To Resist Demands From Trump

More than 600 Harvard faculty signed a letter to Harvard’s governing boards urging the University to publicly condemn attacks on universities and defy orders that interfere with its independence.

Cal Thomas: Why are top universities getting federal money?

Columbia University at first appeared to have surrendered to President Trump’s demands that the New York school stop coddling antisemitic and anti-Israel demonstrators. The school announced it was buckling, not on principle, but because it wants the $400 million in federal grants and contracts restored. Trump had frozen the money to get them to act against protesters. Now the protesters are protesting what Columbia’s interim president, Katrina A…