Yale, Harvard Remove Employees as Trump Adds Pressure to Schools

The ADL quietly eliminated its anti-bias educational program

(RNS) — The Anti-Defamation League has fashioned itself as the “leading anti-hate organization in the world.” But these days, it appears to be focused mostly on fighting antisemitism specifically. Beginning in 2023, it phased out its signature anti-hate educational program, A World of Difference Institute, without formally announcing it, the magazine Jewish Currents first reported on March 27. In a statement, an ADL spokesperson acknowledged the…

Anti-Semitism in Universities Is Uncivil and Incompatible with Sound Education — Minding The Campus

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on PJ Media on March 14, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. The ideology of “social justice,” encompassing both critical race theory, extreme gender theory, and queer theory, has become the main administrative tool of universities, […] The post Anti-Semitism in Universities Is Uncivil and Incompatible with Sound E…

Tax reckoning coming for besieged universities - Washington Examiner

Universities thrown into turmoil by Trump administration funding cuts are now facing a new and possibly larger threat in the form of tax hikes from the Republican congressional majorities.  Republicans are weighing a major increase in the tax on big university endowments, as well as a raft of other measures to raise revenues from higher education.  LIST: THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS, ACTIONS, AND PROCLAMATIONS TRUMP HAS MADE AS PRESIDENT The GOP is moti…

Slaying the University Dragons

President Trump demanded simple actions from Columbia University to recoup the $400 million in federal grants that he had rescinded, actions which amounted to taking active steps to protect Jewish students on campus. The university presi...

Antisemitism Crackdown Shakes U.S. Ivy League Colleges

The Trump administration sparks a sweeping overhaul of American universities, targeting Yale, Harvard, and Columbia with unprecedented pressure. Officials demand stricter measures against antisemitism, threatening to cut billions in federal funding. This crackdown, escalating since early 2025, reshapes elite academia. Yale terminates Helyeh Doutaghi, a research scholar, after she refuses to cooperate with an investigation […]

The Trump administration threatens American universities because they allegedly do not protect Jewish students, and a fight against anti-Semitism must begin in Trump's own camp, writes Holocaust researcher Christopher Browning.