President Trump has set his sights on defunding colleges, singling out some of the world’s wealthiest schools in what critics say is an attack on academic freedom.
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
The funding freezes are the latest and largest in a campaign against elite American universities that has resulted in roughly $3.3 billion in federal funds being suspended or put under review in just over a month.
A flier calling for the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University graduate student, and Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University, at the Tufts campus in Massachusetts.
Dr. Katrina Armstrong told a federal task force she could not remember details from the university’s report on antisemitism or her response to its recommendations.
Dozens of schools, including the University of California and Harvard, said the Trump administration ended the visas of their students in recent days. For many, the reasons are unclear.
Colleges and teaching hospitals are the cornerstones of the city’s economy — and identity. But federal funding cuts to higher education could change that.
Readers weigh in on the capitulation of the law firm Paul, Weiss to the Trump administration’s demands. Also: Beyond campus stereotypes; analog parenting.
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