Trump Academia

A collection of articles curated by MESH from higher education magazines covering developments in research policy and university education under the Trump era in the US and elsewhere.

March 26, 2025
LeMonde
Alarm bells are sounding for academic freedom in the US and beyond
March 21, 2025
Scholars at Risk
SAR Academic Freedom Media Review, US Bulletin, March 7-21, 2025
March 14, 2025
CHE
Tracking Higher Ed’s Dismantling of DEI
March 7, 2025
The Atlantic
The Age of Anti-Woke Overreach
March 6, 2025
IHE
‘Whiplash’ and Dread Inside the Education Department
March 6, 2025
UWN
Petition to defend academic freedom against US interference
March 6, 2025
NYTimes
Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves
March 6, 2025
CHE
The Education Dept. Survives for Now, but Program and Staffing Cuts Cause Upheaval
March 5, 2025
IHE
Contract Cuts at Columbia Raise Concerns
February 28, 2025
UWN
DeSantis’ tech bros take aim at Florida’s universities
February 27, 2025
IHE
Higher Ed and the First 30 Days of the Trump Administration: The Key
February 26, 2025
IHE
The Policies, People and Surprises of Trump’s First 30 Days
February 26, 2025
CHE
‘There’s Tremendous Foreboding’: Four experts talk about Trump’s first month
February 25, 2025
CHE
New Ed. Dept. Guidance on Race and DEI Tells Colleges Which Programs It Might Consider Illegal
February 25, 2025
CHE
Universities Need to Defend Themselves, Not Remain Neutral
February 24, 2025
CHE
Hands Off Higher Ed! The sector is at war. It’s time to fight harder.
February 21, 2025
IHE
What Are College Presidents Saying About Trump? Not Much.
February 20, 2025
Nature
Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
February 20, 2025
UWN
‘Stop DEI’ order lacks force of law but set to sow chaos
February 19, 2025
IEH
Higher Ed Policy Groups Push Back on Trump’s Anti-DEI Guidance
February 18, 2025
CHE
Trump's Chaos is on Us: How Should Colleges Respond?
February 18, 2025
IHE
After Sweeping Anti-DEI Guidance, What Should Colleges Do?
February 18, 2025
CHE
Trump’s Agenda to Hurt Higher Education
February 18, 2025
UWN
Civil rights investigations in colleges grind to a halt
February 18, 2025
UWN
Universities ordered to end DEI programmes within two weeks
February 14, 2025
NYTimes
Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts.
February 12, 2025
IHE
Why Are Campuses Quiet and College Leaders Silent When U.S. Democracy Is in Crisis?
February 11, 2025
IHE
GOP State Lawmakers Targeting DEI and Tenure Again
February 10, 2025
CHE
Review: What İS Chris Rufo Doing in the Education Department
February 8, 2025
Slate
Say Something For heads of institutions, it’s all too tempting to do what’s easy.
February 5, 2025
CHE
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Sparks Panic, Protests, and ICE Impersonators
February 5, 2025
CHE
‘It’s Creating Chaos’: College Presidents Weigh Responses to Trump’s Upheavals
February 5, 2025
IHE
Scapegoating DEI: Silence Is Complicity
February 5, 2025
IHE
Higher Ed Fights Back Against Trump’s DEI Order
February 4, 2025
CHE
Higher Ed Is Trapped in Trump’s Chaos
February 3, 2025
CHE
Daily Briefing: DEI's Bellwether University
February 3, 2025
IHE
Trump Planning EO Directing Education Department to ‘Diminish Itself,’ Reports Say
February 3, 2025
The Washington Post
Diversity officers and professors sue to block Trump’s DEI orders
February 3, 2025
CHE
Trump's antisemitism executive order — how threatening is it?
January 31, 2025
IHE
10 Days In: What Actions Has Trump Taken?
January 31, 2025
CHE
No, We’re Not in a New McCarthy Era
January 30, 2025
CHE
Florida University System Approves a New Gen-Ed Curriculum After Law Restricted ‘Exploratory’ Content
January 30, 2025
CHE
What Will Trump Mean For Higher Ed?
January 29, 2025
CHE
How Florida Scrubbed 'Identity Politics' From Universities' General-Education Curricula
January 24, 2025
IHE
Scientists Worried After Trump Halts NIH Grant Reviews
January 24, 2025
IHE
AAUP Opposes ‘Anticipatory Obedience’ to Trump, GOP
January 23, 2025
IHE
Trump Takes Aim at DEI in Higher Ed
January 23, 2025
CHE
Here’s How Science Funding Could Change Under Trump
January 22, 2025
CHE
In Hungary, U.S. Conservatives See an Unlikely Model for Higher-Ed Reform
January 21, 2025
CHE
The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation
January 21, 2025
CHE
Trump Has Issued a Blitz of Executive Orders. Some Could Affect Higher Ed.
January 21, 2025
CHE
Students and Educators Challenge Anti-DEI Law in Court
January 20, 2025
THE
Will universities still feel free to debate social justice under Trump?
January 16, 2025
Florida Today
An alarming overreach': Florida professors sue over DeSantis-signed DEI restrictions
January 16, 2025
CHE
‘There Needs to Be a Rousing Defense of the Sector’
January 15, 2025
CHE
Why Hungary Inspired Trump’s Vision for Higher Ed
January 11, 2025
Science
Editorial: A direct hit
January 8, 2025
UWN
Higher education groups sue Trump over dismantling of DEI
January 7, 2025
CHE
Institutional Neutrality Is a Copout
December 4, 2024
CHE
Texas orders restrictions on colleges’ ties to China and other “adversarial” countries
December 3, 2024
IHE
Higher Ed Unionization Boomed Under Biden. Will That Change Under Trump?
November 27, 2024
IHE
Louisiana Governor Calls on LSU to Punish Professor for Alleged Anti-Trump Speech
November 27, 2024
UWN
Universities risk becoming tinned food with an expiry date
November 26, 2024
CHE
Trump’s Vision for College Accreditation Could Shake Up the Sector
November 26, 2024
CHE
Why Did More College-Educated Young Men Vote for Trump This Year?
November 25, 2024
Guardian
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
November 25, 2024
CHE
The Review: Post-election analysis: Whither academic freedom now?
November 25, 2024
CHE
When Aspiring Authoritarians Seize Faculty Power
November 24, 2024
UWN
Texas university faculty resist ‘vague’ anti-DEI censorship
November 20, 2024
UWN
How Project 2025 could reshape US HE for Asian students
November 19, 2024
CHE
A Former Trump Cabinet Official and Pro-Wrestling Magnate Is Tapped as Education Secretary
November 19, 2024
IHE
What’s at Stake for Science as Trump Returns
November 18, 2024
Chronicle
The Review: Is Texas where academic freedom will finally die?
November 18, 2024
UWN
Forum: The Campus in the Second Era of Trump
November 18, 2024
Chronicle
How a Top Trump Adviser Might Influence the President-Elect’s Views on Higher Ed
November 18, 2024
IHE
As Trump Threatens Deportations, Campus Leaders Tread Carefully
November 15, 2024
THE
Colleges on defensive as Trump stirs international student fears
November 15, 2024
IHE
Trump Likely to End Title IX Trans Protections
November 14, 2024
IHE
Republicans, Back in Charge of Congress, Aim to Increase Higher Ed Accountability
November 13, 2024
IHE
Trump Picks McMahon as Education Secretary
November 13, 2024
UWN
Specifics aside, Trump’s rule will mean less global exchange
November 13, 2024
CDB
Daily Briefing: The red wave makes ripples
November 13, 2024
CHE
Latitudes: What Trump 2.0 means for international education
November 12, 2024
IHE
5 Questions for Trinity Washington’s Outspoken President and Trump Critic
November 12, 2024
CHE
How Professors Handled Classes After the Election
November 11, 2024
CHE
What Will Trump’s Second Victory Mean For Higher Ed?
November 11, 2024
CHE
Calling all courageous leaders
November 8, 2024
UWN
The second Trump term: Higher education braces for impact
November 8, 2024
UWN
Trump’s victory causes steep spike in study abroad inquiries
November 7, 2024
Science/Business
Assessing the Trump factor in US science: fear and uncertainty
November 7, 2024
AAUP
AAUP President: Higher Ed Must Organize
November 7, 2024
CHE
What does Trump 2.0 mean?
November 6, 2024
CHE
What Trump’s Threats of Mass Deportation Could Mean for Higher Ed
November 6, 2024
IHE
What Trump’s Victory Means for Higher Ed
November 6, 2024
THE
US universities nervously await second Donald Trump term
November 2, 2024
CHE
On the Eve of a Tight Election, Higher Ed Is Holding Its Breath
November 1, 2024
IHE
Defending Democracy, Defending the University
October 10, 2024
CHE
Article collection on political fights against education
July 24, 2024
UWN
Project 2025 maps Trump’s ‘authoritarian agenda’ for HE
June 12, 2024
CHE
the Assault on DEI