University of Utah professor Marshall Steinbaum says American higher education should be reformed so we don’t have well-funded colleges for rich students and underfunded ones that lower-income people attend.

University of Utah professor Marshall Steinbaum says American higher education should be reformed so we don’t have well-funded colleges for rich students and underfunded ones that lower-income people attend.

The people who brought you “Project 2025” sure seem to be ramping up an attack on equality in higher ed.

Republicans are claiming that one of the victims of the Brown University shooting was targeted because of her politics. There’s no evidence of that. And yet, it has become a dominant narrative online.

Millions of people will be forced back into debt repayment.

From Oklahoma to Indiana to Alabama, state schools are bending over backward—suspending student magazines and even disciplining instructors—to preemptively satisfy the Trump administration.

University of Iowa sociology professor Louise Seamster says that the administration’s changes to financial aid policies are going to make our colleges less racially and economically diverse.

University of Iowa sociology professor Louise Seamster says that the administration’s changes to financial aid policies are going to make our colleges less racially and economically diverse.

James Ryan spilled the tea on his ouster and the Trump administration’s attacks on the University of Virginia.

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

All it took was a hidden camera, a very-online elected Republican, and Libs of TikTok.

UMass Amherst journalism historian Kathy Roberts Forde says the news media has helped both entrench and erode authoritarianism in the U.S. in the past and should lean into its pro-democracy history now.

The Trump administration’s moves against colleges are part of its broader antidemocratic campaign against independent institutions and sources of power. Liberals must defend universities to defend democracy.

How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.

Yes, they’re under pressure. But maybe a lot of these leaders kinda like what Trump’s doing. Just remember: Trump was defeated once before.

The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland by schools that have a lot more going for them than football.

The university continues to cede control to Donald Trump.

Harvard has quietly deleted the websites for centers serving minority and women student groups.

Ryan had not fought Trump on DEI and other matters. His forced ouster proves that no capitulation is enough.

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.