SS Higher Education Trends

What are colleges’ legal options when threatened with federal funding cuts?

Higher education experts said colleges could work together or lean on their associations if they take up a legal fight against the Trump administration. 

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Colleges sue over Energy Department’s new 15% cap on indirect research costs

The policy would "devastate scientific research,” according to the plaintiffs, which include the American Council on Education and Brown University. 

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Harvard University won’t yield to Trump administration’s demands

Alan Garber, the Ivy League institution’s president, said the university wouldn’t forfeit its “independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

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Trump administration freezes $2.2B in Harvard University grants after demands refused

The move came shortly after the Ivy League institution’s president said it wouldn’t comply with a series of “unprecedented” mandates. 

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