The Trump administration is leaning away from dramatic funding cuts and settlements with universities, and more toward standard tactics to try to limit funding.
- Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
Harvard University is the latest school that is nearing an expensive settlement with the Trump administration. The different deals are complex, but share a few similarities.
While Columbia University can afford to pay the government $200 million in order to unfreeze federal grants and contracts it was awarded, many other universities and colleges could not.
Though largely political and symbolic, the campus free speech order that President Trump issued matters because it ties millions of federal research dollars to how well colleges protect free speech.
A provocative new documentary, ‘Starving the Beast,’ blames the condition of higher ed on right-wing policies. A scholar argues that the film ignores a long history that has led to current crisis.
Underfunding has created incentives for colleges and universities to enroll nonresidents. But those that take a high number of poor students are on the verge of closure.
College education results in not just better earnings, but better health care and child development as well as political stability and lower criminal justice costs. Should states invest more?
State support for public research universities declined by 28 percent between 2003 and 2013. So, why does it matter?
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