10/6/25: Higher Ed Sounds Off on Proposed Compact (Inside Higher Ed) The sector has overwhelmingly panned Trump’s plan to give preferential treatment to universities that commit to his policies. So have some conservative leaders. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2025/10/06/higher-ed-sounds-proposed-compact
See also: Trump’s Proposed ‘Compact’ Asks Colleges to Show They’re ‘Pursuing Federal Priorities’ (The Chronicle) https://www.chronicle.com/article/trumps-proposed-compact-asks-colleges-to-show-theyre-pursuing-federal-priorities
See also: The Trump Administration’s ‘Compact’ Is a Trap (The Chronicle, Opinion) https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-trump-administrations-compact-is-a-trap
See also: The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/billionaire-marc-rowan-trump-deal-universities.html
See also: A Deal That Would End Universities’ Independence (The Atlantic) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/higher-education-compact-trump-deal/684457/
10/6/25: Republicans and Democrats at an impasse as government shutdown enters sixth day (AP) Republican and Democratic lawmakers have provided few public signs of meaningful negotiations to break an impasse on reopening the federal government as the shutdown entered its sixth day on Monday. https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-trump-congress-7d7e6f9b4e52d05b692cc40ec6c96cf3
10/3/25: Calling a ‘code red,’ Newsom says universities must reject Trump’s compact (Politico) Gov. Gavin Newsom doubled down on a threat Friday to pull funding from California universities that sign onto a pact proposed by Donald Trump, calling the president’s efforts to make in-roads to higher education a “code red” for the state. Newsom, answering questions at University of California, Berkeley after he signed legislation to spur science research, said that there is “no choice” for schools that receive the proposition from Trump but to reject it. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/03/calling-a-code-red-newsom-says-universities-must-reject-trumps-compact-00593991
10/3/25: Trump Hit With First Lawsuit to Halt $100,000 H-1B Entry Fee (Bloomberg Law) A federal court should set aside a new $100,000 fee imposed on H-1B workers by the Trump administration, according to a lawsuit filed by a coalition of labor unions, health-care providers, academic groups, religious organizations, and individual visa holders. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/pharma-and-life-sciences/trump-hit-with-first-lawsuit-to-block-100-000-h-1b-entry-fee?context=search&index=11
10/2/25: Scientific Journals in the Hot Seat (Inside Higher Ed) Federal officials are raising long-standing concerns with research journals and the academic incentive structures propping them up. But experts say the government alone can’t overhaul the industry. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/10/02/scientific-publishing-industry-faces-federal
10/2/25: Federal Science on Pause Amid Shutdown (AIP) The federal government shut down on Wednesday for the first time since 2019, triggering a full stop for most research activities inside science agencies. Several of these agencies will furlough most of their staff while allowing work on external research grants to continue. Agency plans do not reference any permanent workforce reductions, which the White House directed agencies to consider in a memo last week. https://www.aip.org/fyi/federal-science-on-pause-amid-shutdown
