10/15/25: The Logical End Point of Trump’s Higher-Education Agenda (The Atlantic) Since taking office, President Donald Trump has attacked colleges and universities using such a bewildering range of tools—civil-rights investigations, research-funding recissions, student-loan cuts, visa bans—that it’s hard to keep track of what the White House is trying to reform or destroy. But the new higher-education compact offered to universities by the administration strongly suggests that Trump’s higher-education agenda, if successful, will result in a far less diverse academy, with fewer Black and Latino students. It will do this by demanding that colleges adopt an admissions system based purely on test scores and GPA—and accusing any institution that resists of illegal racial preferences. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/trump-admissions-compact-diversity/684558/
10/15/25: Most of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored (Inside Higher Ed) As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organizations reported . https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/15/majority-harvards-research-funding-has-been-restored
10/14/25: CSU Campuses Reel From Blow to HSI Funding (Inside Higher Ed) The Trump administration’s death blow to funds for minority-serving institutions is expected to cost the California State University system tens of millions of dollars. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/institutions/minority-serving-institutions/2025/10/14/csu-campuses-reel-blow-hsi-funding
10/14/25: Inside the Trump Administration’s Assault on Higher Education (The New Yorker) Over the past nine months, the Administration has waged an effective, unrelenting assault on higher education. D.E.I. programs have been dismantled nationwide….The Administration has also pledged to abolish the Department of Education altogether—a long-held goal among conservative activists, who believe education should be managed locally. “They can’t repeal the department,” James Kvaal, Biden’s Under-Secretary of Education, told me. “So they’re vandalizing it.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/20/inside-the-trump-administrations-assault-on-higher-education
10/13/25: China and the US have long collaborated in ‘open research.’ Some in Congress say that must change (AP) For many years, American and Chinese scholars worked shoulder to shoulder on cutting-edge technologies through open research, where findings are freely shared and accessible to all. But that openness, a long-standing practice celebrated for advancing knowledge, is raising alarms among some U.S. lawmakers. https://apnews.com/article/united-states-china-academic-research-congress-53ee311ea07f6ceccee4a7fe99f0857d
