Month: April 2025

CHICAGO, IL., April 24, 2025, public institutions within the Big Ten Conference announced a unified pact to coordinate legal and policy responses to federal directives perceived as encroachments on academic freedom. Backed by eight of the fourteen universities—including Michigan State…

WASHINGTON, DC., April 23, 2025 — Declaring that America’s “gatekeepers of $100 billion in federal student aid” have drifted from their mission, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to overhaul the college-accreditation system.…

News Release by The American Association of Colleges and Universities, April 22, 2025 As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education.…

CAMBRIDGE, MA., April 22, 2025 — In an unprecedented clash over academic freedom and institutional autonomy, Harvard University has refused to implement a series of policy changes demanded by the Trump administration, prompting the federal government to suspend more than…

BETHESDA, MD., April 21, 2025 —In a decisive move to bolster a new take on civil-rights enforcement, the National Institutes of Health on April 21, 2025 issued Notice NOT-OD-25-090, applying a new term and condition to all new, renewal, supplement,…