"Those places have been early targets in the Trump administration's ongoing effort to bring colleges and universities to heel. Funding cutoffs, intrusive demands for data and investigations have made life pretty difficult for those universities and some others. In addition, they have had to confront the excruciating choice of whether to defy the administration's demands or try to reach a settlement."
"While some college presidents have publicly condemned what the administration has been doing, many other college and university leaders have tried to keep their heads down, to say nothing or do nothing to join with and support places that have been prominent on the administration's hit list. But the days of duck and cover in American higher education may be coming to a close."
Elite universities such as Columbia, Harvard and UCLA have faced targeted pressure from the Trump administration through funding cutoffs, intrusive data demands and investigations. Those institutions have confronted difficult choices about whether to resist or settle. Budgets have been squeezed, adjustments made, and reputations and careers damaged. Many university leaders have remained silent while some publicly condemned the tactics. The administration moved to tie research grants and other federal benefits to institutional pledges on admissions, hiring, governance, tuition freezes, caps on international students and strict gender definitions, seeking new leverage over higher education.
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