Students and faculty are returning to institutions weakened by an administration campaign to reshape higher education ideologically and financially. The University of Utah Black student union lost funding and campus space, reflecting crackdowns on student groups and anti-diversity measures. Indiana public universities cut or merged more than 400 degree programs — about one-fifth of offerings — while many other schools made similar cuts as budgets tightened. Harvard and Columbia adopted policies treating certain criticism of Israel as antisemitism. New federal barriers threaten to sharply reduce international student enrollment. Nationwide consequences include research funding cuts, program closures, rising tuition, and deteriorating faculty labor conditions.
Students and faculty heading back to US colleges and universities from summer break are returning to bruised institutions reeling from the Trump administration's unprecedented campaign to bend higher education to its ideological will, and are bracing for more uncertainty ahead. At the University of Utah, the Black student union has lost its funding and campus space one of many student groups to face the brunt of Donald Trump's anti-diversity measures.
Indiana's public universities have cut or merged more than 400 degree programs, about one-fifth of their academic offerings, while scores of other universities have made similar cuts as their budgets are on the line. At Harvard and Columbia, certain forms of criticism of Israel will now be punishable as antisemitism. And across the country, schools will see their international student population plummet after the administration erected a host of new barriers to students seeking to travel to the US.
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