"The swiftness and severity with which the Trump Administration has tried to impose its will on higher education came as a shock to many, not least university presidents and faculties from Harvard to U.C.L.A. But for conservatives this arena of cultural conflict has been a long time coming. The staff writer Emma Green has been speaking with influential figures in the current Administration as well as in the larger conservative movement about how they mapped out this battle for Donald Trump's return to power."
""There's a recognition among the people that I interviewed," Green tells David Remnick, "that the Administration cannot come in and script to universities: this is what you will teach and this is the degrees that you will offer, and just script it from top to bottom. First of all, that would be not legally possible. And it also, I think in some ways, violates core instincts that conservatives have around academic freedom,""
Federal officials and conservative activists have moved rapidly to confront higher education, using legal and funding tools to challenge curricula, campus practices, and diversity initiatives. University presidents and faculties experienced surprise at the speed and severity of the actions. Conservative strategists framed the effort as long-planned, seeking to limit federal funding for programs viewed as promoting racism, hierarchies, or harassment while asserting respect for academic freedom. Administration voices acknowledged legal limits on directly scripting curricula and emphasized conditional funding and regulatory enforcement as primary levers of influence and accountability.
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