"Students, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump administration's assault on higher education on Friday the first in a planned series of nationwide, coordinated protests that organizers hope will culminate in large-scale students and workers' strikes next May Day and a nationwide general strike in May 2028. The day of action was organized under the banner of Students Rise Up, a network of students including both local groups and national organizations like Sunrise Movement and Campus Climate Network."
"Protesters called on university administrators and elected officials to denounce the president's months-long effort to force US universities to abide by its ideological priorities and urged them to reject Trump's compact, which would give universities preferential access to federal funding in exchange for a commitment to advance the administration's conservative agenda. Only one university, New College of Florida a public school that state legislators have turned into a bastion of conservatism has so far accepted it."
More than 100 campuses across the United States held coordinated rallies opposing the Trump administration's effort to impose ideological priorities on higher education. The protests were organized under Students Rise Up, which includes local groups and national organizations such as Sunrise Movement and Campus Climate Network. Faculty and educational workers' unions joined students, calling on university administrators and elected officials to reject a compact that ties preferential federal funding to advancing the administration's conservative agenda. Protesters demanded affordable education, protections for transgender and international students, divestment from weapons manufacturers and Israel, refusal to collaborate with ICE, and safeguards for gender-affirming housing.
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