“I think this is the greatest fear in civil society, including in the higher education system, since the McCarthy era.” Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University.

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March 7.   Marina Dunbar & Joseph Gedeon: Trump administration cancels $400m in funds to Columbia University: Government alleges university failed to protect Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian protests on campus.

March 12.   Calder McHugh: A College President Gets Real About Trump’s Attack on Universities: Wesleyan University President Michael Roth lets loose on Trump’s executive orders and the detention of Mahmoud Khalil.

March 14.   Colin Binkley: More than 50 universities face federal investigations as part of Trump’s anti-DEI campaign.

March 17.   Jason Stanley: Trump is setting the US on a path to educational authoritarianism.

March 25.   Rashid Khalidi: Does Columbia still merit the name of a university?

April 3.   CTV News: ‘Pervasive culture of fear’: This Yale professor is planning to move to Canada.

April 6.   NPR: How Princeton University is navigating the loss of federal funding.

April 8.   The New York Times: Trump Administration Freezes $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern.