Harvard Nears a Deal With the Trump Administration to Restore Funding

A potential $500 million settlement would end a monthslong battle that pitted the nation’s wealthiest school against the Trump administration’s extraordinary crackdown on higher education.

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Trump Administration Finds Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law

The university had recently restarted talks with the White House regarding a potential deal after months of fighting in court.

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Top American Academics Flock to Toronto as Trump Threatens U.S. Colleges

The University of Toronto has attracted several U.S. professors amid turmoil between American higher-education institutions and the Trump administration.

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What Happens to Harvard if Trump Successfully Bars Its International Students?

If President Trump makes good on all his threats, Harvard may lose much of its influence and prestige. It could also become even harder to afford.

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Yale’s Endowment Selling Private Equity Stakes as Trump Targets Ivies

The university is selling multiple stakes in private-equity funds as the industry struggles and Trump targets Ivy-League Institutions.

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Republican Tax Plan Could Hurt at Least 58 Colleges

A plan for a hefty new tax on university endowments was crafted to target “woke” schools, lawmakers said. But a small Kansas college and a Texas medical school might also be hit.

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‘We Are the Most Rejected Generation’

There’s a cost to making it so hard to be a young person right now.

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How Dartmouth Has Avoided Trump’s Retribution So Far

Dartmouth College is not on the Trump administration’s target lists and its funding remains intact, unlike the rest of its peers. Its president may be why.

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Trump Battles Universities, but Especially Harvard and the Ivy League

Beyond the politics is a brew of resentment and reverence that the president, an Ivy League graduate himself, has long harbored for a club that has never accepted him.

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Trump Recasts Mission of Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Office, Prompting ‘Exodus’

Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are fleeing the arm of the agency that defends constitutional rights, which appointees intend to reshape to enact President Trump’s agenda.

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