White House’s Aggressive Tactics Are Complicating Its Education Agenda

The Trump administration alienated many elite schools in its latest effort to overhaul higher education, so it looked elsewhere for allies.

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White House’s Aggressive Tactics Are Complicating Its Education Agenda

The Trump administration alienated many elite schools in its latest effort to overhaul higher education, so it looked elsewhere for allies.

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University of Virginia Won’t Join White House’s Compact for Colleges

It was the fifth school in a matter of days to refuse an offer of preferential funding treatment from the government, even as the White House has threatened schools that do not sign up.

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Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.

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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

The Trump administration offered nine universities benefits in exchange for signing an agreement to protect conservative voices, among other things. M.I.T. was the first to refuse.

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Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

Separately, in the administration’s first 200 days, only two of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior jobs in government were Black.

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Trump Asked Universities to Sign a Compact. Some See a Trap.

Trump officials want universities to sign on to conservative priorities to get special treatment. Some in higher education say agreeing would end academic freedom.

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Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender.

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University of Virginia Appoints Interim President After Ouster

The university is turning to a former law school dean to lead the school as it faces pressure from Republicans in both Virginia and Washington, D.C.

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Inside the Conservative Campaign That Took Down the U.Va. President

The Jefferson Council had called for eliminating D.E.I., without much success. But a new lawyer with ties to the group took on the cause for the Trump administration.

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