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Trump Wants to Pull Harvard’s Tax Exemption. Can He?
President Donald Trump is escalating his campaign to pressure elite universities into making a wide range of policy changes ...
Tracking Trump’s war on elite universities: Which schools have lost funding and what they're doing about it
Harvard lost more than $2 billion in federal grants by refusing to comply with the president's demands. These other ...
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How Things Fell Apart at the U. of Pennsylvania After the Antisemitism Hearing
A new book by the former chair of Penn’s Board of Trustees offers an inside look at the drama and big-donor influence that ...
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Harvard v Trump – White House cancels billions in university grants
Institutions of higher education in the U.S. have become the most recent target of President Donald Trump’s administration.
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University Of Pennsylvania Found In Violation Of Title IX: Allowing Men In Women’s Sports, Facilities
Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced its finding that the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) violated Title IX of ...
Harvard and Trump administration face off in court over threats to cut federal funds
The case will be heard by Judge Allison Burroughs, a Barack Obama appointee and University of Pennsylvania Law School ...
Federal funding freeze on nation’s oldest university likely to stay in place well into summer after first court hearing
More than $2 billion in federal funds committed to Harvard University are likely to stay frozen by the Trump administration ...
Penn State’s plan to close some Commonwealth campuses gets pushback from faculty and two trustees
The president of Penn State's chapter of the American Association of University professors and trustees Jay Paterno and Ted ...
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Professors fight PSU campus closures
The Penn State Chapter of the American Association of University Professors on Wednesday sent a letter to university President Neeli Bendapudi and the university’s board of directors objecting to the ...
College presidents, including Penn’s Jameson, sign statement critical of Trump administration’s ‘undue government intrusion’
Villanova, Temple, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr also signed the statement speaking out against the Trump administration's ...
Stefanik calls for fed probe of NY school district for ‘direct violation’ of Trump’s order on trans athletes
Our daughters should not be forced to compete against biological men in competitive sports or share a locker room with ...
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Trump admin’s oops moment: Policy change letter to Harvard University was ‘mistake’
(Getty Images via AFP) In yet another ‘oops’ moment for the Donald Trump's administration, the letter it shot to the Harvard University last Friday (April 11) demanding policy changes was sent ...