“The Trump administration has proposed stripping private schools of their tax-exempt status if they consider race, furthering the administration’s intense pressure on institutions that have sought diversity in their classrooms,” the Washington Post reports.
Trump Attacks Bar Association’s Power Over Law Schools
“The Trump administration is opening a new front in its campaign to remake higher education: threatening the American Bar Association’s power to accredit law schools,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The action escalates the Trump administration’s long-running feud with the nation’s premier legal organization, which it has accused of promoting a progressive agenda, including pushing law schools to adopt diversity, equity and inclusion policies.”
America’s Colleges Are Hurtling Toward an Enrollment Cliff
“Higher education is hitting a demographic cliff. After years of growth, the pipeline of 18-year-olds is dwindling—a result of lower birthrates,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The largest number of Americans born in a single year arrived on campus in the autumn of 2025, and now a falloff is looming. College enrollments are forecast to drop 13% by 2041… In some parts of the country—especially the Midwest and the Northeast—the declines have already begun.”
Whistleblower Says Ivy Probes Lacked Evidence
“The Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism on Ivy League campuses pressured universities into punitive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence of systemic abuse, according to a whistleblower complaint made public Tuesday,” the Washington Post reports.
“The complaint — filed by Haley Van Erem, a former career attorney in the Justice Department’s civil rights division who said she was involuntarily detailed to work on the probes last year — alleged that the outcomes of investigations into schools like Harvard, Brown and Columbia were ‘predetermined without regard to the evidence’ in a ‘politically mandated effort’ to suspend their government funding and grab headlines.”
CBS News: Former DOJ lawyer alleges government improperly targeted Ivy League schools.
Inside Trump’s College Sports Lobbying Push
“President Donald Trump has a new legislative obsession: College sports,” Semafor reports.
“The president is getting closely involved in efforts to pass the Senate’s bipartisan college sports bill. He’s spent the last week whipping senators to support it and even enlisted former Alabama football coach Nick Saban to dial up undecided lawmakers.”
“Trump has become a fan-in-chief during his second term, attending the Super Bowl, the U.S. Open tennis finals, and the FIFA World Cup Finals, among other events. But his latest effort is bigger than the athletic focus that helped him appeal to younger voters in 2024 — it’s a legacy play that would put his stamp on the multibillion-dollar college sports economy.”
Trump Takes Aim at Diversity Scholarships
“The Trump administration plans to revamp a federally funded career website that lists hundreds of college scholarships for women and students of color to align it with the president’s mission to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs,” the Washington Post reports.
Trump to Deregulate Head Start
“The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would move forward with a plan to eliminate hundreds of federal regulations governing Head Start, in what advocates fear is a push to gut a 61-year-old antipoverty program aimed at helping the nation’s most impoverished young children,” the New York Times reports.
Trump Purges Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs
“The Trump administration’s sweeping grant cuts are hitting sexual abstinence programs long favored by Republicans,” Politico reports.
“Earlier this summer, the administration abruptly terminated tens of millions in funding for groups teaching children and teenagers about how to prevent pregnancy and sexually-transmitted infections.”
Trump Plans to Upend Head Start
“The Trump administration is preparing a major rollback of federal requirements for Head Start, a change that supporters of the child care program fear could gut its longstanding antipoverty mission,” the New York Times reports.
“The proposed changes would remove most of Head Start’s 133 pages of requirements for math and literacy curriculums, class sizes, medical screenings, home visits and even a requirement that children brush their teeth after meals.”
Trump’s Effort to Gut Education Rebuked by Senators
“The Trump administration’s bid to dismantle the Education Department was rebuked on Thursday by the Senate education committee, which approved a bipartisan bill that would block the executive branch from gutting the agency,” the New York Times reports.
“The legislation faces a long road to becoming law. Competing legislation in the House would instead codify many of the administration’s actions, and President Trump is unlikely to sign into law a measure that directly undermines his policy agenda.”
Politico: Senate education committee blocks parts of Trump’s Education Department breakup.
Trump Considers $100K Fee On Foreign Graduates
“The Trump administration is considering attaching a $100,000 price tag on international students’ ability to work in the U.S. after they graduate from an American university, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that would make it much less attractive for foreigners to study in the U.S,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“If enacted, the fee would significantly advance President Trump’s efforts to restrict nearly all forms of legal immigration. It would particularly harm universities, which rely on recruiting international students as a reliable source of revenue, as well as to top Silicon Valley and Wall Street firms, which disproportionately hire international college graduates to fill technical roles.”
Trump Shifts Research Funds to AI
“The Trump administration plans to accelerate its overhaul of federal research by supporting more individual scientists and the use of artificial intelligence rather than universities, its latest attempt to accelerate technological discovery to combat China,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“In a new report and memo released Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy argues individual scientists can help the nation move faster to use AI in scientific research. The directives from the office will help shape a roughly $200 billion annual federal research and development budget across the government for the rest of President Trump’s second term.”
“The new guidance could further hurt large universities that rely on federal research funding.”
Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer Ph.D.s
“The number of students admitted to Ph.D. programs this fall dropped 15 percent from the previous year, according to data from over 50 top research universities, raising fears that the nation’s capacity to produce new science could be diminished,” the New York Times reports.
“The decline is driven, in part, by a chaotic and unpredictable federal funding environment under the Trump administration, as federal cuts are promised and then reversed, and budgets remain unclear.”
UC Berkeley to Open Nancy Pelosi Institute
“The University of California, Berkeley plans to launch a new institute named for Nancy Pelosi and intended to strengthen democracy,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Called the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy, it will be a nonpartisan center for research, teaching and civic engagement, the school said. Berkeley has raised $35 million toward a $50 million goal for the institute, with Pelosi donating an undisclosed amount.”
New Student Loan Rules Take Effect July 1
“Borrowers face substantial changes to student loans beginning next month, including fewer repayment options under President Trump’s tax-and-spending law and the final death blow for the dismantled SAVE plan,” Axios reports.
“Why it matters: Millions of borrowers must pick a new repayment plan, and some will face tighter borrowing caps and higher repayments.”
Texas Approves Required Reading List with Bible Stories
“The state education board in Texas approved a required reading list for K-12 students on Friday that includes several Bible passages — part of a wider state push from the right to include Christian teachings in the classroom,” NOTUS reports.
Yale Opens Settlement Talks with Trump
“The Trump administration is conducting a far-reaching investigation into whether Yale University’s admissions practices violate anti-discrimination laws, prompting one of the country’s most elite schools to pursue settlement talks with the government,” the New York Times reports.
“The Justice Department last month accused Yale’s medical school of giving illegal preferential treatment to Black and Hispanic applicants. But the department’s review is reaching beyond the medical school, the people said, encompassing undergraduate and law school admissions as well.”
Pro-MAGA Groups Spur Trump Push for Cultural Change
New York Times: “Of the more than 70 investigations into transgender school policies that the Education Department has announced since last year, about one-fourth have been based on complaints from nonprofit groups with ties to the Trump administration. Many of the investigations have been aimed at blocking transgender women from playing on female sports teams.”
“If federal investigators determine that schools have broken civil rights laws, educators face a choice. They can adopt the Trump administration’s policy prescriptions on gender and diversity, or fight the findings and risk losing federal funding.”
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