“Students planning to renew a pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University were met with a swift response from school administrators,” USA Today reports.

“University public safety officials said they would ‘immediately take steps to remove tents or other structures’ and would instruct protesters to disperse, according to a campus email sent late on April 23. Those who refused to disperse would be identified and sanctioned, including the possibility of ‘removal from campus and possible arrest.'”

“The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at one of America’s most prominent universities, is facing a challenge unlike any in its 152-year history,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Students—particularly those without U.S. citizenship—are asking to have their names removed from articles for fear of backlash by immigration officials.”

“Some requests are simple: Take down a byline from an old opinion column. Others ask editors to scrub entire articles from websites. In other instances, students who might have been quoted in a published story now want their names removed.”

“President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday to shake up the arcane but pivotal world of college accreditation, a move Trump has called his ‘secret weapon’ in his bid to remake higher education,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The order aims to use the accrediting system to combat what Trump views as discriminatory practices and ‘ideological overreach’ on college campuses, according to administration officials. The order would put a greater focus on intellectual diversity among faculty and student success.”

“Elite universities are raising cash as they deal with life in President Trump’s crosshairs,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Princeton University is issuing $320 million in bonds, while Northwestern secured $500 million and Harvard raised $750 million. Yale University, which has flown under Trump’s radar so far, is trying to sell billions in its private-equity holdings.”

The presidents of more than 150 U.S. colleges and universities have signed a letter condemning “government overreach” in response to the Trump administration’s recent moves to seize control of academic institutions, NBC News reports.

The college leaders say they “are open to constructive reform and do not oppose legitimate government oversight,” but “oppose undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live, and work on our campuses.”

“Harvard University said it has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing it has violated the university’s constitutional rights by freezing billions of dollars in federal funding, illegally imperiling its academic independence,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The lawsuit sets up a legal showdown between America’s most prominent university and the president of the United States, who has been on an escalating campaign to reorder elite higher education.”

“The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers,” the AP reports.

“Currently, roughly 5.3 million borrowers are in default on their federal student loans.”

“The National Institutes of Health appears to be preparing to prohibit the awarding of new grants to any institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies, in what would be an escalation of the Trump administration’s use of research funding as leverage to dismantle activities at universities that it deems discriminatory or antisemitic,” Stat reports.

“The Trump administration has grown so furious with Harvard University after a week of escalating dispute between the two sides that it is planning to pull an additional $1 billion of the school’s funding for health research,“ the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Trump administration officials thought the long list of demands they sent Harvard last Friday was a confidential starting point for negotiations.”

“They were surprised on Monday when Harvard released the letter to the public. Before Monday, the administration was planning to treat Harvard more leniently than Columbia University, but now officials want to apply even more pressure to the nation’s most prominent university.”

New York Times: “For years, American colleges and universities have attracted growing numbers of international students who often pay full tuition, effectively subsidizing domestic students.”

“But the Trump administration’s recent move to deport hundreds of students here on visas, and his trade war with China, have stoked fears that the United States is no longer a welcoming place for international students. This week, the administration also asked Harvard to hand over lists of foreign students, adding to a sense of panic on campuses.”

Jill Filipovic: “One of the more peculiar positions of the American right is its simultaneous obsession with and hostility to education, and particularly with elite educational institutions. Donald Trump has picked fights with Ivy League schools and talks about them as woke hellscapes; he’s also exceptionally proud that he has a degree from one, and judges others’ intelligence by which schools they attended.”

“Conservative culture warriors want to take over elite universities because those universities have such caché, even though in taking them over, conservatives would kill exactly what has made those institutions desirable and admirable: their dedication to rigor and excellence.”

“Harvard University received an emailed letter from the Trump administration last Friday that included a series of demands about hiring, admissions and curriculum so onerous that school officials decided they had no choice but to take on the White House,” the New York Times reports.

“The university announced its intentions on Monday, setting off a tectonic battle between one of the country’s most prestigious universities and a U.S. president. Then, almost immediately, came a frantic call from a Trump official.”

“The April 11 letter from the White House’s task force on antisemitism, this official told Harvard, should not have been sent and was ‘unauthorized.’”

“The Trump administration accused Harvard University of failing to report large foreign donations to the federal government as required by law, part of a widening effort to target the institution after it refused to comply with President Trump’s demands,” the New York Times reports.

“The Department of Homeland Security sent Harvard a letter on Wednesday threatening to revoke its eligibility to enroll international students unless it submits information on international students’ disciplinary records and protest participation,” the Harvard Crimson reports.

“The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks to turn up pressure on the university that has defied its demands to change its hiring and other practices,” CNN reports.

“A final decision on rescinding the university’s tax exemption is expected soon.”