The new Trump administration hits higher education

(Greetings from airportland. Today I’ve been in New York’s JFK airport for nine hours and counting, with flights delayed due to the awful Potomac River crash. Apologies if this post is telegraphic or hasty.)

Donald Trump is back in office with an intense flurry of executive actions and statements. In that whirlwind he and his team have found time to take some steps against concerning higher education, which I’ll try to summarize here.

First off: if any of these policies impact you in your academic work, please share your story in comments, if you can. If you’d like to, but don’t want to do so in public, you can reach me privately here. We need to get these stories out to show the real, human damage Trump is doing to academia.

Second, please note this is a post made in haste. Political events are moving very quickly. Personally, the past two weeks have been grueling. If this post missed anything, please let me know in comments. This is also a post focused just on higher education impacts; I don’t have time for a summary or analysis of the overall administrative strategy. Similarly I can’t offer advice about what to do about all of this.

ITEM — some federal web content has gone down or been replaced by new materials. This has removed some data and documents from researchers’ use.