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The National Science Foundation won’t award any new funding “until further notice.” The agency also moved to cap indirect research rates at 15 percent. Meanwhile, President Trump proposed cutting the NSF’s budget in half.

Science research funding and programs that help students access college are on the chopping block as Trump aims to cut at least $163 billion.

A week after restoring foreign students’ legal status, immigration officials detailed plans for a new policy granting unprecedented leeway to terminate their residency. It could foreshadow a new round of deportation efforts.

Having pulled off an unlikely victory in snap poll, Canadian prime minister is told to make position on controversial policy clear

Last year, US campuses were engulfed by vigorous protests against Israel’s military action in Gaza. Yet now, as the war rages on and the Trump administration cracks down on universities’ freedoms and funding, students are largely silent. What has changed, asks Patrick Jack

Unless Trump changes course, US universities will have to live without their historical advantages, say Chris R. Glass, Hans de Wit and Philip Altbach

Signs that university leaders are more willing to stand up to president come as administration ‘walks back’ some of its extreme policies after facing political realities

The proposal is part of Republicans’ broader plan to pay for Trump’s tax cuts and other priorities.

Federal agencies cut some grants to historically Black colleges in efforts to quash DEI. HBCU leaders hope a new executive order supporting their institutions creates a positive shift.

‘White liberals’ are attacked from all sides of the US political spectrum. And with Donald Trump ramping up the rhetoric, college professors – popularly seen as archetypal liberals – are very much in the firing line, Kevin Schultz tells Matthew Reisz 

The Trump administration aims to overhaul accreditation. Agencies say they are willing to work with the federal government on reforms, but Trump’s claims are misleading.

This is American universities’ 9/11 moment. But now, as then, understanding why we are hated is important, says Jonathan Zimmerman