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As Trump administration escalates threats on university, unions call on Harvard leadership to support workers

Legal aid group says most students contacting them are Palestinian, Arab Muslim and other students of color

From Harvard’s president facing down political pressure to a science foundation scrubbing controversy from its website, the battle for free speech and open inquiry plays out where ideas are meant to thrive.

Harvard University took the extraordinary step of suing the Trump administration on April 21, 2025, claiming that the pressure campaign mounted on the school by the president and his Cabinet to force viewpoint diversity on campus violated the Constitution’s guarantees of free speech.

With the Trump administration seeking to cut federal funding for colleges and universities, you might be wondering whether the endowments of these institutions of higher education might be able to fill those gaps. Todd L. Ely, a professor of public administration at the University of Colorado Denver, explains what endowments…

Harvard is suing the Trump administration over federal funding cuts that it says put critical research at risk.

The latest executive order was designed to reshape how the federal government determined which colleges and universities were eligible to receive federal student loans and Pell grants.

President Donald Trump has ordered sharper scrutiny of America’s colleges and the accreditors that oversee them

A few days ago, in a move that attracted international attention, the White House threatened to strip Harvard University of US$2 billion (£1.5 billion) in federal funding, potentially revoke its tax-exempt status and even prevent it from enrolling international students if it didn’t capitulate to a new list of demands.