8 entries in the ledger
The Education Department released a regulatory agenda on July 3, 2026, setting out its rulemaking timeline for the coming year. The department said it plans to issue a proposed accreditation rule in July that would make...
On November 7, 2025, Cornell University announced a $60 million settlement with the Trump administration to restore roughly $250 million in federal research funding that had been frozen since April 2025 over alleged...
On October 1, 2025, the White House invited nine universities, including MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt, Dartmouth and Brown, to sign a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" in exchange...
On August 28, 2025, DHS and ICE published a proposed rule in the Federal Register that would end the decades-old "duration of status" system for F, J, and I nonimmigrant visa holders, replacing it with fixed admission...
On July 30, 2025, Brown University announced an agreement with the federal government to restore frozen federal research funding, unlocking roughly $510 million in threatened medical and health-sciences grants and...
Columbia University agreed on July 23, 2025, to pay the federal government $200 million over three years, plus an additional $21 million to settle a separate EEOC investigation, to resolve federal probes into alleged...
On May 22, 2025, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered DHS to terminate Harvard University's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, which would have barred the university from enrolling foreign...
Starting in late January 2025 with an executive order on combating campus antisemitism, and continuing through the spring, the Trump administration launched a series of executive actions asserting new federal authority...