13 entries in the ledger
A coalition of higher education groups and unions sued the Department of Homeland Security in federal court in Massachusetts on Aug. 18, asking a judge to block and vacate the final rule capping F and J visas at four...
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Massachusetts on Aug. 13 granted Harvard University's motion to dismiss the Justice Department's civil rights lawsuit accusing the school of failing to protect Jewish and Israeli...
Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent an open letter to U.S. college and university presidents and governing boards on Aug. 3, 2026, asking each institution to post a public statement on its website before the end of...
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...
Seventeen Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration on March 11, 2026, over a new Education Department data collection, the Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement, which requires colleges to report...
The Justice Department sued Harvard University in federal district court in Massachusetts on February 13, 2026, seeking an injunction ordering the school to produce admissions records the department has requested since...
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...