President Donald Trump has been on an escalating campaign to reorder elite higher education. The administration’s Anti-Semitism Task Force has frozen billions of dollars in federal funding after Harvard refused to comply with their demands. WSJ’s Douglas Belkin on the showdown between America’s most prominent university and the U.S. president. Jessica Mendoza hosts. Further Listening: - Trump's College Crackdown Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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For the past couple months, the Trump administration has been targeting higher education, homing in on some of the nation's top universities.
The Trump administration making good on its threat to cancel $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University.
The federal funding freeze at the University of Pennsylvania. The Trump administration is pausing nearly $200 million in funds.
The Trump administration freezes $1 billion in funding for Cornell University and $790 million for Northwestern University. A Trump administration...
And now, the administration has set its sights on its most high-profile target yet, Harvard.
The Trump administration is threatening to withhold $9 billion in funding to Harvard, one of America's most prestigious universities.
Why does it matter that it's Harvard University?
Harvard is the wealthiest university in the nation with endowment of about $53 billion. So if anybody has the wherewithal to stand up and fight the Trump administration, it's going to be Harvard University.
That's my colleague Doug Belkin, who covers higher education.
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