Colleges and Universities

• Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance - The Trump administration has lowered the bar for a deal with the university, backtracking on its insistence on a $200 million payment to the government, The New York Times has learned.
• Texas Moves to Curtail Visas for Skilled Foreign Workers - Gov. Greg Abbott said the state would investigate public agencies and universities that employ those with H-1B visas, a program the Trump administration has also targeted.
• Columbia Selects University of Wisconsin Chancellor as Its President - Jennifer Mnookin has led the flagship campus of the state university system since 2022.
• D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students’ Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests - Documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday include dossiers that investigators prepared on pro-Palestinian student activists before they were targeted for deportation.
• Investigations and a Billion-Dollar ‘Shakedown’: How Trump Targeted Higher Education - Donald J. Trump has unleashed the power of the presidency against American colleges, with mixed results.
• One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. - The United States is broken, but not in every way.
• Some U.Va. Board Members Asked to Resign as Gov. Abigail Spanberger Takes Power - After months of upheaval at the state’s flagship university, a new Democratic governor appeared ready to shake up the school’s leadership.
• Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead - Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.
• Justice Department Sues Virginia Over Tuition Aid for Unauthorized Immigrants - The department said the state’s policy of granting unauthorized immigrants in-state financial aid at public colleges and universities violates federal law.
• In Private Letters, Harvard and Trump Administration Escalate Duel - It is the latest twist in the marquee battle of the administration’s campaign to rein in colleges and universities it views as too liberal.