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West Point Disbands Student Groups for Women and Minorities

The United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., has shut down a dozen student affinity clubs to comply with...
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As the DEI Crackdown Escalates, Faculty Choose Between Silence and Resistance

While one professor says faculty are “pre-emptively censoring themselves” in response, others are defiant—while another is asking himself, “What would I be willing to lose my job for?”

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Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Trans Participation in Women’s Sports

The order says the United States will oppose “male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.”

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Campuses No Longer Off-Limits to ICE

The Trump administration cleared the way for immigration enforcement officers to take action on campuses, sowing fear among undocumented students. Higher ed leaders are struggling with how to respond.

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Scapegoating DEI: Silence Is Complicity

President Trump’s attacks on DEI are damaging and dehumanizing, DeRionne P. Pollard writes.

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Hegseth Moves to End Race-Based Admissions at Military Academies

Newly confirmed U.S. secretary of defense Pete Hegseth issued a memo Jan. 29 ordering the Department of Defense to eliminate...
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Higher Ed Fights Back Against Trump’s DEI Order

The American Association of University Professors and others argue in a new lawsuit that the executive orders violate the Constitution.

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Trump’s Antisemitism Order Leaves Many Questions Unanswered

The Trump administration has signaled it would take a harder line on colleges that don’t, in its view, sufficiently protect Jewish students’ rights.