A federal judge has once again stepped in to block the latest assault on Harvard University by the Trump administration—part of a larger escalation in the conflict between the president and elite colleges.
Trump’s effort last week to ban foreign students from entering the U.S. to attend Harvard came hours after the U.S. Education Department notified the accrediting body that audits Columbia University of the department’s finding that the Ivy League institution is in violation of antidiscrimination laws.
These latest developments are part of a broad attempt, now playing out on several fronts, by the administration to reshape academia and force higher education into alignment with the president’s political agenda.
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