Student loans and Pell Grants are safe but Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says she has started the process of shutting down the Department of Education.
Tribal colleges and universities say it's illegal to withhold financial support from them. Their funding is protected by treaties and other legal obligations on the federal government.
Some 60 colleges and universities now face "enforcement actions" over claims of campus antisemitism, the U.S. Department of Education warned just a few days after yanking $400 million in grants from Columbia University over alleged civil rights infractions.
Some colleges are teaching students the art of having productive political conversations with people they disagree with. Marketplace's David Brancaccio discusses the school administrators behind the movement and how it prepares students for entering the workforce.
