One part of the law blocks state funding for university programs promoting DEI or activism. Another bans general-ed courses teaching identity politics or systemic inequities in U.S. institutions.

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.

President Trump's slashes to higher education institutions and research funding threaten U.S. public health, workers say.

Rights advocates raised alarm, including free speech concerns, after it was reported that the U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants.