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.

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.

The $1.64 trillion financial portfolio is managed separately from the department's policy apparatus. But President Trump acknowledged that the massive loan balance was a complicating factor in his effort to shutter the agency.

Colleges and universities under investigation for campus antisemitism now risk losing federal contracts and grants, the Department of Education warns. The first target is Columbia University.