Each deal between colleges and the administration is unique, but they have common goals: altering the culture at powerful institutions and making their policies more aligned with President Trump’s.
Harvard
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Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI
The library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard Law School and OpenAI this summer to digitize the materials and make them more fully searchable.
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She hoped key research could help save her eyesight. Then the Trump funding cuts came
Jessica Chaikof says research into gene therapies could someday save her eyesight. But she worries cuts to federal research funding could mean that therapy won’t be ready in time.
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Trump says he’s close to ‘a Deal’ with Harvard, as judge grants injunction
Trump’s Truth Social comments came as a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction that would continue blocking the president’s efforts to bar international students from attending Harvard.
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International students look to the U.K. instead of the U.S. amid Trump’s visa plans
Planned U.S. visa restrictions are causing students around the world to consider going to the United Kingdom instead.
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As Trump targets elite schools, Harvard’s president says they should ‘stand firm’
Cutting off research funding for Harvard University might hurt the school, its president Alan Garber told NPR, but it also potentially sets back important work that benefits the public.
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By the numbers: A look at international students at Harvard and across the U.S.
The latest criticism from the Trump administration of Harvard University highlighted the number of international students entering the United States each year for higher education.
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Trump’s Harvard visa threat could wipe out several of the school’s sports teams
Some of Harvard’s sports teams could be wiped out by a Trump administration decision that would make the school with the nation’s largest athletic program ineligible for international student visas.
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Harvard learned it has an authentic Magna Carta. In 1946, it paid less than $28 for it
A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School’s digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1300.
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Can philanthropy fill the gap as government aid shrinks? A NYT reporter weighs in
Is private philanthropy an option to fill the gaps in funding for universities seeing federal funding threatened or frozen? NPR asks New York Times reporter Teddy Schleifer.
