{"id":14263,"date":"2025-03-20T09:45:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T09:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-battles-with-colleges-could-change-american-culture-for-a-generation\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T09:45:37","slug":"trumps-battles-with-colleges-could-change-american-culture-for-a-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-battles-with-colleges-could-change-american-culture-for-a-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In October 2023, three days before Hamas fighters attacked Israel, Columbia University\u2019s new president stood outside Low Library and posed a foundational question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat,\u201d she asked, \u201cdoes the world need from a great university in the 21st century?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president, Nemat Shafik, argued that the world required much. Rigorous thinkers who were grounded in the age\u2019s great debates. Researchers whose breakthroughs could transform societies. Universities that extended their missions far beyond their gates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Seventeen months later, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/14\/us\/columbia-president-nemat-shafik-resigns.html\" title=\"\">Dr. Shafik is gone<\/a> and the Trump administration is offering a far different answer. The ideal Dr. Shafik described, much of it historically bankrolled by American taxpayers, is under siege, as President Trump ties public money to his government\u2019s vision for higher education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That vision is a narrower one. Teach what you must, defend \u201cthe American tradition and Western civilization,\u201d prepare people for the work force, and limit protests and research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI have not experienced, across 46 years of higher education, a period where there\u2019s been this much distance\u201d between the agendas of university leaders and Washington, said Robert J. Jones, the chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The outcome of this clash over the purpose of higher education stands to shape American culture for a generation or more. If the president realizes his ambitions, many American universities \u2014 public and private, in conservative states and liberal ones \u2014 could be hollowed out, imperiling the backbone of the nation\u2019s research endeavors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two months into Mr. Trump\u2019s term, universities are laying off workers, imposing hiring freezes, shutting down laboratories and facing federal investigations. After the administration sent Columbia <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/nyregion\/columbia-university-students-disciplined-hamilton-hall.html\" title=\"\">a list of demands<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/07\/nyregion\/trump-administration-columbia-grants-cancelled-antisemitism.html\" title=\"\">canceled $400 million<\/a> in grants and contracts, university leaders across the country fear how the government might wield its financial might to influence curriculums, staffing and admissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cColleges have gotten hundreds of billions of dollars from hard-working taxpayers,\u201d Mr. Trump said in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1856114715694444856\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a campaign video<\/a>. \u201cAnd now we are going to get this anti-American insanity out of our institutions once and for all. We are going to have real education in America.\u201d The goal, Mr. Trump declared, is to reclaim \u201cour once-great educational institutions from the radical left.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Other Republicans have spoken, often in more measured language, about their own frustrations with higher education. Senator Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, bluntly complained during a hearing last month that colleges were \u201cnot preparing students to succeed in the modern work force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With presidential power magnified by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/14\/us\/politics\/trump-republicans-congress-power.html\" title=\"\">a largely genuflecting Congress<\/a>, Mr. Trump\u2019s challenges to academic freedom and First Amendment protections have not provoked broad and visible public outrage. The sobering reality for university leaders is that Mr. Trump has the administrative upper hand, and academia has startlingly few vocal allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The fusillade against higher education led by Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance \u2014 men with Ivy League degrees \u2014 is more furious than past conservative crusades against the country\u2019s elite academic institutions. The administration, though, is capitalizing on imperfections that have been tearing at the system\u2019s stature for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHis genius was in understanding and then exploiting the resentments, the anxieties, and the vulnerabilities of\u201d voters who already had \u201ccritical sentiments\u201d toward higher education, Ronald J. Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, wrote of Mr. Trump in his 2021 book, \u201cWhat Universities Owe Democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Private polling conducted for universities shows that many people believe that these nonprofit institutions are anything but \u2014 one consequence of high tuition costs. Even though a college education almost always provides graduates with higher lifetime incomes, rising debt has made the value of a degree a matter of debate. Politicians have eagerly caricatured colleges as sanctuaries of intolerance and \u201cwokeism\u201d where admissions processes favor the well-connected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For all of their grand talk \u2014 \u201cFor Humanity\u201d is the name of Yale University\u2019s $7 billion fund-raising campaign \u2014 administrators and professors often acknowledge that they have not mustered easy-to-digest responses against even routine criticisms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Universities strained to be more accessible, building up more diverse classes and handing out more financial aid. But Chancellor Jones, who will become the University of Washington\u2019s president this summer, nevertheless described higher education\u2019s public relations strategy as \u201ca work in progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many leaders concede that while the role of the university in American life is clear to them, it has grown muddled to many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHigher education has always been able to stand up and invoke its moral authority,\u201d said Roger L. Geiger, a distinguished professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and a leading authority on the history of American colleges. \u201cWhat\u2019s happened is they\u2019ve simply lost that moral authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Pew Research Center found in 2012 that 26 percent of Americans believed that colleges and universities were negatively affecting the United States. Last year, even before the campus demonstrations that led to thousands of arrests, Pew reported that figure had increased to 45 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Much of Mr. Trump\u2019s higher education agenda during his first term empowered for-profit colleges. Now, though, Mr. Trump is taking clearer aim at the cultures and missions of major nonprofit universities. His tactics, university officials and researchers believe, could throw American higher education toward an earlier time \u2014 closer to when, as Dr. Shafik put it, universities \u201cwere kept separate from the world around them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">American higher education predates the republic itself. Harvard, for example, was established in the colonial period to educate clergymen. George Washington\u2019s idea for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/millercenter.org\/the-presidency\/presidential-speeches\/december-7-1796-eighth-annual-message-congress\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a national university<\/a> was never realized, but Abraham Lincoln found more success pursuing the idea that higher education was entwined with American ambition when he signed the measure that led to publicly funded land-grant institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Research became a focus of universities late in the 19th century. The nation\u2019s reliance on universities greatly accelerated during and after World War II, as the United States began to lean on academia more than most other countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Essential to the system was Washington\u2019s new willingness to underwrite overhead costs of expensive research projects. By 1995, the National Academy of Sciences concluded that universities were \u201cthe core strength\u201d of the American research-and-development apparatus. Universities also assumed part of the United States\u2019 soft-power strategy, working on foreign aid projects that spanned the globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That symbiotic arrangement is now in jeopardy. The administration has framed its proposed cuts to overhead expenses, for instance, as a way \u201cto ensure that as many funds as possible go toward direct scientific research costs.\u201d But administration officials have also depicted the longstanding framework in harsh terms, including the assertion that it created a \u201cslush fund\u201d for liberal university administrators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As Dr. Geiger put it, the Trump administration\u2019s approach represented \u201ca new era.\u201d Besides upending individual studies, cuts to federal money could unleash dramatic consequences for the structures and objectives of universities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNo one can assume, for example, that biochemistry is going to have a sustained future of generous funding,\u201d said John Thelin, a professor emeritus at the University of Kentucky and a former president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He could think of no president, provost or medical school dean who had, in recent years, appeared particularly nervous about an evaporation of funding. These days, it is hard to find a president, provost or medical school dean who is not anxious about something.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Illinois, the federally funded Soybean Innovation Lab will close next month. Dr. Jones fears that research on everything from insulin production to artificial intelligence could ultimately wither, undermining the university\u2019s ability to advance what he called \u201cthe public good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cBefore, we were just trying to tell our story to improve the value proposition in the eyes of the public, but now it becomes a bigger, much larger issue than that,\u201d said Dr. Jones, one of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-democracy.html\" title=\"\">few top university chiefs<\/a> who have been willing to be interviewed on the record since Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The threat is also acute at private institutions, even those with the biggest war chests. Johns Hopkins said last week that it would eliminate more than 2,000 jobs in the United States and overseas, the largest round of layoffs in its history. The University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Trump\u2019s alma mater, is among the universities with new hiring freezes. (It announced that step before the Trump administration said on Wednesday that it would <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/19\/us\/politics\/trump-to-pause-175-million-for-university-of-pennsylvania-over-transgender-policy.html\" title=\"\">pause about $175 million<\/a> in funding for Penn because it had allowed a transgender woman to compete on its women\u2019s swim team.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent weeks, presidents at public and private universities alike have weighed how long any institutional lifelines could last. But professors doubt that a major university can meet its modern ambitions without a relatively open spigot of federal support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cUltimately, the university cannot exist without research,\u201d said Brent R. Stockwell, the chair of biological sciences at Columbia. \u201cIt would be really, really more akin to a high school or a local community college where you\u2019re just teaching some classes without world-class researchers bringing the frontier of knowledge into the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So far, Mr. Trump has not signaled any interest in retreat. That has left academic leaders searching urgently for how to save an ideal they insist is imperative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Asked whether he feared a wholesale remaking of the American university, Dr. Jones replied that he did not like to use the word \u201cfear.\u201d But, he added, \u201cit is a concern \u2014 I can\u2019t say that it is not one of those things that a lot of us are concerned about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Sharon Otterman<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     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