{"id":95177,"date":"2025-04-21T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95177"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:59:23","slug":"what-are-colleges-legal-options-when-threatened-with-federal-funding-cuts-burke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/04\/21\/what-are-colleges-legal-options-when-threatened-with-federal-funding-cuts-burke\/","title":{"rendered":"What are colleges\u2019 legal options when threatened with federal funding cuts? [Burke]"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are colleges\u2019 legal options when threatened with federal funding cuts?<\/strong><\/a> — from highereddive.com\/ by Lilah Burke
\nHigher education experts said colleges could work together or lean on their associations if they take up a legal fight against the Trump administration.<\/em><\/p>\n

Understand your allies
\n<\/strong>In fact, colleges may struggle to fight the administration on their own.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think that institutions should necessarily fight it by themselves,\u201d said\u00a0Jeffrey Sun, a higher education and law professor at the University of Louisville.\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019ll win.\u201d<\/p>\n

What will have more power is several institutions, or even many, working together to fight the attacks on higher education.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we have an option unless we work in collective action,\u201d\u00a0Sun\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

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Harvard University won\u2019t yield to Trump administration\u2019s demands<\/strong><\/a>— from highereddive.com by Natalie Schwartz
\nAlan Garber, the Ivy League institution\u2019s president, said the university wouldn\u2019t forfeit its \u201cindependence or its constitutional rights.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Harvard University President Alan Garber said Monday\u00a0that officials there would not yield to the Trump administration\u2019s litany of demands to maintain access to federal funding, arguing the federal government had overstepped its authority by issuing the ultimatum.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,\u201d\u00a0Garber wrote in\u00a0<\/span>a community message<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The move tees up a battle between the Ivy League institution and the Trump administration, which threatened the university with the loss of $9 billion in federal funding over\u00a0what it claimed was a failure to protect Jewish students from\u00a0antisemitism.<\/p>\n

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Harvard Professors Sue the Trump Administration While Other Universities Are Targeted<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from iblnews.org<\/p>\n

Two groups representing Harvard University professors (the American Association of University Professors and the Harvard faculty chapter) filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration on Friday, saying that the threat to cut billions in federal funding for the institution violates free speech and other First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

The Trump Administration announced two weeks ago that it reviewed about $9 billion in federal funding that Harvard receives and would send a list of demands to unfreeze the money.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Andrew Manuel Crespo, a law professor at Harvard and general counsel of the AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter, said the\u00a0\u201cTrump administration\u2019s policies are a pretext to chill universities and their faculties from engaging in speech, teaching, and research that don\u2019t align with President Trump\u2019s views.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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OPINION: For our republic to survive, education leaders must remain firm in the face of authoritarianism<\/strong><\/a> — from hechingerreport.org by Jason E. Glass
\nWe face direct threats to the values around access, opportunity and truth our schools are meant to uphold<\/em><\/p>\n

Across the country, education leaders are being forced to make some tough decisions \u2014 to choose between defending core values, such as equity and historical truth, or yielding to political coercion in hopes of avoiding conflict. There is no strategy that does not involve conflict and trade-offs. Every education leader operates in their own political context with unique legal and cultural constraints.<\/p>\n

But make no mistake: Inaction is not neutral. Even the decision to do nothing is a choice, one that has consequences.<\/p>\n

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Northwestern to self-fund federally threatened research<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from highereddive.com by Laura Spitalniak
\nLeaders at the well-known institution said the support would sustain \u201cvital research\u201d until they had a \u201cbetter understanding of the funding landscape.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Northwestern University will pull from its coffers to\u00a0continue funding \u201cvital research\u201d\u00a0that has been threatened by the Trump administration, the private institution announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Trump is bullying, blackmailing and threatening colleges, and they are just beginning to fight back<\/strong> <\/a>— from hechingerreport.org by\u00a0Liz Willen
\nAfter Harvard rejected the president\u2019s demands, more university leaders have started to speak out \u2014 but many say a bigger response is needed<\/em><\/p>\n

Many hope it is the beginning of a new resistance in higher education. \u201cHarvard\u2019s move gives others permission to come out on the ice a little,\u201d McGuire said. \u201cThis is an answer to the tepid and vacillating presidents who said they don\u2019t want to draw attention to themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harvard paved the way for other institutions to stand up to the administration\u2019s demands, Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, noted in an\u00a0interview with NPR<\/a>\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n

Stanford University President Jonathan Levin immediately\u00a0backed<\/a>\u00a0Harvard, noting that \u201cthe way to bring about constructive change is not by destroying the nation\u2019s capacity for scientific research, or through the government taking command of a private institution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell them, you will never regret doing what is right, but if you allow yourself to be co-opted, you will have regret that you caved to a dictator who doesn\u2019t care about you or your institution.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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