We at FIRE have been battling overreach by the Trump administration every day for months now. When federal agencies threatened to strip Harvard of billions in research funding unless it submitted to ...

From student loan reform to canceling ‘woke’ programs, Trump has dedicated significant time and attention to reshaping higher education. The Latest A whirlwind of political developments last year has ...

To constructively reform an institution requires understanding its problems and challenges. To understand an institution’s problems and challenges, one must grasp its aims, structure, and spirit. Many ...

The Trump administration has sent a letter to the nation’s universities asking them to answer how they will address reforms in seven policy areas before the end of 2026.

As with many things Trump, the administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” provoked accusations of authoritarian takeover of vital American institutions. And, as with many ...

On March 18, AEI’s Beth Akers and Preston Cooper spoke with Alex Ricci of the Education Finance Council and Lindsey M. Burke of the Heritage Foundation to discuss what it would look like to pass ...

Over the last few decades, the two most important domestic policy successes for American conservatives—reforming welfare and K-12 education—were achieved through the efforts of Republican governors, ...

Once a sleepy policy area on the national scale, higher education is now a central issue making headlines in the overall political discourse. Believe it or not, the education policy divides between ...

As with many things Trump, the administrations "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" provoked accusations of authoritarian takeover of vital American institutions. And, as with many ...