Eight Legal Experts on Trump's Assault on Higher Education
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
3-27-2025
Publisher
The Law and Political Economy Project
Language
en-US
Abstract
Since Inauguration Day, the Trump administration has waged open warfare on higher education. The speed, scope, and volume of executive orders and agency actions have been overwhelming. If the goal was to create chaos and “flood the zone,” the president has delivered.
The entries that follow—which cover the administration’s assault on federal grant funding; on trans students; on non-citizen students; on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, and on pro-Palestinian activism—aim to break down and clarify the legal implications of these various executive actions for higher education institutions. The authors explain what the executive orders purport to require, analyze what they actually require, and assess how colleges and universities ought to respond. As these experts ably demonstrate, the legal details matter, and, as with many Trump-world policies, little if any care has been paid to these details.
Recommended Citation
Jonathan Feingold, Veena Dubal, Samuel Bagenstos, Alexander Chen, Dallas Estes, Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Jeremiah Chin & Sameer Ashar,
Eight Legal Experts on Trump's Assault on Higher Education
,
LPE Project Blog
(2025).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/278
Publisher URL
https://lpeproject.org/blog/eight-legal-experts-on-trumps-assault-on-higher-education/
