President Donald Trump set his sights on forcible education reform from the outset of his second term.
An executive order issued Jan. 31 ordered the end of race and sex-based discrimination across American institutions, including higher education. Then, the Trump administration alleged that Ivy League schools — Columbia, Brown, Harvard — had violated federal civil rights law, freezing and revoking federal grants until the schools agreed to certain terms of resolution. Universities have largely opted to cooperate with the Trump administration, or put up a conspicuous resistance. The University of California, Los Angeles has settled on a third strategy. (RELATED: Elite University System Shudders At Trump Settlement’s Price Tag)
