The legal showdown over academic freedom, federal funding and campus oversight will likely take years to play out and could end up at the Supreme Court.

U.S. colleges are facing uncertainty about international enrollment due to visa cancellations and federal pressure. Schools risk losing funding and the ability to host international students, even though they enrolled a record 1.1 million last year.

”The money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible and concerning Title VI investigations,” a Trump administration official said, referring to a federal statute that prohibits discrimination in programs and activities that receive federal funding.

The university announced several changes demanded by the Trump administration to overhaul its disciplinary policies, sharply restrict protests, ban masks, sanction student groups in violation and immediately review its Middle East studies programs and admissions.

The $1.64 trillion financial portfolio is managed separately from the department’s policy apparatus. But President Trump acknowledged that the massive loan balance was a complicating factor in his effort to shutter the agency.

The Anti-Defamation League released an updated report card assessing how U.S. colleges combat antisemitism and protect Jewish students. The report evaluated 135 schools and found that 45% improved over the last academic year, while only 9% declined.

The unemployment gap is partly due to the increase in competition and changing employer expectations, said David Deming, professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. “What you’re seeing is a consequence of the success we’ve had in educating more people."

For more than a decade, Chinese students have flocked to the United States, drawn by the prestige of an overseas education and the glamor of the American Dream. Education consultancies flourished across China, with parents paying big bucks for tutors and classes that promised to send their children abroad. But that’s changing now—and recent statistics […]