If you pay any attention to the news, then you are probably aware of the fact that there is a cultural and political war being waged against higher education in the United States. This war has been a hallmark of the first months of the second Trump Administration, as the President, newly emboldened and surrounded by people in power who are not just willing to do his bidding, but are in complete ideological lockstep, has pulled levers of power against educational institutions that would previously have seemed unfathomable: withdrawing hundreds of millions of dollars of federal research money, ... Read More