Colleges to use summer break to regroup after rough start with Trump

“The reason why the United States of America has the most advanced research infrastructure in the world is because of its relationship to the federal government, and if we want to stay the most important nation in the world … there is no way forward without the federal government being intimately involved in the support of, not control over, but support of our research infrastructure,” said Todd Wolfson, national president of the American Association of University Professors.

“The Trump administration and their approach to higher education is probably the worst and most destructive approach to higher education I’ve ever seen in the history of this country,” said Wolfson.

Publication Date: 
Monday, May 19, 2025
Publication: 
The Hill
Article URL: 
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5304218-colleges-universities-summer-break-trump-harvard-columbia-transgender-students-campus-protests/