President Trump and his allies attempted to prove that they have not broughed in the threat of a campaign targeting university, throwing millions of federal governments for education and research.
However, before President Trump took office, many of the famous universities of the country had already prepared to fight back.
In public, Trump, Vice President JD Vans and a small number of university president are eager, but the school is marshing behind the scenes, financing, and regulations.
Some universities hire a lobby activity company in a Republican country. Others are strengthening or rebuild their existence in Washington.
Many people are quietly fine -tuned messages and policies, and want to prevent policy proprietors who know that attacking higher education is a good politics. For example, last week, Latgars University announced last week that it would cancel a diversity, fairness, and inclusive conferences, which are the focus of the new administration.
A university spokeswoman stated that the criticism was made after many of the federal governments provided by the federal government withdrew from the meeting and quoted a Presidential order targeting topics.
“There are concerns about many campuses,” said Kenneth K. Won, a professor of Brown's educational policy.
Several efforts to rehabilitate the reputation of higher education are already ongoing, and it is a response to attacking Congress leaders after the campus protest in a war in Gaza. But university officials are now facing the government that has revealed a light EMPT for some wings of higher education. Mr. Trump states that the school is dominated by “Marxist, maniac, madman”, and Vans calls them “crazy.”
The ominous Saber, who rattles from Mr. Trump and his allies, has been donated, federal research funds, student financial assistance, diversity initiative, and students who have not been written in schools in the United States. Includes the potential expulsion of the country.
Himing a lobbyist that the Republican leaders may look like, some major universities have responded. Harvard University focused on the Ballard Partner, a former company, Pam Bondy, the Capitle Hill Heavyweight ballad partner, Pam Bondy, and his Chief of Staff Suzy Wils. Colombia University has registered for the BGR government issue. This is a co -founder of Hailberber Baber, Governor of Mississippi and Chairman of the Republican Party National Committee.
The Duke University, which has an in -house government -related initiatives, brought DLA Piper as an advisor. One of the executives of the company is Richard Bar, a Republican member who represented North Carolina (with Duke) for 18 years.
Notre Dame has recently registered its own lobbyist for the first time since Trump's previous term. Yale University has started its own operation theater in Washington.
“The university has decided to open an office in Washington DC after performing a benchmark among the piercing agencies,” said Karen Pete, a Yale spokeswoman, in the future. I quote the “problem” of education by e -mail.
The latest activities in Washington came after other schools strengthened their lobby activities.
In last 2022, Washington University in St. Louis paid $ 50,000 for that. Lobby activity in the capital. The following year, it raised its spending to $ 250,000. The Federal record has exploded to $ 720,000 in 2024. The university spokeswoman did not comment.
Nationwide, university staff and their allies said that they were more prepared for what they would expect under Trump than when they first gained power in 2017. The approach to Trump's President searched for his insight into his administration's ambitions in the “Project 2025” plan, which is closely related to many of his appointments.
The administration did not waste time to launch those plans with the rapid increase in administrative orders in the first week. We are trying to prohibit diversity, fairness, and inclusion initiative. This is a category that includes almost all campuses, including those operated by the contractor receiving the federal student aid fund.
Trump also ordered federal governments to edit the list of “Nine Potential Civil Compliance Survey” of organizations, including more than $ 1 billion, more than $ 1 billion.
At a public telephone conference sponsored by DLA Piper, Burr said that the remaining of the Trump administration's higher education policy was not yet clear, but “donations potentially, potentially potentially profitable goals. I believe.
There are few surprising topics for the wealthy university leaders in Japan.
The fund has been exempted from taxation for many years. However, in 2017, during the first term of Trump, Republican members led accusations to impose 1.4 % of goods tax on investment revenue of large private universities. Currently, there is a debate to raise it to 14 % and 21 %.
As a Senator, Vans has suggested that he is a major supporter of increasing donation taxes and will increase to 35 % for more than $ 10 billion donations. Vans has previously called for “attacks” to universities, despite the Yale methods that are partially funded by universities.
“Why are these large hedge funds pretending to be university so that most citizens, most people who have a hard time putting food on a table? When he was a Senator, he added: It is unfair. “
According to a US and university business officer analysis, at least 56 schools were forced to pay 1.4 % of taxes in 2023, forcing them to pay a total of $ 380 million. According to the records, the representatives of the main universities were busy presenting a new anti -leather job last year. In the fourth quarter, about 10 top schools, including Stanford and Cornel, conducted lobbying on taxes.
They often built their litigation for what they claimed, if they had to pay more government bills: especially for low -income students to support research and tuition fees. Money to do.
For example, at the University of Wesrian, according to Wesrian President Michael S. Loss, last year it reached $ 85 million and provided services to 1,500 students.
“It's a real money,” said Dr. Ross. He added that the tax increase would be difficult for universities to support students. He said, “That means we provide services to valuable applicants.” Dr. Ross does not hire an external lobbyist, but instead. He said that he would support students using.
Bar also stated that if the Trump administration targeted funds for research, the university would be affected. He stated that the National Institute of Health and Diseases has recently issued instructions to stop public communication, research nutrition reviews, travel and training for scientists.
In the evening of Monday, the administration paused several trillion trillions with the financing of the federal subsidy. The Federal judge was blocked about 24 hours later, but only after the day's confusion and turmoil for the campus leader.
Ted Mitchell, chairman of the American Education Council, represented over more than 1,600 campuses nationwide, calling him the “most irresponsible public policy.” The organization called for an order reversal. The White House was away from the order on Wednesday.
The suspension was designed to give time to the government to determine whether the subsidy matched Mr. Trump's priority. In fiscal 2023, the university received nearly $ 60 billion in federal funds for research.
Barbara Snider, the chairman of the American University Association, pointed out that an anger explosion in Washington, including the most prominent schools in Japan, is not always a new one.
“I'm more challenging than 20 years ago,” but she said, “I don't think this was all overnight.”
Even if the university has called for defense, there was no consensus between them, how to approach Trump's second repetition.
“Our institution,” Snider said, “There is a unique way to do these things.”
