This week, the Trump administration won an important victory in the legal campaign being mounted by universities over funding of scientific research. Part of the Trump administration’s agenda has been reorienting federal support of research toward new priorities, including artificial intelligence (AI), computing infrastructure, and military needs. On April 18th of this year, the National […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the American Spectator on August 4, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A couple of weeks ago, Steve Moore and I revealed in this space that Census Bureau data shows that native-born Americans are fleeing high-tax states. But […]
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For more than six months, higher education leaders, most notably Ivy League presidents, have bemoaned what they view as threats to their very existence by the Trump Administration. Federal research grants have been reduced or even suspended. Students dependent on federal loans have been told that the terms of the loans are being tightened: for […]
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On Friday, August 1, a Federal District Court in New York gave Trump a win: Judge John P. Cronan allowed the President’s National Science Foundation Directive to remain in effect while being challenged in the court. The Directive terminates research grants for “things like misinformation and diversity, equity and inclusion,” among other subjects. Researchers were […]
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