In a span of 13 weeks, President Trump has begun leveraging billions in federal grants and contracts to influence higher education, aiming to increase conservative representation on campuses. Critics argue his approach lacks proper investigation or justification, and may reshape the future of postsecondary education. John King Jr. highlights the threat to the traditional partnerships between the government and educational institutions. Furthermore, conservative analysts are devising strategies to impose a new ideology onto colleges, exemplified by advocates like Chris Rufo witnessing their policy ideas become reality through governmental actions.
"It's certainly unprecedented and deeply disturbing," said John King Jr., former secretary of education under President Obama and current chancellor of the State University of New York system. Trump's actions "really threaten the long-standing partnership between the federal government and higher education in the pursuit of both innovation and economic mobility."
Chris Rufo, an influential anti-DEI advocate, noted that, "At the beginning it felt like I was the only one fighting. Now, fast-forward five years, [and] some of the ideas that I had cobbled together have suddenly become reality, they've become policy, they affect billions of dollars in the flow of funds."
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