Federal Funding Upends Higher Education in 2025

The Trump administration just weaponized federal funding to completely reshape higher education

in 2025. Billions of dollars were withheld from hundreds of colleges, forcing them to

eliminate diversity programs or lose everything. The Education Department sent threatening

letters in February demanding schools stop considering race in admissions, investigating dozens

of universities by March. Seven in ten Americans now believe college education is heading

in the wrong direction according to Pew Research. University presidents started resigning

in frustration, including UVA's leader in June. A federal judge blocked some actions

in August for ignoring proper procedures, but the damage was already done. Education experts