As college campuses are targeted, some warn that the Trump administration’s efforts are helping reinforce antisemitic tropes.

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 said he would welcome the opportunity to work with the White House in an email to Harvard affiliates just hours after the Trump administration initiated a review of more than $8 billion in federal funding.

Claire Shipman, Columbia University’s new acting president, had called last year's congressional hearings on campus antisemitism "nonsense" in a text to the former university president.

Katrina Armstrong, Columbia University’s interim president, stepped down on Friday as the school faced criticism over campus antisemitism, including the threat of losing $400 million in federal funding.

The investigation is the latest move by the Trump administration to pressure American universities to change their policies on a number of issues at the heart of culture wars that have beset the U.S.

Columbia University’s new president once called Congressional hearings on campus antisemitism “Capitol Hill nonsense.”

In the Trump administration’s campaign to punish colleges and universities for their response to pro-Palestine protests, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act has emerged as the clear legal weapon of choice.

Amid a slew of antisemitic incidents on campus since Oct. 7, Georgetown issued statements strongly supporting a student detained by immigration authorities for alleged Hamas ties