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  • FILE – The Conn Student Union at Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn., is shown Friday, May 20, 2022. (Matt Hamilton//Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, File)Politics

    Foreign students are vital revenue source for colleges, including many small Christian schools. Now enrollment is sinking amid Trump policies

    By Luena Rodriguez-Feo Vileira, Makiya Seminera, and others
  • College studentSuccess

    Trump’s education reform hasn’t touched ‘affirmative action for the rich’: legacy admissions

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Linda McMahonPolitics

    Trump administration moves to freeze student-loan relief for workers at organizations with ‘substantial illegal purpose’

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • HarvardPolitics

    Harvard, Trump close to $500 million payment to settle federal funding freeze, source says

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    Trump wants Harvard to pay a lot more than the $200 million Columbia settled for, sources say

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    $1.6 trillion of student loans are up in the air as Trump moves in on the Department of Education

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Education Secretary Linda McMahon stands behind Donald TrumpPolitics

    Experts fear Trump will transform student loan forgiveness to be a ‘tool for political punishment’: ‘I could see entire cities being targeted’

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Jaelene, 9, works on a computer during a third grade English language arts class at Mount Vernon Community School, in Alexandria, Va., May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)Politics

    Trump administration withholds $6 billion for school programs to ensure money is ‘spent in accordance with the President’s priorities’

    By Collin Binkley, Bianca Vázquez Toness, and others
  • FILE – Students walk through Harvard Yard, April 27, 2022, on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)Politics

    Trump administration threatens to cut all Harvard funding after finding it violated Jewish students’ civil rights by tolerating antisemitism

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Rowers paddle down the Charles River near the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., March 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)Politics

    Federal judge blocks Trump effort to keep Harvard from hosting foreign students

    By Collin Binkley, Albee Zhang, and others
  • FILE – A relief sculpture rests on a gate to the entrance of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., March 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)Politics

    Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump order that bans foreign students from entering U.S. to attend Harvard

    By Chrissie Thompson, Collin Binkley, and others
  • FILE – People walk between buildings, Dec. 17, 2024, on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)Politics

    Trump moves to block nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a hearing of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)Politics

    Marco Rubio says State Department will start to ‘aggressively’ revoke visas of some Chinese students

    By Annie Ma, Collin Binkley, and others
  • Harvard University graduating senior Victor Flores claps while listening to a fellow student speak at a protest against President Donald Trump’s recent sanctions against Harvard in front of Science Center Plaza on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)Politics

    Trump administration asks federal agencies to cut $100 million in contracts with Harvard, adding to $2.6 billion in canceled grants

    By Darlene Superville, Collin Binkley, and others
  • A shot of Harvard's Dunster House and the Charles River in BostonPolitics

    Trump is forcing Harvard’s 6,800 foreign students to transfer right now or lose their legal status, dealing a potentially irreversible hit to U.S. attractiveness as a higher education destination

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press