Want to get Academia’s attention? A president has three options, all within his executive authority:
- Cut off grants and other federal research monies
- Aggressive use of Title VI, VII, and IX investigations to ensure proper compliance
- Sever income streams from abroad via visa management
You could add “tax endowments” to that list, but that would require Congress to act. As Donald Trump is demonstrating, a president can use the three steps above to make universities and colleges know he’s serious about cleaning up campus unrest, especially that fomented by terrorist organizations abroad. According to Axios’ Marc Caputo, Trump has already begun planning Step 3:
The Trump administration is discussing plans to try to block certain colleges from having any foreign students if it decides too many are “pro-Hamas,” senior Justice and State Department officials tell…
