What would a second Trump administration mean for higher education? Summing up Project 2025

What happens to higher education if Trump wins November’s election? We’ve been exploring this question over the past year, including months of reading, analysis, reflection, and conversation about Project 2025 might mean for higher education.  Today I’d like to sum up what we found. The book, Mandate for Leadership, addresses academia directly on multiple levels.  I’ll break them down here.  The implications for the broader society within which colleges and universities exist – that’s a subject for another post. I’ve organized the various ideas and threads into several headers: the Department of Education, higher education economics, international education and research,... [Read more...]