Trump's Higher Education Crackdown at Year One: What Has Stuck, What Has Collapsed, and What Is Still Being Fought

Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, and the University of Michigan are under federal investigation for "inaccurate and untimely" foreign funding disclosures — the latest front in the Trump administration's year-long crackdown on America's elite universities.

One year into President Trump's second term, his administration's campaign to reshape American higher education has produced a landscape of partial victories, significant legal defeats, institutional disruption, and policy changes that have left universities, students, and faculty navigating unprecedented uncertainty. The administration moved fast, broadly, and in many cases without following established legal procedures — a pattern that courts have repeatedly penalized even as they have occasionally sided with the administration on the merits.

Here is a comprehensive scorecard of where things stand.