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On Thursday, Oct. 16, several Claremont and national labor organizing groups held a teach-in at the Motley Coffeehouse in response to Pomona College’s Café 47 switching their supplier from Peet’s Coffee to Starbucks Coffee.
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It was not a given that the proffered Trump “compact” for colleges would be dead on arrival. When the administration offered its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” to nine universities earlier this month, it was the latest volley in a long campaign to bring higher education to heel.
The Supreme Court’s recent decision permitting the executive branch to withhold congressionally appropriated foreign aid funds could have far-reaching implications for higher education.
WASHINGTON, DC (October 17, 2025)—The Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education opens with the assertion that “American higher education is the envy of the world and represents a key strategic benefit for our Nation.” We wholeheartedly agree. Yet we are deeply concerned that the compact’s prescriptions threaten to undermine the very qualities that make our system exceptional.
Iowa lawmakers are urging the Iowa Board of Regents to sign on to a new educational compact that would require universities to freeze tuition, make changes to admission processes for international students and poll campus communities annually about their compliance with the compact.
WASHINGTON, DC (October 10, 2025)—American Jewish Committee, ACE, Hillel International, and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, groups representing the collegiate and broader Jewish communities and higher education leaders, are deeply alarmed by inflammatory social media posts and rhetoric targeting trustees.
On Sept. 17, the day after Elon University and Queens University of Charlotte announced plans to merge, a full-page ad appeared in Elon’s student newspaper, The Pendulum.