Since taking office, President Donald Trump has been forcing higher education to reform, going after institutions like Harvard University and cutting deals with other selective colleges.

The Trump administration’s attacks on higher education didn’t come out of nowhere.

MassLive recently published an article examining how, in 2023, an overhaul of New College of Florida, the state’s only public liberal arts college, has been a blueprint used by the Trump administration to inform attempts at overhauling higher education.

Since 2023, the majority of board-of-trustees positions at New College are now in conservative hands, gender studies and diversity, equity and inclusion work was abolished, the college broke ground on a divisive new collegiate athletic program and more than 100 of th

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