“Saving Higher Ed from Tyranny,” is the theme of the Spring Issue of ACADEME, which you can download and read here.

Michael Ferguson writes: “Executive orders have been Trump’s weapon of choice in his assault on our institutions. In a special series organized for this issue by Jonathan Feingold and Veena Dubal, legal scholars break down the implications of key orders affecting federal grants, transgender students, noncitizens, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and campus protests. Trump’s actions reveal an administration fixated on higher education, ready to use the thinnest pretexts to justify targeting universities. As Feingold and Dubal put it, the executive orders “bind a common project: to eliminate the institutions and individuals best positioned to resist Trump’s claim to be king.”