Trump Administration Higher Education Reforms are Sweeping but Not Unprecedented

Originally published by Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Restoration

On Wednesday, the Trump Administration announced a major victory in its campaign to defend Americans’ civil rights. Following a Department of Justice probe, the University of Virginia (UVA) agreed to terminate a host of racially discriminatory practices and to protect women’s sports and intimate facilities from intrusion by transgender (male) athletes.

As I describe in a new report by the America First Policy Institute, President Trump has done what none of his predecessors dared to do: he has seized the reins of the civil rights state to implement a conservative civil rights agenda centered on equal treatment under the law.

To the great consternation of many academics, elite universities are ground zero in this fight. The blatant disregard these institutions showed towards the civil rights and safety of Jewish students during last year’s campus antisemitism crisis created an opening to address a much larger pattern of civil rights abuses. The Administration has also targeted free speech violations, and viewpoint discrimination—the wellspring for so much of the fanaticism that reins unchallenged on American campuses.

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