Overview

• On HBO’s Real Time Maher said universities have long silenced opposing viewpoints and become “indoctrination factories” lacking intellectual diversity.
• He voiced conditional support for President Trump’s use of federal funding leverage to force higher education institutions to eliminate DEI programs and address antisemitism.
• The Trump administration has already withheld billions in research grants from Ivy League schools including Columbia, Harvard and Yale under DOE directives.
• Earlier this year Brown University agreed to end race-based admissions considerations and settle discrimination probes to restore its federal research funding.
• A Department of Education letter warned all colleges that failure to dismantle DEI initiatives could result in cuts to federal financial support.