Colleges and universities potentially face unprecedented financial strain under the Trump administration. While the most significant threat is cuts to funding for research, schools also potentially face cuts in financial aid and higher taxes on endowment. Washington Monthly Editor in Chief Paul Glastris and contributing editor Anne Kim speak with higher education finance expert Robert Kelchen, who leads the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Anne Kim is a Senior Editor at Washington Monthly and the author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor (New Press, 2024). Anne is also a Senior Fellow at FutureEd and the author of Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and...
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