Defending Higher Education in 2025

As higher education navigates the Trump administration, we’ve compiled resources to assist our members.

Attacks on Funding and Research:

• Talking Points: Higher Ed Research Saves Lives
• AFTvotes: 2025 Assaults on Higher Education—and What You Can Do
• AFT: Department of Education Talking Points Memo
• AFT: Protect-Don’t Wreck- Higher Education in 2025: Legislative and Executive Branch Threats
• NIH Indirect Costs: Guidance for Our Affiliates
• Sample FOIA/Info Request Language for NIH Grant Indirect Cost Rate
• Sample Public Records Act Language for NIH Grant Indirect Cost Rate

Attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

• Impact of Education Department Changes on Accessibility in Higher Education for People with Disabilities
• The Consequences of Attacks on Higher Education for HBCUs and Minority-Serving Institutions
• PEN America: For Federal Censorship of Higher Ed, Here’s What Could Happen in 2025
• Talking points: Pushing back on anti-DEI efforts and supporting DEI initiatives

Immigration:

• Returning to Campus for International Faculty
• Know Your Rights Guide: Academic Freedom and Campus Free Speech for Scholars and Students on Visas
• AFT Summer Travel Guide for International Faculty, Staff and Students in the United States
• AFT Immigration Poster: “You Are Welcome Here” for download in English and Spanish.
• AFT resource page on immigration

Antisemitism:

• Jewish Council for Public Affairs FACT SHEET: Jewish Safety and the Department of Education
• ASI Webinar: Antisemitism, Democracy, and the Assault on Knowledge & Education
• ASI + JCPA Resource: Partnering to Counter Antisemitism and Hate

More Information:

• Summary and Next Steps on Accreditation Executive Order
• Summary and Next steps on Foreign Gift Executive Order
• Risk-Sharing Proposals Harm Opportunity
• Project 2025 and Its Potential Impact on Higher Education