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Nathan Greenfield
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North American Correspondent for University World News
Author: 7 Military Histories (Canada in both world wars)
Born: Brooklyn, NY
BA: Bard College
MA: McGill University
PhD: McGill University
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My latest in University World News...on the Trump Compact
A death warrant for academic freedom

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HE leaders brand Trump’s compact for HE as ‘extortion’
The Trump administration’s compact offered to nine elite universities has provoked alarm among higher education leaders. It demands surrender of aca...
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October 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Kirk assassination raises the political stakes for HE
Comments by United States President Donald Trump and his supporters at the memorial service of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk confirmed the worst fe...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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The books are ash, but these librarians refuse to give up
The bombing of the main library of the Sumy State University in northeast Ukraine by Russian military on the eve of talks between the US and Ukrainian...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Trump is ‘catalyst, not cause’ of HE decline – Pasquerella
Although unsparing in her critique of United States President Donald Trump and some of his key cabinet appointees, Lynn Pasquerella, president of the ...
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September 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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US erecting new barriers for international students – Experts
Citing both “national security” and “fraud and abuse” of international student visas, the United States Department of Homeland Security has an...
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August 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Supreme Court greenlights US$783m in health research cuts
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson hits out at a Supreme Court decision to support the termination of hundreds of millions of dolla...
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August 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Hispanic-serving institutions under legal threat
The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities is intervening in a case brought by the state of Tennessee and an anti-diversity organisation ag...
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August 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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At 11 a.m. you will find me being interviewed on the Trump Putin meeting.

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The Evan Bray Show
Evan Bray is the voice of Saskatchewan. Many know him as the former chief of the Regina Police Service. But Br...
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August 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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My latest in University World News...on the DoJ declaring DEI illegal

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Global Edition
The Global Window on Higher Education
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August 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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My latest in University World News

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The Global Window on Higher Education
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July 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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United States withdraws from UNESCO for the third time
Citing ‘national interest’, the United States announced on 22 July that it would be withdrawing from the United Nations Educational, Scientific an...
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July 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Trump proposes 90% cut to funding of tribal colleges
The Bureau of Indian Education’s request to the United States Congress to drastically cut funding support for Tribal Colleges and Universities will ...
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July 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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My latest in University World News...

On Trump's plan to cut funding for basic research by 34 percent

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The Global Window on Higher Education
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July 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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My latest in University World News...

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Saving Maori culture and improving student access, success
New Zealand’s Te Wananga o Aotearoa – one of the nation’s Maori tertiary education institutions – illustrates how culture can help improve edu...
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July 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Trump’s ‘Big Bill’ to cost students, universities billions
Donald Trump’s budget reconciliation law dramatically downsizes the US federal government’s role in financing colleges and universities, and inclu...
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July 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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My latest in University World News

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Harvard fights back as antisemitism battle escalates
The Trump administration significantly escalated its battle with Harvard over how it addressed antisemitism on Monday, formally accusing the universit...
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July 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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U of T figures prominently in the story below

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US universities plan refuge for blocked foreign students
Two US universities find partner institutions in Toronto and London to offer academic shelter to students who are unable to study in America due to th...
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July 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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US universities plan refuge for blocked foreign students
Two US universities find partner institutions in Toronto and London to offer academic shelter to students who are unable to study in America due to th...
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July 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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My latest in University World News..
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US universities plan refuge for blocked foreign students
Two US universities find partner institutions in Toronto and London to offer academic shelter to students who are unable to study in America due to th...
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July 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Biomedical research enters new era amid global shifts
Ageing populations in Pacific Rim countries are causing universities in the region to reorientate what and to whom they teach and are driving their re...
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July 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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My latest in University World News...a deep dive into the cuts to Alzheimer's research..

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The social cost of federal cuts to Alzheimer’s research
Scientists conducting breakthrough research in Alzheimer’s disease say the withdrawal of their United States federal funding on the basis of their p...
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June 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Critics say Ontario’s new bill threatens academic freedom
Critics believe a new bill that will give the Ontario provincial government powers to set criteria and processes that the province’s post-secondary ...
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June 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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My latest in University World News...on the plumiting interest of international students for coming to the US to study.
And Trump's efforts to defund Harvard

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Trump’s ongoing attacks on HE ‘reverberate across borders’
Latest figures from Studyportals, the world’s largest study choice platform, show that the Trump administration’s continued attacks on major unive...
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May 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Crowded Rome...but Roma!
May 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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My latest in University World News...on Secretary McMahon's (poorly written) letter telling Harvard not to apply for grants.

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Harvard stands firm against Trump’s ‘retaliatory’ threats
Harvard University has accused the United States government of making new threats to “illegally withhold funding for lifesaving research and innovat...
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May 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM