Over the past year, the Trump administration has leveraged federal civil rights laws to transform higher education governance at some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions. Through a combination of funding freezes, settlements, and unprecedented accreditation pressure, the Department of Education (ED) and the White House have effected sweeping policy changes from elite universities under the banner of enforcing Title VI and Title IX.
Beyond the Credential Factory: Why Higher Education Must Shift from Management to Flourishing
For decades, higher education leadership has obsessed over “student success” as a purely operational metric. We track retention and graduation rates and postgraduation outcomes with the same linear precision that
Yoshitaka Iwasaki
August 3, 2026
