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Scores of international students and scholars across the country have recently learned that their visas have been abruptly revoked, according to university leaders, leaving college officials scrambling to understand what is happening and how to advise frightened students, the Washington Post reports.

A crackdown on foreign students is alarming colleges, who say the Trump administration is using new tactics and vague justifications to push some students out of the country, the Associated Press reports.

The Department of Government Efficiency has struck higher ed institutions once again—this time through the National Endowment for the Humanities, Inside Higher Ed reports.

“The fallout over the Trump administration’s imposition of a cap on National Institutes of Health payments for indirect costs on university research grants is spreading as more people begin to realize the full implications of the decision,” Forbes reports.

Days into President Donald Trump’s second term, colleges and universities are confronting sweeping, fast-moving challenges that touch on almost every aspect of their operations, the Washington Post reports.

“The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday made a significant reduction in grants reserved for research institutions, a decision that may significantly impact American higher education,” the Hill reports.

“The National Institutes of Health plans to cut billions of dollars in reimbursements to medical researchers, a move scientists warn could jeopardize their work in advancing cures for diseases,” Bloomberg reports.

The White House’s sudden pause on federal grants and loans is drawing sharp criticism from education leaders, union officials and Democratic lawmakers, as President Donald J. Trump’s administration begins an across-the-board ideological review of its spending, Diverse Education reports.

As a federal judge temporarily blocks part of the Trump administration’s pausing of federal grants and loans Tuesday, a slew of advocacy groups, charities, foreign aid and public health programs are decrying a potential upending of American lives on an unprecedented scale, CNN reports.

A White House directive to pause federal grants and loans raised uncertainty and fears among many who depend on federal aid before a judge intervened Tuesday to temporarily block it from taking effect, the Associated Press reports.