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Kali Jerrard
National Association of Scholars
Excerpt: Higher education won’t reform without a fight. As we discussed in last week’s edition of CounterCurrent, “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) isn’t dead, and schools are either quietly or defiantly standing against the Trump administration’s education orders to curb DEI ideology and anti-Semitism on campuses.
The Trump administration has not explicitly endorsed a plan for education reform. But with the administration’s latest responses to Harvard and Columbia, a plan of sorts appears to be taking shape.
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For the good of the Nation, university leadership must seize this occasion to drive essential reforms—a process some began by adopting positions of institutional neutrality and improving policies related to campus protests. Before the end of 2026, I call on every postsecondary institution to describe to the American public your commitments to rigorous teaching, pathbreaking research, and national service—commitments that make our universities a bedrock institution of the American republic.
Now the administration is back with Compact 2.0, formally titled "A National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards." It includes some rhetorical flourishes intended to make it seem less threatening to teaching, learning and research. But make no mistake: It once again asks colleges and universities to align themselves with a far-right agenda at the expense of students’ education and the public’s well-being.
