“University leaders are bracing for an onslaught of aggressive legislation and regulations amid growing hostility from an ascendant Republican Party that depends less and less on college-educated voters,” the Washington Post reports.
“For years, conservatives have seen colleges and universities as unwelcoming and disdainful of their values.
Tensions between Republicans and higher education have been rising over questions of free speech, the cost of college, diversity, race and more.”“Now that rift has become a rupture.”