"In its latest guidance on higher education reform, the conservative Heritage Foundation endorses the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to leverage executive power to overhaul the American higher education system by pushing colleges to comply with right-wing priorities and demanding accountability. At the same time, it urges the White House to minimize federal oversight and focus instead on dismantling the Education Department and shifting its duties to the states."
"Released Jan. 26, the Heritage Foundation's new report, "Themes of Higher Education Reform," builds upon the higher ed groundwork laid by Project 2025, the far more detailed governing blueprint that the Trump administration adopted when it cracked down on DEI practices, deported international students and gutted the department's staff. Key areas of the new brief focus on how to strengthen the administration's proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" and use an upcoming rulemaking session to reconstruct the accreditation system."
Heritage Foundation endorses the Trump administration's use of executive power to push conservative priorities across colleges while urging reduced federal oversight. Heritage calls for dismantling the Education Department and transferring many of its functions to state authorities. The plan builds on Project 2025 and promotes strengthening the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence and using rulemaking to reconstruct accreditation. Heritage suggests state leaders assume some responsibilities and urges officials, including former Heritage staff now in the administration, to maintain reform momentum without expanding federal authority. The approach aims to solidify recent policy changes rather than propose broad new initiatives.
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