Week in Review: What the Trump Administration Should Do

The Goldwater Institute exposed how the Biden Administration targeted one of the nation’s most successful private colleges. Now the Trump Administration can make things right.

The Biden Administration launched an unprecedented assault on Phoenix-based Grand Canyon University, complete with a record $37.7 million fine and a threat from the Secretary of Education to “shut down” the school. Making matters worse, a Goldwater lawsuit against the federal government revealed that Education Department bureaucrats and the White House coordinated the attack on GCU.

When it takes office, the Trump Administration should end the blitz, Goldwater VP for Litigation Jon Riches writes in the Washington Times.

“This would not only right the injustice done to GCU, but also make clear the broader principle that higher education should be a domain of innovation and student achievement—not a fiefdom for ideological conformity and bureaucratic rule,” Riches concludes.

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Survey Says: DEI Is Toxic

A new study confirms what common sense tells us about racially divisive DEI initiatives.

“Students taught the key ideas in ‘anti-racism’ and ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI) efforts are more likely to imagine the presence of racism when there is no evidence for it,” Goldwater’s Timothy K. Minella writes, recapping a study that confirms that so-called “education” in DEI concepts “produces utterly perverse outcomes.”

That’s why the Goldwater Institute is working to pass our suite of reforms to end the DEI regime in states around the nation. We’ve already eliminated DEI in numerous states just this year alone, with more on the way in 2025.

“This poisonous ideology will destroy the bonds that unite us as Americans—if we allow it,” Minella writes. We won’t.

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Exposing the Advanced Placement Monopoly

An unaccountable taxpayer-funded organization is using the immense power of its curriculum monopoly to embrace race-based dogmas and censor classic history books.

The College Board masquerades as a nonprofit and professes its commitment to academic rigor and political neutrality via Advanced Placement (AP) courses. In reality, it is a billion-dollar corporation that pays its CEO a $2 million salary—all while dictating the curriculum for millions of schoolchildren, a new Goldwater Institute report reveals. And worryingly, the College Board’s AP course frameworks have embraced ideologically driven, leftist views of their subjects.

Goldwater’s report recommends commonsense reforms to end the AP monopoly, allow superior alternatives to emerge, and eliminate syllabus secrecy—because bright high schoolers seeking a jumpstart on college credits deserve better than lectures on progressive activism.

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