College and university faculty, staff, researchers, and students are fed up. And for good reason: high-handed administrative and government attacks on curriculum, faculty governance, and tenure; the recent revocation of more than 1,700 previously authorized visas—hundreds of which have been restored—issued to international scholars and students; complicity between university policymakers and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE); and restrictions on how race, gender, sexuality, and history can be taught.
In response to the Trump Administration’s assault on education, the second National Day of Action for Higher Education on April 17 brought tens of thousands of academic activists together to voice their opposition to the administration’s actions and affirm higher education as a public good.
The day’s events—a mix of in-person marches, rallies, teach-ins, film screenings, banner drops, discussions, multiple on-campus unionization drives, and online webinars—were sponsored by the Coalition for Action in Higher Education (CAHE), which formed in 2024 and includes partners such as the American Association of University Professors, Higher Education Labor United, Historians for Peace and Democracy, and Jewish Voice for Peace.
