WASHINGTON — When Professor Tamas Horvath, chair of Yale School of Medicine's comparative medicine program, learned that hiring a single international scholar would now cost his department $100,000 in federal visa fees — on top of an already strained budget — he reached a straightforward conclusion: "Our department is not in the position to finance such applications." It was a quiet admission with sweeping implications. Horvath's predicament is playing out at universities from New Haven to Gainesville, from Seattle to Austin. The Trump administration's second-term campaign against American higher education — encompassing immigration restrictions, DEI bans, funding freezes, and deportation...