Trump wants to overhaul the way colleges receive federal student loans and grants as part of DEI crackdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Of the seven executive orders related to education that Trump signed on Wednesday, one was aimed at changing the college accreditation process.
57% : Trump has previously called college accreditation his "secret weapon" to overhaul higher education in his vision.
50% : He has launched dozens of investigations into both K-12 and higher education institutions over practices that don't align with the administration's beliefs, like diversity policies.
46% : In a campaign video from 2023, Trump said that he will "fire the radical Left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist Maniacs and lunatics." "We will then accept applications for new accreditors who will impose real standards on colleges once again and once and for all," he said.
39% : More broadly, Trump signed an executive order calling for the entire Department of Education to be eliminated.
33% : Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, said in a statement that Trump is "weaponizing the accreditation process to gain the leverage he seeks."
32% : " "The result is more bureaucracy, less innovation, sprawling DEI administrative complexes, and burdensome oversight by unaccountable accreditors rather than state education leaders and duly appointed governing board members," McMahon said.

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