Higher education institutions were in the president’s crosshairs from the moment he stepped foot in the White House for his second term. No matter if it’s funding, professors, international students or university leadership, no part of university life is safe under the Trump administration. “During the McCarthy period, that was the norm.”Many of the modern-day attacks on higher education come in the form of a war on diversity, equity and inclusion. Yet, the attacks on higher education continue anyway. These sieges of scholars, persecutions of professors and attacks on academics must stop before truth and knowledge become faded memories of a once-educated past.