The second Trump administration’s executive orders have reshaped higher education policy across campuses and states, and a growing wave of legal challenges—different issues, different courts, different timelines—has made the landscape even harder to follow.
Our printable guide offers a clear, up-to-date snapshot of the executive orders impacting higher education, to assist federal, state, and local stakeholders who need a quick reference to today’s fast-moving policy changes.
The interactive tracker lets you go deeper. You can scan the full slate of executive orders, generate your own one-pager, and use curated links to other leading executive order trackers across the field.
Last updated: November 12, 2025
Note: We are only tracking here the executive orders themselves, and challenges to them. Other trackers, such as one maintained by the Associated Press, provide information regarding many of the hundreds of lawsuits that have been filed seeking to block federal agency actions taken to implement the second Trump administration’s executive orders, and the status of those challenges, many of which have been successful to date.
