The Trump administration’s expansion of travel restrictions to 39 countries, effective Jan. 1, immediately raised concerns on campuses that depend on international students, with Nigeria among the affected nations. The policy more than doubles the number of countries under U.S. entry limits and threatens pipelines of international tuition and research talent. The week-in-review also flagged financial strain and accreditation pressures at religious colleges—DePaul announced 114 staff layoffs while Christian Brothers plans 16 faculty cuts—plus a surge of legal fights over federal policies that affect higher education: a multistate lawsuit challenging a $100,000 H-1B application fee, and bipartisan lobbying to reclassify advanced nursing degrees to expand loan caps. Faculty and students in Alabama continue litigation over a state law restricting DEI programming, underlining the intersection of state policy and campus governance.