The administration’s flurry of executive orders, agency actions and new enforcement standards targeting campus speech and foreign‑influence issues has produced a wave of legal fights and policy tracking across higher education. Chronicle analysis is cataloging orders, agency guidance and litigation that collectively reshape federal oversight of colleges and universities. That enforcement backdrop is now colliding with faculty speech disputes on campuses. At the University of Kentucky, law professor Ramsi Woodcock filed suit after being reassigned amid calls for violent action against Israel; his complaint seeks reinstatement and challenges state and federal directives that press universities to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism in Title VI enforcement. Institutions and legal observers say the cases will test First Amendment boundaries, Title VI enforcement discretion, and how higher‑ed administrators respond to federal pressure.