President Donald Trump's administration has terminated University of Tennessee System research project grants collectively valued at $37.65 million, including 25 terminations at the flagship Knoxville campus and eight at the UT Institute of Agriculture.

But through those discussions is the subtext that higher education is dependent on federal subsidies. There is some truth to this when it comes to Pell grants and backstopping student loans. But with grants to fund scientific research,

The Trump administration won’t provide Harvard University with any new federal grants, Education Secretary Linda McMahon told the school Monday in the latest escalation of the continuing battle between the government and the country’s most prominent university.