While President #DonaldTrump’s crusade against American higher education has focused on the #IvyLeague and other elite private schools, #colleges of all types and in all 50 states have been hamstrung by his sweeping cuts to research funding. During the first six months of the Trump administration, federal agencies—primarily the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation—canceled more than 4,000 #grantawards worth an estimated $7 billion at over 600 colleges and universities. As intended, it has left #universities in blue states bleeding, but a new report from the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress shows that red state #schools have been hit nearly as hard. Read more at the link in our bio. (Photo: Getty Images)