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California vs. Trump: Angst in higher education
Students at a graduation ceremony at Santa Monica City College. (Photo: American Spirit, via Shutterstock)In an effort to reassure thousands of worried young people, leaders of California’s enormous system of public and private higher education are setting it on a potential collision course with the incoming Trump administration. The California defiance has intensified and become more formalized since Donald Trump indicated he will appoint Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, an avowed hard-liner on immigration, as his attorney general.