A memorial on the Brown University campus in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday.

A leader at the University of Texas said the institution would be eager to work with the Trump administration. Other universities have been more circumspect.

The policies that May Mailman has helped devise have sent shock waves through higher education, dividing faculty and alarming some students who see an effort to silence dissent.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is eliminating tuition starting next fall for all undergraduate students from families earning less than $200,000 per year.