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May Mailman, a key figure in the Trump administration, is leading the effort to pressure universities, particularly Harvard, through various means including investigations and negotiations. The article details her influence in shaping policies related to higher education, gender, and admissions, and her role in settlements with universities.

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She is credited as an animating force behind a strategy that has intimidated independent institutions and undercut years of medical and scientific research.The policies Ms. Mailman helped devise \u2014 and is now leveraging as she leads the White House\u2019s negotiations with colleges \u2014 have sent shock waves through higher education, dividing faculty and alarming some students who see an effort to silence dissent. The aggressive tactics could have far-reaching implications for the future of academic freedom, the admissions practices at the most competitive colleges and the global reputations for some of the crown jewels of the nation\u2019s university system.So far, only Harvard has been willing to fight back in court, a sign of the strength of the federal government\u2019s negotiating position.\u201cThere are a lot of good ideas floating around this building, but somebody has to capture those ideas, make sure that the right people are involved and that there is a process to put them into action,\u201d Ms. Mailman said in a recent interview at the White House. \u201cSo I\u2019m the catcher of floating ideas.\u201dShe glanced up from her hands, folded in her lap.\u201cAlthough,\u201d she added, \u201cI try to have some good ideas of my own every once in a while.\u201dImageSo far, Harvard is the only school that has chosen to fight back against the Trump administration in court, a sign of the strength of the government\u2019s negotiating position.Credit...Sophie Park for The New York TimesMs. Mailman wrote the executive orders Mr. Trump signed on his first day in office that redefined the federal government\u2019s stance on sex to acknowledge only two genders and dismantled policies aimed at promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. By June, these changes had forced the University of Pennsylvania to align its athletic policies with the administration\u2019s view that transgender girls and women should be banned from participating in women\u2019s sports.She had a direct hand in the effort to prevent Harvard from enrolling international students, which unnerved the university\u2019s leadership and student body and which a court has temporarily halted. And last month, Ms. Mailman closed a $221 million deal with Columbia University, the administration\u2019s largest settlement to date.To understand the scope of Ms. Mailman\u2019s influence, The Times reviewed emails and other government records surfaced in court cases targeting the Trump administration, mined her interviews on conservative podcasts and other media appearances and interviewed more than a dozen current and former colleagues.ImageMs. Mailman has worked closely with Stephen Miller, now the deputy chief of staff, during both Trump administrations.Credit...Pete Marovich for The New York TimesMs. Mailman also agreed to the interview in her West Wing office, located directly next to the office of Mr. Miller, just before she stepped down from her position as a White House senior policy strategist, pregnant with her third child. She has continued to take the lead in vexing \u2014 and negotiating with \u2014 universities as a senior adviser for special projects.The biggest prize for Mr. Trump, and Ms. Mailman, remains Harvard.Talks appeared to be moving forward, with the university signaling it was open to spending $500 million to reach a resolution. Still, on Friday, the administration dialed up the pressure once more, with a new investigation involving patents that the university derided as \u201cyet another retaliatory effort targeting Harvard for defending its rights and freedom.\u201dA Bush admirer heads to Trump\u2019s White House.Ms. Mailman said she did not join the second Trump administration to take down Harvard, where she mostly enjoyed her time as a graduate student.Instead, she was recruited by Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, and Mr. Miller because of her various roles in the White House during Mr. Trump\u2019s first term. For the second term, she would help with the transition, write Mr. Trump\u2019s deluge of initial executive orders and help set up a process for turning his campaign promises into policy. She had always planned to depart after six months, she said.In that time, Ms. Mailman became a crucial component of one of the White House\u2019s most divisive endeavors \u2014 a sprawling political and legal bid to root out perceived liberal bias from colleges and deter the use of race in admissions.The gender-based executive orders she wrote prompted opposition from human rights advocates who argued the directives perpetuate discrimination. Student and faculty groups have accused the administration of trampling on the First Amendment in trying to dictate who schools can hire, what students they can admit and which subjects they can teach.\u201cIf you normalize the use of federal power like this, then academic freedom is just a memory and universities become political footballs and no longer useful instruments in the search for truth,\u201d said Adam Goldstein, the vice president of strategic initiatives at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free speech group.ImageA protest at Columbia University earlier this year. The school reached a $221 million settlement with the Trump administration last month. Credit...Graham Dickie\/The New York TimesInside the White House, Ms. Mailman\u2019s ruthless efficiency and engaging personality has earned her praise from superiors and loyalty from junior staff members. Despite her fearsome role in dragging university lawyers to the negotiating table, some who have made deals with the government have privately complimented her pragmatism in balancing competing interests within the administration with the universities\u2019 needs.\u201cMay has been one of the most indispensable, gifted and dedicated staffers and lawyers in the Trump administration since Day 1,\u201d Mr. Miller said in a statement.Born in the South, raised in the Midwest, and educated on the East Coast, Ms. Mailman has spent much of her life collecting ideas from disparate places and weaving them together.Her father, Dr. Duncan Davis, was administering vaccines to children in South Korea in the 1980s when he met her mother, Kyungae Davis, who was teaching in one of the schools he visited. They moved to the United States, married and gave birth to their first child, Sylvia May Davis, in 1988.The family eventually settled in Kansas, first in Goodland and then in Clay Center, both small, predominantly white towns. In both, less than 1 percent of residents were Asian, like Ms. Mailman\u2019s mother, or two or more races, like Ms. Mailman.Ms. Mailman said her dark features stood out, and made her an easy target for schoolyard taunts, but she learned to parry by using her wits. She has a blunt and candid conversational style, and an easy proficiency with profanity.At Clay Center\u2019s high school, Ms. Mailman is pictured in nearly every activity in the yearbook.ImageMs. Mailman said she learned to use her wits to parry schoolyard taunts in her small Kansas hometown. Credit...Haiyun Jiang\/The New York TimesShe was also becoming increasingly curious about Republican politics.At the University of Kansas, where she majored in journalism, Ms. Mailman joined the college Republicans. She recalled the surprising inspiration she felt attending a campaign event for President George W. Bush while living in Lawrence, Kan.\u201cGeorge Bush\u2019s image in the news when I was in college was someone you might get a beer with, but also sleepy and dimwitted,\u201d Ms. Mailman said. \u201cBut then, in person, he felt energetic and warm, and there was an enthusiasm in the crowd. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s what people feel going to their first Trump rally. And I started volunteering after that.\u201dIn 2012, she enrolled at Harvard Law School, where she was remembered as fun and outspoken by some classmates, and outrageous or over-the-top by others.After graduating in 2015, she moved to Denver to join a midsize law firm. A former Harvard classmate, William Payne, texted her 15 months later asking if she would like to work in the \u201ccenter of the universe.\u201dShe had no desire, Ms. Mailman told him, to move to New York.Mr. Payne said he meant the White House.During her four years with the first Trump administration, she gained unique access to the president and his aides, including Mr. Miller, frequently traveling with Mr. Trump and his core advisers.She left the White House in the days after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, took a job as deputy solicitor general of Ohio and married David Mailman, a former baseball player with a corporate job in Cleveland. They moved to Houston, had their first child in 2022 and a second in 2024.But she was not done with Washington, or Mr. Trump.\u2018The issue picked me.\u2019In 2024, Ms. Mailman was named the director of the Independent Women\u2019s Law Center. The center is a project of the Independent Women\u2019s Forum, a Virginia-based nonprofit created by a coalition of women who supported Justice Clarence Thomas during his contentious nomination hearings in the early 1990s.ImageMs. Mailman, as director of the Independent Women\u2019s Law Center, outside the federal appeals court in Denver last year. Credit...David Zalubowski\/Associated PressAt the law center, Ms. Mailman quickly immersed herself in issues that animated Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign and would deeply inform the domestic agenda in his second term, such as rolling back protections for transgender people. She fought against Biden administration policies that had extended discrimination protections to transgender students. And she focused on the University of Pennsylvania, where Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer, had broken records on the women\u2019s team in 2022. Ms. Mailman also represented Allie Coghan, who sued her University of Wyoming sorority in 2023 for allowing a transgender woman into their chapter.Ms. Mailman\u2019s work with the group, where she is returning after leaving the White House, landed her on the \u201chate and extremism\u201d section of the website for GLAAD, one of the country\u2019s leading L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy groups.Ms. Mailman said her views on gender aligned with the philosophical underpinnings of her politics, which she described as a kind of libertarianism that abhors political correctness.\u201cThe issue picked me,\u201d she said.In recent weeks, a combination of funding cuts and civil rights investigations resulted in settlements with Columbia and Brown University. Ms. Mailman is in active negotiations with other elite schools, Cornell University and Northwestern University, along with Harvard.She said that whether Harvard was willing to go beyond existing requirements to show how race factored into its admissions process would largely determine whether the government would sign off on an agreement.\u201cIf Harvard wants this deal, then I think the same way that UPenn needed to focus on gender ideology is the same way Harvard needs to focus on racial admissions,\u201d Ms. Mailman said.\u201cWe don\u2019t want to run these universities,\u201d Ms. Mailman added. \u201cWe want some sweeping changes that set things in the right trajectory.\u201dAlain Delaqu\u00e9ri\u00e8re contributed research.Michael C. Bender is a Times correspondent in Washington.See more on: U.S. Politics, Brown University, Harvard University, Donald Trump, Stephen MillerRead 173 CommentsShare full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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