Trump administration pulls research funding for 23 CU Boulder projects
Apr. 29, 2025 - The projects were funded through the National Science Foundation.
2025 Policy and Budget Announcements
Pitt loses another $1 million research grant: 'These letters are driving fear'
Apr. 28, 2025 - The three-year research project aimed to help 1,500 middle school students become computer literate.
If NSF Snoozes, Then TACC’s “Horizon” Supercomputer Loses
Apr. 30, 2025 - It is a tumultuous time for any agency in the US government or any company or organization that depends on the US government for a sizable portion of its.
Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks
Apr. 30, 2025 - Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
Apr. 29, 2025 - The White House is expected to propose a budget for 2026 that would slash investments in science across the federal government.
University of Pennsylvania violated Title IX, Education Department charges
Apr. 28, 2025 - The agency has been threatening education institutions with the loss of federal funding if they allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.
Johns Hopkins announces new research investments to help those affected by federal policy changes
Apr. 28, 2025 - Wide-ranging support targets faculty, staff, and students whose research activities have been affected by unexpected grant terminations, delays, or other interruptions
Immigration status restored for all affected NYU students
Apr. 28, 2025 - The federal government reactivated immigration statuses for all NYU students affected by the Trump administration’s crackdown on noncitizens.
Harvard Renames Diversity Office As Trump Demands Dismantling of DEI
Apr. 28, 2025 - Harvard will immediately rename its Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging to “Community and Campus Life."
Wisconsin joins lawsuit challenging cuts to federal education funding over DEI
Apr. 28, 2025 - Wisconsin and 18 other states filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the Trump administration’s threats to cut funding for school districts that do not end diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Immigration status records restored for four Yale students
Apr. 27, 2025 - The federal government reactivated the visitor status records of all four Yale students whose records were previously terminated in a Department of Homeland Security database.
Immigration records for Brown students, recent grads reinstated
Apr. 28, 2025 - The students impacted by the visa revocations earlier this month had their status reactivated on Saturday.
UWisconsin-Madison Update on SEVIS terminations
Apr. 28, 2025 - UW-Madison can report that as of April 26, all 27 of its international students and alumni affected by SEVIS record terminations have been returned to active status.
Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns
Apr. 25, 2025 - Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly leaves helm of US funding agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE arrives.
Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center
Apr. 23, 2025 - A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk
Big Ten faculties ask their administrations to sign a joint defense pact against Trump
Apr. 25, 2025 - The potential pact would mark an escalation in resistance from universities to President Trump's push for them to follow his agenda.
How the Harvard Undergraduate Association Spends Half a Million Dollars a Year
Apr. 25, 2025 - More than 400 student clubs apply for funding from the HUA at the start of each semester, and the HUA divides around half a million dollars, among them.
Northwestern to receive over $220 million from foreign contracts, gifts made since 2020
Apr. 25, 2025 - Contributions have been made since 2020 amid deepening woes over the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign funding at universities.
Three Penn affiliates’ visas reinstated amid federal policy reversal
Apr. 25, 2025 - The reactivations come as the Trump administration walked back its cancellation of over 1,500 student visas nationwide on April 25.
1,433 students sign letter urging Yale to publicly resist Trump
Apr. 25, 2025 - Co-authored with the YCC and GSA, the letter calls on the University to defend academic freedom, institutional autonomy and the safety of students.
Research Funding at Brown
Apr. 25, 2025 - The Herald’s data desk dove into federal and institutional data to understand how research is funded at Brown.
Three weeks after Trump cut Princeton’s funding, no demands have been publicly issued. Here’s what we know.
Apr. 25, 2025 - Princeton has still yet to receive any demands, yet the $210 million in federal funding paused on April 1 remains frozen.
Harvard Management Company Plans $1 Billion Sale of Private Equity Stakes
Apr. 25, 2025 - Harvard Management Company is planning to sell nearly $1 billion of private equity fund stakes, liquidating nearly 5 percent of its private equity portfolio amid mounting threats to the University’s finances by its critics in Washington.
BC’s Most Popular Majors and Minors: Finance Retains the Top Spot
Apr. 25, 2025 - For the third consecutive year, finance is the most popular major at Boston College.
NSF, DOE funding changes impact Case Western Reserve University
Apr. 25, 2025 - President Eric Kaler sent a campus-wide email updating the Case Western Reserve University community on federal research funding and its effect on CWRU research operations.
Five research grants at Pitt are canceled, the highest number in Pennsylvania
Apr. 25, 2025 - The National Science Foundation has canceled 17 grants worth $7.3 million to Pennsylvania institutions of higher education.
The Guardian view on Trump v universities: essential institutions must defend themselves
Apr. 25, 2025 - Editorial: Harvard is leading the pushback because it can afford to fight. Others are realising that they can’t afford not to
A blandly titled law from 1946 may play a key role in Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration
Apr. 25, 2025 - Harvard claims Trump’s executive branch isn’t following federal rules for changing key government policies.
Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations
Apr. 25, 2025 - DOJ announced the reversal in federal court after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens of restraining orders issued by judges.
CRA | NSF Director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, Resigns
Apr. 24, 2025 - According to Science, the President’s budget request for NSF is likely to entail, “a 55% cut to the agency’s $9 billion budget next year and fire half its 1,700-person staff.” This news had not previously been reported.