UMass medical school implements hiring and spending freeze, considers layoffs
Mar. 12, 2025 - Leaders at UMass Chan Medical School are freezing hiring and spending, citing ongoing uncertainty surrounding federal funding.
2025 Policy and Budget Announcements
As Universities Eliminate DEI Programming, Harvard Stays Its Course
Mar. 11, 2025 - Harvard is quietly maintaining its diversity initiatives and sometimes actively defending diversity on campus.
NYU appoints Title VI coordinator as Trump cracks down on Columbia
Mar. 11, 2025 - NYU President Linda Mills announced the overdue appointment of the university’s Title VI coordinator amid the Trump administration’s recent crackdown on Columbia University.
Pregnant and parenting students fall victim to lawsuit targeting LGBTQ rights
Mar. 11, 2025 - When a federal judge scrapped new Title IX rules for LGBTQ students, expanded protections for student parents were tossed out, too.
Update: Federal judge imposes preliminary injunction on NIH spending cuts - The Tufts Daily
Mar. 11, 2025 - U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley imposed a preliminary injunction on the National Institutes of Health, preventing the cuts on indirect medical research costs from taking effect nationwide.
NIH cancels $250 million in grants to Columbia as part of $400 million Trump administration cut
Mar. 11, 2025 - The National Institutes of Health announced that the agency is cancelling $250 million in grants to Columbia as part of the Trump administration’s $400 million cut to University funding.
Education Department announces massive layoffs, slashing nearly half its workforce
Mar. 11, 2025 - The agency’s employee count will plummet from 4,133 when President Donald Trump was inaugurated to about 2,183.
NASA begins mass firings of scientists ahead of Trump team’s deadline
Mar. 11, 2025 - Top advisers in the Office of the Chief Scientist are among the first to go amid downsizing effort.
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Mar. 11, 2025 - Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
Faculty Searches in Limbo As Freeze Interrupts Hiring Processes Across Harvard
Mar. 11, 2025 - Harvard’s imposition of a hiring freeze interrupted faculty hiring processes across the University, leaving professors scrambling to figure out how to fill vacancies — and how to keep their departments’ work running if they can’t.
Olinto mandates in-person classes and exams amid ICE presence around campus
Mar. 11, 2025 - University Provost Angela Olinto wrote that all classes and exams must continue in person as scheduled in a Monday morning email to Columbia faculty obtained by Spectator, urging “generosity and mutual patience as we navigate this together.”
Lamont cuts spending at CT public colleges, other agencies
Mar. 10, 2025 - Gov. Ned Lamont took $41 million from more than a dozen agencies, including more than $6 million from public colleges and universities he pledged to shield
Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research
Mar. 10, 2025 - More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted
Pitt institutes hiring freeze at least through June in response to funding uncertainties
Mar. 10, 2025 - The freeze will remain in place through the end of the current fiscal year (June 30) and may be extended into the next fiscal year.
DOGE-mandated cuts targeted staff at a Native American college. A lawsuit fights back
Mar. 10, 2025 - Federal layoffs at Haskell Indian Nations University disrupted classes, financial aid and the women's basketball team. Now, tribes and students have sued, saying the cuts broke treaty obligations.
How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts
Mar. 10, 2025 - Abrupt cuts by the Trump administration to the US National Institutes of Health threaten progress in medical research globally.
Education Department warns 60 colleges it could take action over antisemitism concerns
Mar. 10, 2025 - The letters escalate the Trump administration’s scrutiny of how colleges are handling student protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
‘America can’t be great without great science. That is where the Academies can help.’
Mar. 10, 2025 - Recent actions by the federal government affecting agencies that fund science in the United States have sent shock waves through the research community.
Harvard Announces Hiring Freeze
Mar. 10, 2025 - Amid funding uncertainties, the University prepares for austerity.
UWashington | Working together to address the financial risks facing our University
Mar. 9, 2025 - Given the challenges we now face at the federal and state levels, we expect that some level of budget cuts will become necessary, and the time has now come to expand our financial sustainability efforts.
Universities are facing big cuts to research funding. At Duke, it's a time for 'damage control'
Mar. 8, 2025 - Last year, the school brought in about 130 students, said Beth Sullivan, who oversees the school’s 17 biomedical Ph.D. programs.
Scott Delaney: Google Sheet to track NIH grant cancellations
Mar. 7, 2025 - NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Mar. 7, 2025 - Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.
Notre Dame announces hiring freeze ‘effective immediately’
Mar. 7, 2025 - The university cited recent executive orders and federal agency directives, saying changes on the horizon have a direct bearing on Notre Dame’s finances.
Trump administration cuts $400 million in federal funding to Columbia
Mar. 7, 2025 - The cuts come just days after the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced it was considering stop work orders on $51.4 million in contracts with the University.
Duke Arts & Sciences Council addresses federal funding cuts, details implementation of new Constellations, Century Courses
Mar. 7, 2025 - Gary Bennett, dean of the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, and Executive Vice President Daniel Ennis spoke to the council about possible financial threats to Duke in light of recent federal funding cuts.
Department of Justice to investigate antisemitism claims against the University of California
Mar. 7, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Justice announced the launch of an investigation into allegations of antisemitism at the University of California under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
MIT Biology graduate program reduces incoming PhD class size by 20% | The Tech
Mar. 6, 2025 - The reduction is due to “uncertainty in the federal funding environment.”
Tougher H-1B Visa Scrutiny Anticipated as Annual Lottery Opens
Mar. 6, 2025 - US businesses looking to add high-skilled foreign talent on H-1Bs face the potential for stringent scrutiny from the Trump administration if they come out on top of the annual lottery for the specialty occupation visas.
Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
Mar 6, 2025 - The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' conduct and speech.