2025 Policy and Budget Announcements

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Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Will Keep Budget Flat, Stop Staff Hiring for Fiscal Year 2026

Mar. 12, 2025 - The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will aim to keep spending flat for fiscal year 2026 amid threats from the Trump administration and long-term financial concerns.

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Will Keep Budget Flat, Stop Staff Hiring for Fiscal Year 2026

USDA pauses funding to University of Maine System

Mar. 12, 2025 - The funding freeze follows a spat between President Donald Trump and Gov. Janet Mills over his order restricting transgender students from women’s sports.

USDA pauses funding to University of Maine System

With Federal Funds Stalled, Two Harvard School of Public Health Graduate Programs Reduce Admissions

Mar. 12, 2025 - The reductions to Biostatistics Ph.D. admissions are the first reported cuts to a graduate program at Harvard amid President Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on federal funding.

With Federal Funds Stalled, Two Harvard School of Public Health Graduate Programs Reduce Admissions

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Will Deny All Waitlisted Candidates Amid Financial Uncertainty

Mar. 12, 2025 -The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will reject all waitlisted candidates for its Ph.D. programs — the University’s latest response to federal funding cuts threatened by the Trump administration.

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Will Deny All Waitlisted Candidates Amid Financial Uncertainty

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.

UMass medical school implements hiring and spending freeze, considers layoffs

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.

As Universities Eliminate DEI Programming, Harvard Stays Its Course

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.

NYU appoints Title VI coordinator as Trump cracks down on Columbia

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.

Pregnant and parenting students fall victim to lawsuit targeting LGBTQ rights

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.

Update: Federal judge imposes preliminary injunction on NIH spending cuts - The Tufts Daily

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.

NIH cancels $250 million in grants to Columbia as part of $400 million Trump administration cut

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.

Education Department announces massive layoffs, slashing nearly half its workforce

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.

NASA begins mass firings of scientists ahead of Trump team’s deadline

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.

Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant 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.

Faculty Searches in Limbo As Freeze Interrupts Hiring Processes Across Harvard

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.”

Olinto mandates in-person classes and exams amid ICE presence around campus

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

Lamont cuts spending at CT public colleges, other agencies

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

Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research

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.

Pitt institutes hiring freeze at least through June in response to funding uncertainties

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.

DOGE-mandated cuts targeted staff at a Native American college. A lawsuit fights back

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.

How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts

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.

Education Department warns 60 colleges it could take action over antisemitism concerns

‘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.

‘America can’t be great without great science. That is where the Academies can help.’

Harvard Announces Hiring Freeze

Mar. 10, 2025 - Amid funding uncertainties, the University prepares for austerity.

Harvard Announces Hiring Freeze

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.

UWashington | Working together to address the financial risks facing our University

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.

Universities are facing big cuts to research funding. At Duke, it's a time for 'damage control'

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.

Scott Delaney: Google Sheet to track NIH grant cancellations

NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders

Mar. 7, 2025 - Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.

NSF Implementation of Recent 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.

Notre Dame announces hiring freeze ‘effective immediately’

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.

Trump administration cuts $400 million in federal funding to Columbia

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.

Duke Arts & Sciences Council addresses federal funding cuts, details implementation of new Constellations, Century Courses