2025 Policy and Budget Announcements

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Education secretary says Columbia University's changes put it on track to recover funding

Mar. 23, 2025 - U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon says Columbia University is “on the right track” to recover federal funding frozen by the Trump administration.

#Columbia University #Department of Education #Trump

Education secretary says Columbia University's changes put it on track to recover funding

Trump revoking protections for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians and other migrants

Mar. 22, 2025 - Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who entered the US under a Biden-era program face deportation.

#Trump

Trump revoking protections for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians and other migrants

CU Anshutz | An Update on Salary Setting, Hiring & University Travel

Mar. 21, 2025 - Hiring is not halted entirely at this time, but the university is postponing non-clinical hires and roles not approved as critical for ongoing operations.

#Trump #CU Anschutz

CU Anshutz | An Update on Salary Setting, Hiring & University Travel

Dismissal of economic advisory boards raises alarms over data quality

Mar. 21, 2025 - The removal of advisers supporting closely watched monthly releases may mean trouble for agencies that provide vital information on jobs and inflation.

#Department of Labor #data #Trump

Dismissal of economic advisory boards raises alarms over data quality

University of Maryland begins partial hiring freeze

Mar. 21, 2025 - Hiring efforts to fill existing, funded positions will now require additional reviews by senior staff, including the university’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer.

#University of Maryland #UMBC #ADSA member #Trump

University of Maryland begins partial hiring freeze

Pitt Talent Center website closed for now; hiring freeze exceptions being developed

Mar. 21, 2025 - The Pitt Talent Center job site is currently offline as the Office of Human Resources and the Office of the Provost work to finalize the exceptions process to the hiring freeze announced on March 10 for staff and faculty.

#University of Pittsburgh #Trump

Pitt Talent Center website closed for now; hiring freeze exceptions being developed

Pitt Professors, students warn vague conduct hearing rules could open door for abuses of power

Mar. 21, 2025 - Professors and student organization leaders have raised concerns about the Student Code of Conduct, saying it gives the University outsized power to silence political speech and punish campus dissent.

#University of Pittsburgh #policy #politics

Pitt Professors, students warn vague conduct hearing rules could open door for abuses of power

Penn | Annenberg School will not renew part-time lecturers’ contracts, citing financial uncertainty

Mar. 21, 2025 - Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication Sarah Banet-Weiser notified the lecturers of the decision in an email sent on March 19.

#UPenn #Trump

Penn | Annenberg School will not renew part-time lecturers’ contracts, citing financial uncertainty

Trump DEI rollbacks push NYU Langone to ditch terms like ‘marginalized’ or ‘diverse’

Mar. 21, 2025 - NYU Langone Health is facing pressure from in-house lawyers to omit phrases like “diverse students” and “systemic racism” from its website.

#NYU #DEI #Trump

Trump DEI rollbacks push NYU Langone to ditch terms like ‘marginalized’ or ‘diverse’

Northwestern | Medill denies tenure, intends to terminate Prof Steven Thrasher next year

Mar. 20, 2025 - Northwestern denied tenure to Medill Prof. Steven Thrasher and plans not to renew his position in August 2026.

#Northwestern #politics #Trump

Northwestern | Medill denies tenure, intends to terminate Prof Steven Thrasher next year

Princeton | Affinity and cultural groups comment on ODUS policy refresher amid Trump’s DEI attacks

Mar. 20, 2025 - Student groups react to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies’s request to update promotional materials to explicitly say that the groups are open to all Princeton students.

#Princeton #DEI

Princeton | Affinity and cultural groups comment on ODUS policy refresher amid Trump’s DEI attacks

Syracuse USen addresses Department of Education funding cuts

Mar. 20, 2025 - Chancellor Syverud assured SU’s Senate of financial stability while addressing federal changes to the DOEd race-based programs.

#Syracuse University #Trump #Department of Education #JHU #Columbia University #budget

Syracuse USen addresses Department of Education funding cuts

US Department of Education investigates Ohio State for alleged racial discrimination due to DEI-related partnership

Mar. 20, 2025 - Ohio State is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights due to alleged racial discrimination in its graduate programs.

#Ohio State University #Department of Education #Trump #DEI

US Department of Education investigates Ohio State for alleged racial discrimination due to DEI-related partnership

Emory announces new Open Expression Policy

Mar. 20, 2025 - In the new policy, Emory pledged to use a content-neutral approach, to address open expression issues and policy violations.

#Emory University #policy #politics

Emory announces new Open Expression Policy

Britain beefs up travel warnings over US border enforcement

Mar. 20, 2025 - Britain has in recent weeks revised its advice for citizens traveling to the US to include a warning that anyone found breaking its entry rules could face arrest or detention.

#United Kingdom (UK)#Trump

Britain beefs up travel warnings over US border enforcement

Trump signs order closing Education Department to ‘maximum extent appropriate’

Mar. 20, 2025 - The directive comes on the heels of U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon's decision to gut half the agency as its "final mission.”

#Department of Education #Trump

Trump signs order closing Education Department to ‘maximum extent appropriate’

Ohio House passes DEI-banning Senate Bill 1; bill returns to Ohio Senate for concurrence

Mar. 20, 2025 - OSB1 aims to ban DEI initiatives and prevent faculty from striking, as well as limit the teaching of controversial subjects within Ohio's public higher education institutions.

#Ohio #higher ed #DEI #politics

Ohio House passes DEI-banning Senate Bill 1; bill returns to Ohio Senate for concurrence

Executive Vice President and Treasurer Glen Shor discusses MIT’s financial strategy for the 2025-2026 academic year

Mar. 20, 2025 - Severe disruptions will affect NIH-funded projects, including the developing improved treatment for Alzheimer's disease in the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory as well as numerous ongoing cancer research projects in the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer research.

#MIT #NIH #biomedical #healthcare #Trump

Executive Vice President and Treasurer Glen Shor discusses MIT’s financial strategy for the 2025-2026 academic year

Students report confusion in co-op hiring processes amid federal funding cuts, hiring freezes

Mar. 19, 2025 - Students report that co-op offers have been rescinded from Harvard and Cornell.

#Northeastern University #Trump

Students report confusion in co-op hiring processes amid federal funding cuts, hiring freezes

ASU Students argue against changes to LGBTQ+ resources

Mar. 19, 2025 - Students are challenging the University's claim that the relocation of pages for LGBTQ+ community resources is solely to "condense and reorganize" ASU websites.

#Arizona State University #DEI #Trump

ASU Students argue against changes to LGBTQ+ resources

UC announces elimination of diversity statements in hiring processes

Mar. 19, 2025 - The University of California system will no longer require diversity statements as part of hiring processes.

#DEI #UCLA #UC Berkeley #UC Davis #UC Irvine #UC Riverside #UC San Diego #UC San Francisco #UC Santa Barbara #UC Santa Cruz #policy

UC announces elimination of diversity statements in hiring processes

MIT | Update to international travel guidance

Mar. 19, 2025 - International students and scholars on temporary visas and U.S. permanent residents (green card holders) are encouraged to postpone or delay international travel, whether personal, academic, or professional, until additional guidance is available.

#MIT #Trump

MIT | Update to international travel guidance

Georgetown | Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says

Mar. 19, 2025 - Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.

#Georgetown University #Trump

Georgetown | Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says

The Continuing Crisis, Part IX: Inside the NIH Now

Mar. 19, 2025 - At the NIH and other agencies, administrators have been told to submit plans for such reductions this week, so that will be thing to look out for.

#NIH #Trump

The Continuing Crisis, Part IX: Inside the NIH Now

Fallout from Trump research cuts expands across academia

Mar. 19, 2025 - Experts predict university research could be forever changed, affecting work on treatments for conditions including cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes.

#Trump #Canada #Baylor University #NIH #France #USAID #Stanford #JHU #UMass Chan Medical School #biomedical #health #Columbia University

Fallout from Trump research cuts expands across academia

NYU freezes hiring amid federal funding uncertainty

Mar. 19, 2025 - NYU placed an immediate hold on hiring and will lower salary increases for faculty and staff.

#NYU #Trump

NYU freezes hiring amid federal funding uncertainty

Prospective UW-Madison grad students lose funding offers amid federal cuts

Mar. 19, 2025 - With current federal funding uncertainties driven by the Trump administration, faculty scientists said they now have limited funds to offer students.

#University of Wisconsin-Madison #Trump #graduate

Prospective UW-Madison grad students lose funding offers amid federal cuts

Princeton freezes most faculty and staff hiring in response to political uncertainty

Mar. 19, 2025 - The University has instituted a hiring freeze for most faculty and staff, according to a memo released to the University community on Wednesday morning.

#Princeton #Trump

Princeton freezes most faculty and staff hiring in response to political uncertainty

University of California announces systemwide hiring freeze as funding cuts loom

Mar. 19, 2025 - The University of California announced that they will implement a hiring freeze and other cost-saving measures throughout the 10-campus system, amid potential cuts to funding.

#UC Berkeley #UC Davis #UC Irvine #UC Riverside #UC San Diego #UC San Francisco #UC Santa Barbara #UC Santa Cruz #California #Trump

University of California announces systemwide hiring freeze as funding cuts loom

Trump administration freezes $175 million in federal funding to Penn

Mar. 19, 2025 - According to a White House tweet, this decision is a result of Penn's "policies forcing women to compete with men in sports."

#DEI #Trump #UPenn

Trump administration freezes $175 million in federal funding to Penn