UMass Chan freezes hiring, rescinds PhD program admissions amid funding uncertainty
Mar. 13, 2025 - UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester became the latest higher education institution to announce a hiring freeze.
2025 Policy and Budget Announcements
Pitt's hiring freeze is only step one, other cost-cutting measures to follow
Mar. 13, 2025 - Pitt’s Chief Financial Officer Dwayne Pinkney said enrollment trends, inflation and flat state funding were also behind the decision.
Duke to implement staff hiring freeze, series of cost-cutting measures amid federal funding threats
Mar. 13, 2025 - Upcoming spending adjustments include suspending capital spending, freezing staff hiring and salary mid-year adjustments, reviewing all faculty hiring practices and slowing all non-compensation spending.
As US slashes at research, French university opens arms to scientists seeking refuge
Mar. 12, 2025 - Aix-Marseille University has a long tradition of bringing artists and researchers in precarious situations — people struggling to conduct their work in war zones or while facing security threats — onto its campus.
Senator Collins Announces University of Maine’s USDA Funding Restored
Mar. 12, 2025 - After consulting with the Administration, Senator Collins today announced USDA funding to the University of Maine has been restored.
UW implements hiring freeze, other budget-cutting measures amid federal, state uncertainty
Mar. 12, 2025 - UW has a "good financial position," but unprecedented federal policy changes have increased the university's risk of funding cuts.
Tufts administrators, alumni navigate DEI work amid political challenges - The Tufts Daily
Mar. 13, 2025 - Tufts boasts 97 master’s programs, one of which is the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Leadership program.
Brown University institutes staff-wide hiring freeze in response to ‘federal government actions’
Mar. 13, 2025 - The freeze will remain in effect through the end of the 2025 fiscal year.
UMD international students prepare for uncertainty after Trump’s executive orders
Mar. 12, 2025 - Multiple international students who spoke to The Diamondback under anonymity due to fear of retaliation expressed concerns about their freedom of speech and ability to critique the U.S. government under Trump’s new administration.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.