2025 Policy and Budget Announcements

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Compromising or Capitulating? Faculty Debate Whether Harvard Should Take a Trump Deal

Jun 25, 2025 - Harvard had restarted negotiations with the Trump administration. Several faculty members said they were alarmed by the prospect of striking a deal with the White House.

#Harvard #Trump

Compromising or Capitulating? Faculty Debate Whether Harvard Should Take a Trump Deal

The US Department of Education is far behind on producing key statistics

Jun 25, 2025 - Federal education data releases have slowed dramatically, with major gaps in the 2024 Digest and Condition of Education report.

#Department of Education #data #Trump

The US Department of Education is far behind on producing key statistics

Prestigious NSF graduate fellowship tilts toward AI and quantum

Jun 25, 2025 - Students in the life sciences are shut out of latest cohort of 500 fellows

#NSF #life science #AI #quantum computing

Prestigious NSF graduate fellowship tilts toward AI and quantum

HUD plans move to Alexandria, booting National Science Foundation from headquarters

Jun 25, 2025 - The Department of Housing and Urban Development will move its employees out of D.C. to Alexandria, Virginia, booting the National Science Foundation from its headquarters.

#NSF #Trump

HUD plans move to Alexandria, booting National Science Foundation from headquarters

Parking wars: Education Department cites logistics for delay of laid-off workers’ return

Jun 25, 2025 - The Trump administration laid off about 1,300 Education Department workers. A federal judge ordered the department to bring them back. The Supreme Court could have the final say.

#Department of Education #Trump

Parking wars: Education Department cites logistics for delay of laid-off workers’ return

Following court order, NIH ceases new terminations of politically sensitive grants

Jun 25, 2025 - After a judge told agency to restore hundreds of killed grants, NIH backs off plans to cancel more existing projects

#NIH #Trump

Following court order, NIH ceases new terminations of politically sensitive grants

Trump admin cuts contracts with scientific publishing giant

Jun 25, 2025 - The administration has questioned editorial practices and whether journals are partisans in scientific debates

#Trump #NIH #DEI #DOJ

Trump admin cuts contracts with scientific publishing giant

Hundreds of IU degree programs at risk of disappearing

Jun 24, 2025 - The cutoff is 15 graduates/year for undergrad majors, 7 for Masters programs, and 3 for PhD programs, averaged over 3 years.

#University of Indiana Bloomington #policy #budget

Hundreds of IU degree programs at risk of disappearing

Judge strikes down National Science Foundation’s 15% funding cap for research overhead

Jun 24, 2025 - With the new ruling, efforts to cap research overhead reimbursement have now been blocked at four federal agencies.

#Trump #NSF

Judge strikes down National Science Foundation’s 15% funding cap for research overhead

Maine community colleges forced to close chapter on free tuition

Jun 24, 2025 - This year's graduates will be the last to benefit from a free tuition program.

#Maine #community college #policy

Maine community colleges forced to close chapter on free tuition

Sluggishness and defensiveness helped enable an executive order on research integrity

Jun 24, 2025 - The scientific community has largely reacted negatively to the directive, fearing that the way oversight by political appointees is specified in the order will lead to interference in the curiosity-driven process of science.

#Trump #science #innovation #policy

Sluggishness and defensiveness helped enable an executive order on research integrity

NIH grantees may face long wait for restored money

Jun 24, 2025 - Researchers who saw their NIH grants restored could face long waits accessing the money.

#NIH #research #Trump

NIH grantees may face long wait for restored money

Will Gates and other funders save massive public health database at risk from Trump cuts?

Jun 23, 2025 - UN in talks with governments and funding bodies to save highly cited, 40-year health data set used by researchers in more than 90 countries.

#data #USAID #Trump

Will Gates and other funders save massive public health database at risk from Trump cuts?

UW-Madison announces budget cuts for all departments up to 7 percent

Jun 23, 2025 - Facing funding cuts from the Trump administration and uncertainty from the Wisconsin Legislature, the flagship university directed all departments to cut their budgets between 5 percent and 7 percent next year

#University of Wisconsin-Madison #budget #Trump

UW-Madison announces budget cuts for all departments up to 7 percent

Texas directs public universities to identify undocumented students

Jun 23, 2025 - It’s unclear what information schools might ask from students and how their immigration data will be protected.

#Texas #higher ed #DHS

Texas directs public universities to identify undocumented students

Potential Impact of the NIH's proposed FY26 budget

Jun 23, 2025 - An $estimated 46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.

#NIH #Trump

Potential Impact of the NIH's proposed FY26 budget

OSTP Memo: Gold Standard Science - NASA Watch

Jun 23, 2025 - Directed by President Trump's Executive Order (EO) 14303, "Restoring Gold Standard Science"

#science #OSTP #Trump

OSTP Memo: Gold Standard Science - NASA Watch

Accidental death data threatened by Trump CDC cuts

Jun 23, 2025 - Key data on fatal car accidents, drug overdose deaths, firearm injuries and even dog bites is at risk.

#CDC #data #Trump

Accidental death data threatened by Trump CDC cuts

Belt-tightening continues at UMass amid federal funding cuts

Jun 22, 2025 - Campus officials have called for various belt-tightening measures, including spending reductions of 3% and 5% in all academic and administrative departments.

#UMass Amherst #UMass Boston #UMass Dartmouth #UMass Chan Medical School #UMass Lowell #budget

Belt-tightening continues at UMass amid federal funding cuts

Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard

Jun 22, 2025 - More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.

#Harvard #Trump

Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard

Temple University eyes job reductions amid $60M deficit for FY26

Jun 20, 2025 - The public institution’s president said that enrollment is starting to rebound after a steep drop since 2017, but costs have increased much more quickly.

#Temple University #budget

Temple University eyes job reductions amid $60M deficit for FY26

Trump says he's close to 'a Deal' with Harvard, as judge grants injunction

Jun 20, 2025 - Trump's Truth Social comments came as a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction that would continue blocking the president's efforts to bar international students from attending Harvard.

#Trump #Harvard

Trump says he's close to 'a Deal' with Harvard, as judge grants injunction

The Data We Take for Granted

Jun 20, 2025 - Like many things in life, we’ve been taking our data for granted and will miss it terribly when it’s gone.

#policy #data #Trump #Census Bureau #NASA

The Data We Take for Granted

Impact of NIH Grant Terminations on Population Association of America members

Jun 20, 2025 -

#NIH #Trump

Impact of NIH Grant Terminations on Population Association of America members

Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?

Jun 19, 2025 - An immigration crackdown makes the United States less attractive. These locations could steal its crown and make conferences more globally inclusive.

#Trump #events #program management #Canada

Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?

Tracking the Trump administration’s moves to cap indirect research funding

Jun 19, 2025 - The agencies that have tried to limit reimbursement for overhead costs to 15% — and the legal challenges against them.

#Trump #NIH #NSF #DoE #DoD

Tracking the Trump administration’s moves to cap indirect research funding

Judge orders federal government to restore some canceled NIH funds

Jun 18, 2025 - U.S. District Court Judge William Young ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully cancelled NIH funding for research related to topics of DEI

#Trump #NIH #DEI

Judge orders federal government to restore some canceled NIH funds

State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules

Jun 18, 2025 - Foreign nationals who seek visas to study in the United States will have to make social media posts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S.

#Trump #higher ed

State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules

What would the ‘big, beautiful bill’s’ higher endowment tax mean for Duke?

Jun 17, 2025 - The bill might raise the endowment tax for Duke from 1.4% to 7%, and it could raise the tax by nearly 20 percentage points for other institutions.

#Duke University #Trump #budget

What would the ‘big, beautiful bill’s’ higher endowment tax mean for Duke?

How States Are Responding to the Rise of AI in Education

Jun 17, 2025 - When ChatGPT debuted in 2022, no states had policies related to generative artificial intelligence (genAI). Fast forward to April 2025, and at least 28.

#policy #GAI #education #California #Connecticut #Texas #Arkansas #Georgia #Illinois #Maine #K12 #higher ed #AI literacy #Tennessee #Alabama #Mississippi #Maryland #Hawaii

How States Are Responding to the Rise of AI in Education