2025 Policy and Budget Announcements

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UCLA Professors express concern over research, programs following federal funding cuts

Jun 8, 2025 - The Trump administration has revoked federal grants and contracts from six American universities due to their alleged failure to resolve antisemitism on campus.

#Trump #UCLA

UCLA Professors express concern over research, programs following federal funding cuts

Visa to Harvard Postdoc Was Denied Under Trump’s Proclamation in Breach of Judge’s Temporary Halt

Jun 8, 2025 - President Donald Trump’s proclamation barred international students from entering the country to attend Harvard — even though a federal judge had temporarily blocked it.

#Harvard #Trump

Visa to Harvard Postdoc Was Denied Under Trump’s Proclamation in Breach of Judge’s Temporary Halt

Brown University seeks to back Harvard’s lawsuit against Trump administration's federal funding cuts

Jun 8, 2025 - Brown, along with 17 other colleges and universities, submitted a request to file a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Harvard’s suit against the Trump administration’s cuts to the university’s research funding.

#Brown #Trump #Harvard

Brown University seeks to back Harvard’s lawsuit against Trump administration's federal funding cuts

Columbia, Cornell only Ivies to not join amicus brief backing Harvard lawsuit against Trump administration

Jun 8, 2025 - Columbia and Cornell University are the only Ivy League institutions that have not joined an amicus brief in support of Harvard’s lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration over canceled federal funding.

#Columbia University #Cornell #Trump #Harvard

Columbia, Cornell only Ivies to not join amicus brief backing Harvard lawsuit against Trump administration

Harvard Research Cuts Halt More Than 570 Subawards to Other Institutions, Including MGB Hospitals

Jun 7, 2025 - Harvard will cease funding more than 570 subawards for research at affiliated institutions across 32 states after cuts to federal support.

#Harvard #funding #budget #Trump

Harvard Research Cuts Halt More Than 570 Subawards to Other Institutions, Including MGB Hospitals

Texas Republicans pioneered in-state tuition for undocumented students. Now they're celebrating its end

Jun 6, 2025 - Now, some GOP lawmakers feel only U.S. citizens should be able to access in-state tuition.

#Texas #higher ed #politics

Texas Republicans pioneered in-state tuition for undocumented students. Now they're celebrating its end

Statement for the Record: The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Jun 5, 2025 - Data & Society's statement for the record at a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the federal government in the age of artificial intelligence.

#AI #policy #Data & Society #advocacy

Statement for the Record: The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Trump cut UC Berkeley researchers' funding. Their response is a fierce lawsuit.

Jun 5, 2025 - "I really believe in rule of law," one of the researchers suing the president said.

#Trump #UC Berkeley #UC San Francisco

Trump cut UC Berkeley researchers' funding. Their response is a fierce lawsuit.

University of Illinois braces for visa revocations for Chinese students

Jun 4, 2025 - The school's flagship campus, which has the second largest number of international students of all public universities in the country, could be hit hard by Trump's plan to revoke Chinese student visas.

#University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign #Trump

University of Illinois braces for visa revocations for Chinese students

U.S. Department of Education Notifies Columbia University’s Accreditor of Columbia’s Title VI Violation

June 4, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) notified Middle States Commission on Higher Education that Columbia University is in violation of federal antidiscrimination laws.

#Columbia University #Department of Education #Trump

U.S. Department of Education Notifies Columbia University’s Accreditor of Columbia’s Title VI Violation

Hopkins freezes hiring, pauses pay increases amid federal cuts

Jun 3, 2025 - The Johns Hopkins University will freeze hiring, pause pay increases and slow down capital projects amid ongoing federal cuts and uncertainty, the school’s lead

#JHU #budget #Trump

Hopkins freezes hiring, pauses pay increases amid federal cuts

BU | Teaching AI to Personalize: Aldo Pacchiano Introduces a New Method for Adaptive Large Language Models

Jun 2, 2025 - In a new paper titled “Language Model Personalization via Reward Factorization,” Pacchiano and his co-authors introduce Personalization via Reward Factorization (PReF)

#Boston University #AI #ADSA member #LLM

BU | Teaching AI to Personalize: Aldo Pacchiano Introduces a New Method for Adaptive Large Language Models

FY26 budget plan would slash maximum Pell Grant by nearly a quarter

Jun 2, 2025 - The Education Department's proposal would also radically reduce funding for Federal Work-Study and require a bigger employer contribution.

#higher ed #Trump

FY26 budget plan would slash maximum Pell Grant by nearly a quarter

FY26 Statistical Agency Budget Developments

Jun 1, 2025 - This blog entry will track FY26 appropriations developments for the federal statistical agencies and so will be updated accordingly.

#ASA #data #NSF #NIH #Trump

FY26 Statistical Agency Budget Developments

Ivy Tech to lay off 200 employees across Indiana

May 30, 2025 - Ivy Tech Community College will lay off 202 employees statewide as it responds to significant cuts in state funding and frozen tuition rates.

#Ivy Tech Community College #budget

Ivy Tech to lay off 200 employees across Indiana

AAAS FY 2026 R&D Appropriations Dashboard

May 30, 2025 - A dashboard comparing White House, House, and Senate spending proposals for science and technology programs in FY 2026.

#Trump #budget #research

AAAS FY 2026 R&D Appropriations Dashboard

Eastern Michigan University to cut ties with Chinese colleges amid lawmaker push

May 30, 2025 - The institution is the latest to dissolve its partnerships after Republican legislators raised concerns about national security and research theft.

#University of Eastern Michigan #Trump

Eastern Michigan University to cut ties with Chinese colleges amid lawmaker push

So much for saving the planet. Climate careers, and many others, evaporate for class of 2025

May 29, 2025 - The Trump administration is disrupting career paths for new graduates hoping to work in climate change jobs, sustainability, international aid, public service and the sciences.

#Trump #higher ed

So much for saving the planet. Climate careers, and many others, evaporate for class of 2025

Rubio’s visa crunch has big consequences for public universities

May 29, 2025 - Public institutions in Arizona, California, Illinois, Michigan and Texas rank among the top destinations for international students.

#California #Arizona #Illinois #Michigan #Texas #higher ed #Trump #University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign #Arizona State University #AAUP

Rubio’s visa crunch has big consequences for public universities

Northeastern braces as State Department temporarily halts student, exchange visa interviews

May 29, 2025 - The State Department has temporarily suspended all foreign exchange and student visa interviews as it begins implementing a new system to screen applicants’ social media activity.

#Trump #Northeastern University

Northeastern braces as State Department temporarily halts student, exchange visa interviews

Yale OISS updates guidance for international students as U.S. pauses student visa interviews

May 29, 2025 - The Office of International Students and Scholars advised students to submit visa applications as soon as possible and recommended students evaluate their digital footprints hours before the secretary of state announced plans to revoke visas from Chinese students.

#Yale #Trump

Yale OISS updates guidance for international students as U.S. pauses student visa interviews

RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals

May 28, 2025 - Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said his agency will create “in-house” publications instead.

#Trump

RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals

American Association of University Professors calls on Duke to 'immediately halt' its employee buyout program

May 28, 2025 - The statement alleges that Duke did not consult faculty and staff in decision-making prior to rolling out the VSIP and has not been transparent with its cost-cutting strategy

#Duke University #AAUP #budget

American Association of University Professors calls on Duke to 'immediately halt' its employee buyout program

Corporation approves $1.9 billion budget, statement of Brown's values and voice

May 28, 2025 - The Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, approved a $1.9 billion budget for fiscal year 2026.

#Brown #budget

Corporation approves $1.9 billion budget, statement of Brown's values and voice

Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ has prompted an outcry

May 28, 2025 - Thousands have signed an open letter against the US president’s latest order, anxious about political interference in science and more.

#Trump #science #innovation #research

Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ has prompted an outcry

$700K grant canceled when DOGE misunderstood use of ‘climate’

May 26, 2025 - An Ohio State University researcher is left without funding after DOGE canceled it over what she said is a misinterpreted word

#Ohio State University #Trump #NSF

$700K grant canceled when DOGE misunderstood use of ‘climate’

ASA Response to OPM Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

May 26, 2025 - Improving performance, accountability, and responsiveness in the civil service

#ASA #Trump

ASA Response to OPM Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Hong Kong universities woo Harvard international students targeted by Trump

May 26, 2025 - The offers follow the United States administration’s decision last week to prevent the prestigious university from enrolling foreign students.

#Trump #Harvard #China

Hong Kong universities woo Harvard international students targeted by Trump

Harvard researchers devastated as Trump team cuts nearly 1,000 grants

May 24, 2025 - Nature talks with scientists about an uncertain future as the US government lays siege to their university.

#Harvard #Trump

Harvard researchers devastated as Trump team cuts nearly 1,000 grants

Judge blocks Trump administration’s ban on Harvard accepting international students

May 23, 2025 - Ivy league had filed suit saying the ban was unconstitutional retaliation for defying White House’s demands

#Harvard #Trump #DHS

Judge blocks Trump administration’s ban on Harvard accepting international students