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School of Humanities and Sciences told to prepare for budget cuts

Apr. 30, 2025 - Stanford’s seven schools had been asked by Provost Jenny Martinez to model budget cuts and submit “high-level plans” for their implementation. H&S’s planning exercise involves modeling a 10% and 15% cut to general funds and a 10% cut to endowment funds.

#Stanford #budget

School of Humanities and Sciences told to prepare for budget cuts

Harvard Sends International Students’ Info to DHS, Does Not Specify What Records Were Shared

Apr. 30, 2025 - Harvard shared data with the Department of Homeland Security in response to its request for information on international students’ disciplinary records and illegal activity.

#Harvard #Trump #DHS

Harvard Sends International Students’ Info to DHS, Does Not Specify What Records Were Shared

Princeton Alumni-led fund aims to replace $210 million in funding cuts

Apr. 29, 2025 - An alumnus-led fund started by Patrick Ho ’08 seeks to replace $210 million in federal research cuts to Princeton.

#Princeton #Trump

Princeton Alumni-led fund aims to replace $210 million in funding cuts

‘The lifeblood of academic researchers’: DEI-related federal funding cuts loom over Northwestern Ph.D. students’ research

May 1, 2025 - Northwestern Ph.D. students have found themselves navigating an increasingly hostile funding environment.

#Northwestern #graduate #Trump #DEI

‘The lifeblood of academic researchers’: DEI-related federal funding cuts loom over Northwestern Ph.D. students’ research

GW seeks reaccreditation as Trump targets accreditors’ DEI standards

May 1, 2025 - The start of this process, required every eight years by the accrediting body, comes amid Trump’s new executive order targeting college accreditation bodies that require institutions to have DEI initiatives.

#DEI #accreditation #George Washington University #Trump

GW seeks reaccreditation as Trump targets accreditors’ DEI standards

Nine MIT international students’ SEVIS statuses are restored without notice

May 1, 2025 - On April 25, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) restored thousands of international students’ visa statuses.

#MIT #Trump #DHS

Nine MIT international students’ SEVIS statuses are restored without notice

Nobel laureate John Jumper returns to UChicago to discuss the AlphaFold protein revolution

May 1, 2025 - Alum John Jumper delivered Bloch Lecture at standing-room-only event.

#UChicago #data science #google #AI

Nobel laureate John Jumper returns to UChicago to discuss the AlphaFold protein revolution

AAU, Associations Send Letter in Opposition to the Student Success and Taxpayer Savings Plan

Apr. 29, 2025 - The overwhelming majority of provisions in the bill would reduce student aid to low-income students and would impose onerous financial penalties on institutions, particularly those least able to meet them.

#higher ed #policy #DEI

AAU, Associations Send Letter in Opposition to the Student Success and Taxpayer Savings Plan

The 100 days that shook U.S. science

Apr. 30, 2025 - Trump’s chaotic push to remake federal research will have lasting consequences.

#Trump #NSF #NIH #research #higher ed

The 100 days that shook U.S. science

A CU professor got a grant to teach kids about artificial intelligence. Then the National Science Foundation abruptly killed it

Apr. 29, 2025 - The grant proposal contained the word “misinformation” -- and the professor thinks that’s why the project was killed.

#AI #Trump #University of Colorado Boulder #NSF

A CU professor got a grant to teach kids about artificial intelligence. Then the National Science Foundation abruptly killed it

Trump administration pulls research funding for 23 CU Boulder projects

Apr. 29, 2025 - The projects were funded through the National Science Foundation.

#NSF #University of Colorado Boulder #Trump

Trump administration pulls research funding for 23 CU Boulder projects

Pitt loses another $1 million research grant: 'These letters are driving fear'

Apr. 28, 2025 - The three-year research project aimed to help 1,500 middle school students become computer literate.

#University of Pittsburgh #NSF #DEI #Trump

Pitt loses another $1 million research grant: 'These letters are driving fear'

If NSF Snoozes, Then TACC’s “Horizon” Supercomputer Loses

Apr. 30, 2025 - It is a tumultuous time for any agency in the US government or any company or organization that depends on the US government for a sizable portion of its.

#UT Austin #Trump #NSF

If NSF Snoozes, Then TACC’s “Horizon” Supercomputer Loses

Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks

Apr. 30, 2025 - Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."

#Columbia University #Trump #DHS

Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks

Will US science survive Trump 2.0?

Apr. 29, 2025 - The White House is expected to propose a budget for 2026 that would slash investments in science across the federal government.

#funding #Trump #NIH #NASA #NSF

Will US science survive Trump 2.0?

University of Pennsylvania violated Title IX, Education Department charges

Apr. 28, 2025 - The agency has been threatening education institutions with the loss of federal funding if they allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.

#UPenn #Department of Education #DEI #Trump

University of Pennsylvania violated Title IX, Education Department charges

Gen Z says AI has made their college degrees irrelevant

Apr. 29, 2025 - New-to-market job seekers are feeling the effects of fervent AI adoption more acutely than any other generation, according to Indeed.

#higher ed #AI #career #training #data #research

Gen Z says AI has made their college degrees irrelevant

MIT Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI

Apr. 28, 2025 - MIT announced a Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI that will advise the Institute on best practices for community members and units using scholarly content to train generative AI (GenAI) models.

#MIT #GAI

MIT Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI

Johns Hopkins announces new research investments to help those affected by federal policy changes

Apr. 28, 2025 - Wide-ranging support targets faculty, staff, and students whose research activities have been affected by unexpected grant terminations, delays, or other interruptions

#JHU #funding #Trump

Johns Hopkins announces new research investments to help those affected by federal policy changes

Immigration status restored for all affected NYU students

Apr. 28, 2025 - The federal government reactivated immigration statuses for all NYU students affected by the Trump administration’s crackdown on noncitizens.

#NYU #Trump #DHS

Immigration status restored for all affected NYU students

Harvard Renames Diversity Office As Trump Demands Dismantling of DEI

Apr. 28, 2025 - Harvard will immediately rename its Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging to “Community and Campus Life."

#Harvard #DEI #Trump

Harvard Renames Diversity Office As Trump Demands Dismantling of DEI

Wisconsin joins lawsuit challenging cuts to federal education funding over DEI

Apr. 28, 2025 - Wisconsin and 18 other states filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the Trump administration’s threats to cut funding for school districts that do not end diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

#DEI #Department of Education #Trump #Wisconsin #higher ed

Wisconsin joins lawsuit challenging cuts to federal education funding over DEI

Immigration status records restored for four Yale students

Apr. 27, 2025 - The federal government reactivated the visitor status records of all four Yale students whose records were previously terminated in a Department of Homeland Security database.

#Yale #Trump #DHS

Immigration status records restored for four Yale students

Immigration records for Brown students, recent grads reinstated

Apr. 28, 2025 - The students impacted by the visa revocations earlier this month had their status reactivated on Saturday.

#Brown #Trump #DHS

Immigration records for Brown students, recent grads reinstated

UWisconsin-Madison Update on SEVIS terminations

Apr. 28, 2025 - UW-Madison can report that as of April 26, all 27 of its international students and alumni affected by SEVIS record terminations have been returned to active status.

#University of Wisconsin-Madison #Trump #DHS

UWisconsin-Madison Update on SEVIS terminations

The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete

Apr. 25, 2025 - The role is basically obsolete thanks to the breakneck speed of AI development and companies’ own maturity in terms of understanding how to use the technology.

#AI #career #training

The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete

Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns

Apr. 25, 2025 - Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly leaves helm of US funding agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE arrives.

#NSF #Trump

Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns

Data Rescue Project | ERICA to the Rescue!

Apr. 28, 2025 - Several volunteers and partners of the Data Rescue Project (DRP) have been working tirelessly for the last few weeks to back up the ERIC catalog and full-text PDFs.

#Trump #data #Department of Education

Data Rescue Project | ERICA to the Rescue!

UPenn engineers first to train AI at lightspeed

Apr. 25, 2025 - Penn engineers have developed the first photonic chip that reshapes how light behaves to carry out the nonlinear mathematics at the heart of modern AI while reducing energy use.

#UPenn #AI #engineering

UPenn engineers first to train AI at lightspeed

Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center

Apr. 23, 2025 - A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk

#Georgetown University #Trump #DHS

Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center