Over 600 leaders of universities and colleges recently signed a statement for “constructive engagement” as the result of conflict between the government and higher education. Particularly concerning are cuts in funding for research, student visa status and DEI. On the next Charlotte Talks, we hear from Davidson College President Doug Hicks about the pressures facing educational institutions.
The administration invoked rules that allow the government to shut off the federal student-loan spigot for specific schools if too many of their former students have lapsed on payments, according to a notice the Education Department is expected to send out Monday, which was seen by The Wall Street Journal.
Harvard University will receive no new federal grants until it meets a series of demands from President Donald Trump’s administration, the Education Department announced Monday.
The Trump administration has canceled close to $3 billion in NIH and NSF research grants, often without much explanation. Now researchers are crowdsourcing databases of suspended grants to shed light on what’s being lost. The federal government has terminated thousands of grants it deemed unworthy of scientific study in the months since President Donald Trump started his second term. But scholars still aren’t clear why or how the government made those determinations.