What Everyone’s Missing About University Funding.

What everyone’s missing about university funding.

By Nick HaydenIntroduction.When politicians and pundits talk about pulling federal funding from universities like Columbia and Harvard, they rarely discuss what that cutting federal funding does, or who it actually affects. As a PhD student working on autoimmune disease research, I can tell you: It doesn’t punish universities. It punishes researchers like me.These pundits also don’t discuss how funding works. Federal research dollars are not han…

CU Boulder officials worry about long-term impact of federal funding cuts

As the federal funding cuts to research by President Donald Trump’s administration continue to climb, University of Colorado Boulder officials are growing increasingly concerned about the broader, long-term implications of such actions. CU Boulder is monitoring the number of research awards and grants that have been terminated or affected by stop-work orders issued by the Trump administration. As of now, 56 awards have been affected, up from 54 …

Universities: what can we learn from the US?

Trump’s executive action-fuelled battles with woke universities fill the headlines. Columbia has capitulated; “heroic” Harvard holds its £53bn-endowment-funded ground. But these are skirmishes – tactical spats in a broader culture war. The real strategic shift is unfolding quietly in Congress, where profound legislative proposals to restructure university finance are advancing. If enacted, they won’t just reshape American higher education – they…