Heat from Trump administration puts higher education leaders in ‘terrible position’ with so much at stake

America's Colleges Hoard Billions, but Keep Crying 'Poor'

Matt Taibbi, New York Post Twenty years ago, maybe even ten, I'd have found stories about the administration cutting grants to universities and detonating thousands of campus-related jobs...

NYU Freezes Hiring Ahead of Potential Trump Funding Cuts

New York University, one of 45 schools under investigation over its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, implemented a hiring freeze among several moves to prepare for possible federal funding cuts by the Trump administration.

Heat from Trump administration puts higher education leaders in ‘terrible position’ with so much at stake

The dangerous assault against the country’s leading universities, higher education leaders warn, has unfolded rapidly on multiple fronts – threatening not only America’s economic and technological strength but also its vaunted democratic system and traditions of academic freedom and free speech.

University of California freezes hiring as it braces for funding cuts

The system cited uncertainty at both the federal and state level, including heavy potential cuts from the National Institutes of Health.

Princeton University to pause hiring, save money, amid federal funding uncertainty

In a memo sent to the university community Wednesday, university officials said they were taking a number of steps to cut costs and restrain spending in the coming months.

University of California President Michael V. Drake announced on March 19 that the University of California (UC) has ordered a system-wide hiring freeze and cuts in spending to mitigate the impact of federal and state funding cuts. Drake wrote in a statement on the school's website: "Over the past few months, the new administration in Washington, D.C. has issued a series of executive orders and proposed policy changes, some of which threaten the…