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Halfway Through the Fiscal Year, NIH Has Only Obligated 15% of Research Funding
The science community fears the funding agency’s slow contract and grant making could result in another rush of multiyear obligations at the end of the fiscal year. The NIH director has said, “Don’t pay attention to the hype.”
Faculty, Grad Workers Left Out of Virginia’s Collective Bargaining Expansion
Lawmakers sent the new Democratic governor a bill to end the state’s longtime ban on public workers unionizing. But faculty and grad students are excluded.
ED Transfers Defaulted Student Loan Collection Responsibilities to Treasury
The Education Department says its latest move to distribute its duties to other federal agencies will include Treasury taking on much more student financial aid oversight in the future.
Lawmakers Move to Bail Out Southern Oregon While Portland State Plans to Cut
Oregon’s higher ed coordinating agency has already recommended “integration,” for some state institutions. Portland faculty are calling for more state funding for their own institution.
Federal Grant Makers May Lose Job Protections: 5 Things to Know
Trump has created a new employee category that he previously dubbed Schedule F. It allows for easier firings of those who are “subverting presidential directives.”