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‘Potentially Existential’: Higher Ed Denounces Proposed Federal Funding Strings
Major groups representing universities, faculty and others oppose draft General Services Administration rules targeting DEI and more. Trump’s recent executive order doubles down.
Kentucky Lawmakers Want to Make It Easier to Lay Off Faculty
The legislation would explicitly permit terminations for low enrollment or “misalignment of revenue and costs.” The GOP supermajority can override any veto from the Democratic governor.
GOP Decries Chinese ‘Espionage’; Dems Focus on Loan Debt, ED Layoffs
The House Ed and Workforce Committee chair referred to Democrats’ questions as an “alternate hearing” from the one he called on foreign threats.
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.
