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“I want to know what the university is going to do if the grants that I have that pay my students get canceled? How are those salaries going to be paid?”
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More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern University have been frozen while the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at...
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Northwestern University now joins a growing list of colleges across the country to have its federal funding cut by the Trump administration.
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The Trump administration has paused over $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and $790 million for Northwestern University due to
At her first ever news conference on January 28, White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt defended the freezing of federal grants. "I think this is a very reasonable measure," she said, adding that it would help the Trump administration become "good stewards for tax dollars."
The Trump administration plans to halt $510 million of federal funding to Brown over alleged antisemitism on campus and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, a White House official told The Herald. This would make Brown the fifth Ivy League university to face federal funding freezes or cuts.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration's request to halt a lower court's temporary restraining order requiring the federal government to continue $600 million in education grant funding.
"This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in a social media post. The freeze had been stayed by a federal judge until at least ...
Follow The Herald’s latest updates about the planned $510 million federal funding freeze here.