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Colleges and universities taking Trump cuts
It’s been one month of the second Trump administration and the impacts on higher education have been arriving at scale.
Today I want to draw attention to real damage done to academic institutions, both directly caused by the new government as well as by institutions themselves in response to Trump actions.
I’m going to try assembling as much evidence as possible in this post — not speculation, nor possibilities, but cases of adverse effects felt in the academic world. If I missed something, please share in comments or, if you feel uncomfortable doing to in public, by contacting me privately.
It may be useful to follow up by creating an open, crowdsourced spreadsheet like we did for campuses going online because of COVID in 2020. Let me know what you think in comments.
At the federal level
Most of the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) unit, a research team that’s part of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), have been laid off. Nearly $1 billion in IES research contracts has been cut. More than $330 million was cut from the Center’s Regional Educational Laboratories and Equity Assistance Centers.
At least thousands of students have seen internships with the federal government vanish, or at least become unclear if they will happen, due to cuts.
