Thomas Brock, director of the center, said in a letter Tuesday that the Center for Community College Research has lost funds for four federal grants. The cut is part of a wider freeze at Columbia University ($400 million in federal funding) for allegations that the agency has underreacted to anti-Semitism.
But Brock argued in the letter: “The termination did not solve Colombia’s perceptual problem and did not challenge “awakening” ideology because our project was non-ideological at the beginning.”
Brock explained that the CCRC Faculty Resident College, a graduate school of education, was linked to nearby Columbia University in 1898 but was independently established in 1887 and was “legally, administratively and financially separated” from the Ivy League institutions.
Nevertheless, the Faculty College and the CCRC were affected when the Federal Anti-Semitism Task Force announced the cuts. All four grants cuts were from the Institute of Educational Sciences. Now supported by a termination grant:
- A study on whether a study could improve retention, degree completion and post-employment.
- Analyzing effective skills in Virginia, finding jobs, and achieving success analysis has been helping low-income students access short-term training programs.
- An apprenticeship program that helps develop the next generation of senior state policy researchers.
- A network of six research groups studied a decline in methods to reverse the big paradigm enrollment rate.
It added the CCRC that the CCRC had already experienced in February, when the Ministry of Education canceled 10 contracts with regional education laboratories, which were also supervised by the IES, calling them examples of “wake up” government spending. REL Northwest has signed a contract with CCRC to pilot a professional development program for community college faculty and staff.
“It is difficult to overestimate the importance of IES grants and contracts to research centers like CCRC,” said Brock, a specialist at the IES National Center for Education Research from 2013 to 2018.
CCRC appeals the decision to terminate the grant.
“We don’t know how long this process will take, but hope that fair thoughts will rule us,” Brock wrote.
