The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in federal funding at Cornell University and $790 million at Northwestern University, the latest university, the latest college to threaten its federal grants and contracts. The New York Times The report said anonymous officials were cited on Tuesday.
The affected funds will include funds from the agriculture, defense, education and health and public services sectors. this era Apart from pointing out why both institutions face civil rights investigations related to so-called campus anti-Semitism, why these universities lost that money. Northwest has tried in recent weeks to highlight its efforts to combat anti-Semitism, which includes policy changes for students, faculty and mandatory anti-Semitism training.
However, the government cannot legally raise funds from universities to violate civil rights until a lengthy process includes notifications to Congress and opportunities for judicial review. Still, the Trump administration has used other avenues (some experts say it is illegal and the subject of legal challenges) to cut funds. This includes the knock-out task force to investigate the university and target its grants and contracts. The task force is currently reviewing Harvard’s federal funding, which totals $9 billion and requires several changes so the college can continue to collect money.
“This was wrong last week, this was wrong, this was wrong, and this will be wrong next week,” said Ted Mitchell, chairman of the U.S. Board of Education.
Northwest spokesman Jon Yates said the university learned through the media that the freeze would affect “a large portion of our federal funding.”
“The university has not received any official notice from the federal government,” Yates wrote in an email. Internal Advanced ED. “The federal funding received by the Northwest region has driven innovative and life-saving research, such as the recent development of Northwest researchers in the world’s smallest pacemakers, and research conducted in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. This type of research is now at risk.
Cornell did not respond Internal Advanced ED Request a comment.
The U.S. Jewish Commission warned the Trump administration on Tuesday against huge cuts to universities, adding that such steps should be a last resort.
