US universities shorten personnel and expenses: Effects of the Trump guidelines on the education sector
US universities shorten personnel and expenses: Effects of the Trump guidelines on the education sector
The Drastic cutbacks in the USA are forcing universities across the country to be extensive measures. Academic institutions react to the government of the government of US President Donald Trump with hiring stop, travel restrictions and moratoriums to salary increases. At least one US university has terminated employees and other campus is considering layoffs and short-working work regulations.
The number of Schools and programs that have limited the approval of doctoral students continues. The government threatens even more extensive cuts, which arouses the concern for the future of the American university system, which is dependent on federal funds in order to finance everything from scholarships for graduate students to entertainment and operating costs.
"The academic model on which the universities were dependent on the implementation of their research and financing their students is in a crisis, because many of which have been financed in different ways through federal cinema," explains Asseem Prakash, political scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle. "This is a massive shock."
The White House did not respond to an inquiry to comment before publication.
abrupt changes
The government has cut several sources of income for universities. US National Institutes of Health and other federal authorities have terminated research grants and Exposed the examination of new scholarship applications . could also experience drastic cuts in the federal funds for indirect costs that are used to finance research institutions, as well as tax increases on foundations.
dozens of campus faces even stricter restrictions. The US Ministry of Education has announced that 60 US universities are examined for possible anti-Semitic nuisance and discrimination. The Ministry referred to Demonstrations that had started in many campus after the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2023 in response to attacks by Hamas.
The government has already deleted $ 400 million in federal granting and contracts for Columbia University in New York City" because of the continuing non -action of the school to protect Jewish students from discrimination ", as from a official explanation can be seen.
On Wednesday, the government reported that the government put $ 175 million of federal funds for the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on hold for their support for transgender athletes. A spokesman for the university said that the guidelines for participating students in sports teams meet the guidelines of national sports organizations.
"The speed and the extent of the attack by the federal government are completely new," says Daniel Greene, information scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park.
difficult labor market
In the course of the cuts and concerns about the future, institutions such as the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania were announced for all employees and faculties. The interdisciplinary institute for artificial intelligence in Maryland planned to stop 40 faculty members in areas such as chip technology, neuronal networks, political science, history and health. "This will probably be reduced to three or four faculty members," says Greene.
Other schools, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with) in Cambridge and the University of Pennsylvania, have frozen the settings, especially for non-faculty positions.
The money -saving measures by the universities include avoiding salary increases and promotions as well as instructions to avoid non -necessary trips and training. The expenses for conferences, meals and events were frozen - "the types of things that bring people together, which damage morality even more in many ways," explains Jevin West, computer scientist at the University of Washington. Universities pause the expenses for memberships, fees and subscriptions, and some review the expenses for new buildings and renovations.
The University of Washington Limited researchers to spend funds from scholarships until the money is provided. "This is a big problem," says West. "If this falls away, the research process slowed down considerably."
demolition of the pipeline
A significant part of Universities limits the approval of doctoral students . Many departments on MIT have registered fewer degrees this year. The Health Sciences of West Virginia University in Morgantown has revoked admission offers to students who had not yet sent their return confirmations back. And some dozen applicants for the Morningide Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences The Umass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, were announced in early March that their provisional registration offers were withdrawn.