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 forced universities across the country to far -reaching 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 restricted graduate student admissions, continues to increase. The administration is threatening even deeper cuts, raising concerns among some scholars about the future of America's higher education system, which relies on federal money to fund everything from graduate student scholarships to maintenance 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 them have been financed in different ways through federal granting," 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 off several sources of income for universities. The US National Institute of Health and other federal authorities have terminated research grants and Examination of new scholarship applications is suspended. Universities could also have drastic cuts in the federal funds for indirect costs Experience that are used to finance research institutions, as well as tax increases on foundations.

Dozens of campus face even more 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 on many campus after the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2023 began in response to Hamas attacks.

The government already has $ 400 million in federal grants and contracts for Columbia University in New York City "due to the school's continued inaction to protect Jewish students from discrimination," according to one official explanation emerges.

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 scale of the federal attack is completely new,” said Daniel Greene, an information scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park.

Difficult labor market

In the course of the cuts and concerns about the future, hiring stops for all employees and faculties were announced at institutions such as the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. 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," said Greene.

Other schools, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with) in Cambridge and the University of Pennsylvania, have frozen the attitudes, especially for non-faculty positions.

Money-saving measures taken by universities include foregoing raises and promotions, as well as instructions to avoid non-essential travel and training. Spending has been frozen on conferences, meals and events - "the types of things that bring people together, which in many ways hurts morale even more," explains Jevin West, a computer scientist at the University of Washington. Universities are pausing spending on memberships, fees and subscriptions, and some are reviewing spending on new buildings and renovations.

The University of Washington restricts researchers from spending grant money until the money is made available. “This is a big problem,” says West. “If that goes away, the research process will slow down considerably.”

Demolition of the pipeline

A significant part of Universities restrict the admission of doctoral students. Many departments at MIT admitted fewer degrees this year. The Office of Health Sciences at West Virginia University in Morgantown has revoked offers of admission to students who had not yet returned their return receipts. And several dozen applicants to UMass Chan Medical School's Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Worcester, Massachusetts, were told in early March that their provisional offers of admission had been withdrawn.