
At 11th hour, judge blocks Trump’s pause on federal funding
The White House's budget director recently told agencies to pause federal grants, loans and other aid so they can review their adherence to Trump's slew of orders since coming to office.
The White House's budget director recently told agencies to pause federal grants, loans and other aid so they can review their adherence to Trump's slew of orders since coming to office.
The new executive order, signed Monday, directs newly sworn-in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to review the Pentagon’s “actions taken in pursuit of DEI initiatives, including all instances of race and sex discrimination and activities designed to promote a race- or sex-based preferences system.”
In that period, “faculty and staff at institutions of higher learning across the country experienced increased scrutiny from college administrators and trustees, as well as Congress and the FBI, for their speech, their academic work, and their political activities.”
Higher ed officials and student advocacy groups warned throughout the day that the pause, in addition to a recent flurry of executive orders, would cause unnecessary disruption to the primary goals and functions of American colleges and universities and could jeopardize crucial scientific research.
Shapiro addressed the research center’s methodological error during a call Wednesday with reporters.The erroneous preliminary report found that first-year enrollment had declined by 5% — over 10 percentage points lower than what the final data showed.
In response, Texas A&M plans to add eight to 12 new buses and separate lanes for bicycles and electric mobility devices, Welsh said.It will also potentially switch to later class times on its fast-growing West campus.
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“The impact of these executive actions will be devastating — stripping away health care access, weakening workplace protections from abuse, inviting exclusion and harassment of vulnerable school children, and giving a green light to discrimination throughout public life,” Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings said in a Monday statement.
Harry Williams, president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, noted another reason for optimism heading into the new Trump term: Most HBCUs are located in red states, so they’ve always developed and relied on positive relationships with Republican lawmakers.
Additionally, the department officials said third-party servicers aren’t allowed to describe an OPM-run program as equivalent to the campus-run version unless there’s “specific evidence of actual parity with respect to each advertised aspect.”
The report also found that students who worked with Navigate Reconnect coaches, called Reconnect Navigators, stayed enrolled or earned technical certificates and degrees at a rate 11 percentage points higher than students who didn’t work with coaches.
Everyone is looking at every aspect of energy efficiency, and every watt counts, so evaluating this benchmark for devices will put money back in the institution’s pocket.