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The University of Michigan has scrapped its multimillion dollar university-wide strategic plan to promote diversity, equity and inclusion amid increasing pressure from the Trump administration on the sector.
Employees in USAID-funded positions at Johns Hopkins have worked to “care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water, and advance countless other critical, life-saving efforts around the world,” a university spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
Ever since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, artificial intelligence has dominated conversations related to higher education and the future of work in the U.S. Now, some colleges are investing significantly in AI-related programs, from specific degrees to integrating AI literacy into other disciplines.
Drexel officials told the Inquirer in a statementthat the reduction in head count is part of the university’s “plan for resolving an approximate 10 [percent] imbalance in its operating budget in order to ensure resilience amid financial headwinds facing the higher-education sector.”
A majority of the three-judge panel supported a lower court’s ruling that the colleges did not have a “significantly protectable interest” and, as parties not participating in the settlement to the long-running Sweet v. Cardona lawsuit, lacked a particular form of legal standing needed to challenge it.