Colleges Must Stand Together to Resist Trump
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After only 11 weeks in power, the Trump administration has done enormous harm to American higher education. It has radically cut the federal work force that supports scientific and scholarly research, museums, and libraries. Its cap on the indirect-cost rate for National Institutes of Health grants has shut down lifesaving programs and abruptly ripped funding away from some of the world’s best faculty and graduate students. Its threats to reduce federal funding to some of the nation’s leading research universities are chilling the study of issues and areas key to national security and social and environmental well-being.
Originally published: April 4, 2025
Author: Joy Connolly
Position: President
Institution: American Council of Learned Societies
Published by: The Chronicle of Higher Ed