Ted Simpson

Hiring freezes, fewer grad students: Funding uncertainty hits colleges Universities are tightening their belts and reducing graduate student enrollments to steel themselves for potential Trump administration funding cuts.

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I’m pretty sure this is what voters want from their elected officials

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The real president always keeps watch over his puppet

Schools, colleges have 2 weeks to ban DEI. An education expert warns it won't be easy The Department of Education told schools to stop DEI efforts or risk losing federal dollars. The president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation warns it won't be quick and easy.

The Department of Education told schools to stop DEI efforts or risk losing federal dollars. The president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation warns it won't be quick and easy.

When they figure it out, who here will they tell?

🚨UPDATE: A federal judge has temporarily blocked this order from going into effect in 22 states, including Maryland.

We will continue to fight this outrageous and illegal move to cut critical funds for cancer research and so much more. This cannot and will not stand.

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

People who don’t know how research works should not interrupt those who do.

Musk doesn’t even go here.

If I start worrying about the future of humanity again, I won’t tell anyone; but there will be signs.

Thank you to my representatives in the House @repsarahelfrethh.bsky.social and Senate @vanhollen.senate.gov for getting out there and fighting the good fight!

Trump preps order to dismantle Education Dept. as DOGE probes data Closing the agency would require congressional approval, so the new administration hopes to diminish it in the meantime.

President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at eventually closing the Education Department and, in the short term, dismantling it from within, according to three people briefed on its contents.