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Budget Freezes Are Coming for Higher Education

Robert Kelchen

During the last three weeks, I have thought a lot about the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. Im now a veteran department head at a much better resourced university, but higher education is facing more uncertainty now than since March 2020 due to the bulldozer of the Trump administrations attempted and proposed changes.

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McMahon: Funding is safe but mass layoffs are “first step” to full closure

University Business

(LATEST UPDATE: March 12) Student loans and Pell Grants are safe, but this week’s mass firings at the Department of Education represent the “first step” of President Donald Trump’s plan to shut down the agency, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says. ” (LAST UPDATE: Feb.