[ad_1] US President Donald Trump (AP) Harvard University scored a major legal victory on Wednesday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s cuts to more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants. US district judge Allison Burroughs ruled that the administration’s actions amounted to illegal retaliation against the Ivy League school for rejecting White […]
[ad_1] Representative image (Picture credit: AP) Weeks before a gunman opened fire at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, killing two children and injuring 18 others, the Trump administration cut funding for a Minnesota program intended to prevent acts of mass violence, according to documents cited by the New York Times.In July, the Department of Homeland […]
[ad_1] Donald Trump (left), Harjinder Singh (Agencies) Trump administration has warned that California, Washington, and New Mexico may face significant cuts in federal safety funding unless they enforce English language requirements for commercial truck drivers – a move spurred by a recent fatal crash in Florida involving an Indian-origin driver, reported Fox news.Transportation secretary Sean […]
[ad_1] A wave of austerity is crashing down on American universities, and even the most prestigious ones aren’t being spared. From Harvard and Columbia to Princeton and Michigan State, campuses are slashing budgets, laying off staff, and eliminating even modest comforts like coffee and desk phones, all in response to sweeping federal funding cuts orchestrated […]
[ad_1] Education secretary Linda McMahon on Harvard president Alan Garber’s pay cut (Picture credit: AP) US education secretary Linda McMahon has questioned the significance of Harvard University president Alan Garber’s decision to take a 25% salary cut, arguing that it does little to address ongoing concerns about antisemitism and ideological imbalance on campus.“I’m not quite […]
