FEDERAL FUNDING

Columbia trustee demands Title VI compliance in anti-Semitism rebuke

A trustee at Columbia University recently criticized the school administration for its anti-Semitism response, sayi…

By Patrick McDonald '26
Jul 20, 2025

Office for Civil Rights finds California violated Title IX by allowing men to compete in women’s sports

The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights announced on Wednesday that two California institutions vio…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Jun 25, 2025

16 states join Trump admin in legal push to strip Harvard’s federal funding

16 Republican-led states have filed an amicus brief backing the Trump administration’s legal efforts to withhold fe…

By Simon Olech '28
Jun 25, 2025

Blue state AGs urge McMahon to keep DEI grant funding

18 Democratic Attorneys General sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education urging continued federal funding …

By Claire Harrington '25
Jun 25, 2025

Ohio State suffers $29 million loss in recent DOGE cuts

Ohio State University has lost over $29 million in grants following the federal government’s decision to defund DEI…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Jun 19, 2025

Energy Department announces plan to save $405M from inefficient university research spending

Grants from the Department of Energy will no longer entirely fund university administrative costs in a move project…

By Brendan McDonald '25
May 29, 2025

Florida Institute of Technology scrubs DEI to avoid federal funding cuts

The president of Florida Tech was captured on video discussing how the school is altering certain DEI-related termi…

By Patrick McDonald '26
May 20, 2025

Columbia terminates 180 employees after Trump admin pulls $400M due to anti-Semitism failures

Columbia University has announced that nearly 180 research staff will be laid off due to the termination of several…

By Patrick McDonald '26
May 14, 2025

Harvard president rejects 'partisan' label in letter to Sec. McMahon amid clash with Trump admin

Harvard University President Alan Garber asserted that the Trump administration is sidestepping private institution…

By Will Biagini
May 13, 2025

Harvard University will no longer receive federal grants, Sec. McMahon says

In a letter to Harvard President Alan Garber, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon told the university it will no l…

By Patrick McDonald '26
May 7, 2025

Harvard accepted over $1.4B from foreign sources, Campus Reform audit finds

Campus Reform obtained data from the Dept. of Education and found that Harvard accepted more than $295 million from…

By Emily Sturge
Apr 30, 2025

Trump admin pauses $2.2B in Harvard funding as school resists DEI changes

The Trump administration has frozen $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard University after the school announced that it…

By Patrick McDonald '26
Apr 16, 2025

Trump admin sets terms, orders DEI rollback and protections for Jewish students for Harvard to preserve $9B in federal funding

The Trump administration's Task Force on Anti-Semitism directed Harvard University to implement a mask ban, coopera…

By Emily Sturge
Apr 8, 2025

‘GUN TO THE HEAD’: AFT, AAUP sue Trump admin over $400M Columbia freeze

The American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) are suing the Trum…

By Emily Sturge
Mar 28, 2025

Linda McMahon says Columbia must fully comply with Trump admin's demands to have federal funds restored

Education Secretary Linda McMahon recently stated that, in order to have its federal funding restored, Columbia Uni…

By Patrick McDonald '26
Mar 26, 2025

UPenn implements hiring freeze 'immediately and until further notice'

Another elite institution has implemented limitations to its hiring and spending in response to potential changes t…

By Campus Reform
Mar 11, 2025

Stanford announces hiring freeze due to shifting federal policy

Stanford University has implemented a hiring freeze in response to the Trump administration's potential funding cut…

By Campus Reform
Mar 3, 2025

Gov. DeSantis establishes Florida DOGE, cuts in-state tuition for illegal migrants

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the launch of a state-level Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task for…

By Emily Sturge
Mar 3, 2025

'LGBTQ+ words for elementary students': 10 ways Maine's Department of Education spends its money

Maine receives $358.4 million in federal funding for K-12 education and refuses to comply with Trump's executive or…

By Emily Sturge
Mar 3, 2025

DOGE reveals most savings at Dept. of Education with nearly $1B cut

DOGE claims to have saved the most money at the U.S. Department of Education out of any government agency through c…

By Emily Sturge
Feb 28, 2025

Gen Z is on board with DOGE: WATCH

Campus Reform Correspondent Virginia King interviewed students at the University of Texas at Dallas, getting their …

By Campus Reform
Dec 20, 2024

NEH funds intersectional speaker to discuss 'Latinx' impacts on sports at Manhattanville University

The National Endowment for the Humanities funded a speaker at Manhattanville University to discuss 'Amplifying the …

By Campus Reform
Oct 28, 2024

Two House committees pen letter to ARPA-H to ensure civil rights compliance against anti-Semitism

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce sent the letter t…

By Gabriel Zylstra '28
Oct 16, 2024

Number of higher ed institutions dropped 1.7 percent in the 2023-2024 school year as the cost of college continues to soar

The number of higher education institutions dropped 1.7 percent during the 2023-24 academic school year as economic…

By Michael Duke '26
Aug 26, 2024

NIH prioritizes schools with diversity statements in doling out grants

The National Institutes of Health's 'Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation' initiative f…

By Campus Reform
Mar 22, 2024

NIH funds program matching LGBT teens and adults for ‘mentoring’ without parental consent

The National Institutes of Health approved a grant of nearly half a million dollars to fund an ‘online mentoring’ p…

By Will Biagini
Oct 18, 2023

Boston pays for illegal immigrants' college tuition with federal stimulus money

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced a financial expansion of the Tuition-Free Community College Plan, which will now…

By Georgia Lucas '23
Apr 14, 2023

REPORT: Biden admin. may penalize universities not considered LGBTQ+ inclusive

The Biden Administration's rewrite of Title IX may put federal funding on the line for state-funded schools and uni…

By Alexa Schwerha
Jun 10, 2022

New bill would penalize colleges that lie about foreign funding

The REPORT Fines Act would levy financial penalties on colleges that fail to report their foreign gifts and contrac…

By Angela Morabito
Jul 2, 2021

Student gov slaps down sanctuary campus proposal

Supporters accused President Susan Cole of influencing the representatives, noting that she has rejected the sanctu…

By Amber Athey
Apr 11, 2017