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Some universities are freezing hiring and laying off staff as Trump cuts federal funding
The Associated Press ^ | March 13, 2025 | BY CLAIRE RUSH

Posted on 03/14/2025 6:02:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Universities across the U.S. have announced hiring freezes, citing new financial uncertainty as the Trump administration threatens a range of cuts to federal contracts and research grants. Some have announced layoffs.

Johns Hopkins University said Thursday it is eliminating more than 2,200 workers because of a loss of funding from USAID. Some employees are in Baltimore but most work in 44 other countries in support of the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, its medical school and an affiliated nonprofit organization.

Some schools already have shelved projects because of the cuts, which have been delayed temporarily by a court challenge.

Higher education has been a steady job generator since the pandemic, with private colleges and universities adding 35,000 jobs nationwide last year. Hiring freezes and cuts at universities could contribute to slower job growth in the months ahead, advocates for workers say.

Hiring freezes have been announced at schools including Harvard; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Notre Dame; the University of Pennsylvania; the University of Pittsburgh; Emory University; the University of Vermont; North Carolina State University; the University of Washington; and the University of California, San Diego.

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1 posted on 03/14/2025 6:02:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And what about that is a bad thing?


2 posted on 03/14/2025 6:07:42 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Some universities are freezing hiring and laying off staff as Trump cuts federal funding.

Companies that live or die by the profit margin experience this from time to time. Universities... welcome to the real world.
3 posted on 03/14/2025 6:13:11 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is a typical knee jerk reation but it has been years in building. Way too much planning and carrying out of that planning have been decided based upon unrecognized coverge. They would say okay, we have been awarded X number of dollars over time so we can expect it to come again this year. Plan around it.

Preplanning income is foolhardy at best. They buy insurnce to cover their property but that is cash over the counter and pre-estblished. So if a building burns down, they already paid for that. But determining their business operations based upon non-realized funds is putting it in the wind. And that is what happened here.

If these universities determine they should receive free money to not do their job, educating everyone they accept into the college, then I’ve seen con artists do the same thing for a lot less money. And because they haven’t been doing the job, it appears the one thing they didn’t plan upon, is the honesty and integrity of their profession...education. So they get on the government for not giving them gifts for not doing the job? It’s don’t state the obvious for everyone else, I guess.

wy69


4 posted on 03/14/2025 6:15:02 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: Democrat = party of treason

God forbid they use some of their huge endowments to offset costs. Nope. Being a drama queen gets more eyeballs.


5 posted on 03/14/2025 6:19:32 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Johns Hopkins University said Thursday it is eliminating more than 2,200 workers because of a loss of funding from USAID.

That tells you everything you need to know. USAID funding US universities is a scam.

6 posted on 03/14/2025 6:27:11 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

YAY!!!


7 posted on 03/14/2025 6:28:48 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Democrats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You can bet that the liberal pukes will be retained.


8 posted on 03/14/2025 6:30:13 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Time to Play Cowboys and Snowflakes!”)
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To: Democrat = party of treason

The cancer is going into a dormant state until it is revived again with the feeding from the mentally ill bureaucrats and politicians on the left


9 posted on 03/14/2025 6:30:21 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Dan in Wichita

Hate to tell you how this is accomplished at state universities. States always routinely write in unfilled positions into their university budgets. Whenever a crisis involving reducing staff hits state universities they comply by eliminating budgeted positions that were never filled. Of course these unfilled budgeted positions are always reallocated in subsequent budgets when the crisis has subsided.


10 posted on 03/14/2025 6:34:15 AM PDT by hflynn
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The university system is broken. They are indoctrination centers that produce zombie parroting debt slaves to the government.


11 posted on 03/14/2025 6:36:06 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Higher education has been a steady job generator since the pandemic, with private colleges and universities adding 35,000 jobs nationwide last year. Hiring freezes and cuts at universities could contribute to slower job growth in the months ahead, advocates for workers say.”

If the cuts are due to cutting federal money then, no. Those jobs are a net negative on the economy and should be eliminated. Love how they stick ‘private university’ in there as if those jobs are paid by tuition.


12 posted on 03/14/2025 6:40:52 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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bloat = justified

outsourcing = greed

Not exactly a moral equivalency.

...but (anyway) welcome to the party pal.

13 posted on 03/14/2025 6:42:59 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Universities operate on the assumption that there will always be plenty of money, and there’s no such thing as a bad course of study.

They need to be exposed to the realities of market forces.


14 posted on 03/14/2025 7:00:35 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Undergraduate Student Cost of Attendance 2024-25 Academic Year

Total $88,976

https://sfs.jhu.edu/cost-tuition/

So after charging each student almost $90,000 every year they still can’t make ends meet without charity?

By contrast a Mercedes Benz GLS 450 4MATIC SUV (one of their upper end vehicles) is $89,200

https://www.mbusa.com/en/vehicles/class/gls/suv

That’s insane.


15 posted on 03/14/2025 7:03:35 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Democrat = party of treason

More winning!


16 posted on 03/14/2025 7:08:08 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Some employees are in Baltimore but most work in 44 other countries in support of the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health

FWIW, even before covid, in many universities their School of Public Health is home to some of that university's most virulent leftists intent on empowering the political class to control the plebes, for our "good". It's a small cultural step from suggesting public health regulations, to forcing the plebes into adhering the demands of the masters.

17 posted on 03/14/2025 7:11:20 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
No government money to private sectarian colleges, PERIOD!

And in many cases these subsidies are to institutions that have multi-billion dollar endowments.

18 posted on 03/14/2025 7:43:47 AM PDT by Salman (Lasu Eŭropon bruli!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Eliminate all “funding” (aka “vote buying”). Let public education collapse. Let the communities take responsibility. At least their children might be able to read and write.


19 posted on 03/14/2025 8:07:08 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: He that denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and antichrist. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Any private university that relies on government money is not a private university.

Any non government organization that relies on government money is not a non government organization.

EC


20 posted on 03/14/2025 8:20:43 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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