Over the past few months, a great deal of national news has focused on the federal funding terminations targeting Ivy League institutions and the political retribution against them, especially Harvard. While the Trump administration has claimed to pursue “woke” universities and colleges and taken aim at diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, federal data on grant terminations show that the administration has targeted more than 4,000 grants for termination to over 600 universities and colleges across the country, affecting institutions in every state… Higher education, research and development, and science at large are under attack… Public institutions have had nearly twice the amount of funding targeted, at $2.1 billion in total, compared with private institutions, which have had approximately $1.2 billion targeted in total.

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by Greta Bedekovics and Will Ragland , The Center for American Progress.

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