American university announces layoffs, with federal funding halted in the background
Columbia University said it is firing dozens of scientists whose research was funded largely by U.S. government grants and contracts.
This comes after the federal administration of President Donald Trump canceled some of the funds in March due to university authorities' objections to students' behavior towards Israel and their pro-Palestinian sympathies.
We have had to make difficult choices, and unfortunately 180 individuals who worked in whole or in part on projects that were supported by federal grants will receive termination notices or their contracts will not be renewed, the acting president of Columbia University wrote in an open letter
In March, Donald Trump canceled a $400 million grant to Columbia University and announced that he expected action from the university's authorities to curb the "wave of anti-Semitism."
Harvard University reported that Donald Trump said that until the university addresses problems with anti-Semitic student behavior on campus, it can also expect to see a halt to federal funding .
Journalist, graduate of political science at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. Associated with the media for over 40 years. After graduating in 1982, he worked in the editorial offices of "Gazeta Krakowska" and "Kurier Polski". Member of the editorial team of "Przegląd Techniczny". He published texts in "Student", "Przekrój", "Życie Literackie". Since the economic and political changes, for over 20 years associated with the Reuters agency as a correspondent in Krakow. For the next three years, he conducted practical classes with students at the Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University. Since December 2021, he has joined the PTWP Group and works on the WNP.PL portal. His main professional interests are economics and politics at the global level and the participation of Polish business in this, especially companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Winner of the "Ostrego Pióra" award, granted for "spreading economic education" by the BCC, as well as the Golden Pear - a journalistic award of the Małopolska Branch of the Association of Journalists of the Republic of Poland.
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