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Universities survived Trump’s 2025 funding freeze, but the money still isn’t flowing to researchers

  • Written by Brendan Cantwell, Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
Universities survived Trump’s 2025 funding freeze, but the money still isn’t flowing to researchersColumbia University, seen in June 2025, is one of the schools that made a deal with the Trump administration last year in order to avoid losing funding. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Several prominent universities, including Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, made headlines in 2025 in a dizzying back-and-forth with the federal...

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