Harvard freezes hiring as Trump threatens to pull funding

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell have already announced hiring freezes, citing similar uncertainty about government funding.
55% : Cash gifts fell 15 per cent to less than US$1.2 billion during the most recent fiscal year amid a surge in alumni anger over the school's handling of anti-Israel demonstrations.
47% : " Harvard said the faculty and staff hiring pause is meant to preserve financial flexibility until leaders "better understand how changes in federal policy will take shape and can assess the scale of their impact.
47% : Harvard is among 60 schools under federal investigation for "antisemitic harassment and discrimination" that received warning letters on March 5 from the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
44% : " The move is the latest fallout for universities confronting an increasingly skeptical Republican Party as well as threats to the billions in federal dollars that flow annually to higher education through programs like the National Institutes of Health.

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