Following the Trump administration’s freeze on federal funding, Northwestern University is cutting back and making other financial moves.
Officials announced cuts to administrative and academic budgets in a letter issued Tuesday, which will most likely result in staff reductions.
The university also implemented a hiring freeze and will not pay out merit bonuses.
Officials are also reviewing budgets for building and system upgrades.
The school cited “potential federal changes — including but not limited to a substantial increase in the endowment tax, constraints on our ability to enroll international students, caps on indirect cost recovery, and a likely reduction in overall federal research funding,” among the reasons it is struggling financially.
In April, the Trump administration froze $790 million in federal funding for Northwestern. The freeze impacted grants from agencies such as defense, agriculture, health, and human services.
Northwestern was one of several universities that experienced what the Department of Education refers to as “explosions of antisemitism” on college campuses following the Israel-Hamas war.
The initial report cited Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits national origin discrimination and applies to federally funded schools and institutions of higher learning.
