Updates: May 8, 2025

Written By CARe Justice .

Federal

  • Despite agreeing to federal demands for reforms and oversight, Columbia University has not had its funding restored and will start larger scale layoffs.

  • The Department of Education has notified Harvard University that it will receive no new federal grants .

  • Congress is holding more hearings with university leaders about campus antisemitism- of note, this round includes Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, signaling their intention to examine beyond the Ivy League and go to public universities.

  • The White House released its proposed budget, signaling its priorities to Congress. Congress authorizes the final budget. Items proposed due to DEI and/or environmental justice concerns, or DEI implications, include:

    • Elimination 

      • Higher Education-Related

        • State Department Educational and Cultural Exchanges to support international students

        • TRIO and GEAR UP programs supporting low income and first generation college students

        • Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (allocated through schools for students with exceptional financial need)

        • Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education programs, which include grants for: campus basic needs programs, research infrastructure for Minority Serving Institutions (UCD has 2 designations), centers for veteran student success, and open textbook programs, among others

        • Child Care Access Means Parents in School: subsidizes childcare for parents in college

      • Health-Related

        • Health Resources and Services Administration: scholarship and loan repayment programs for health workforce students and trainees, maternal and child health grants, Ryan White HIV/AIDS programming,

        • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): funds research on healthcare, criticized for supporting research "pushing radical gender ideology" and "wholly unrelated" climate change impacts on healthcare systems

        • Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS): Office of Women’s Health, Office of Minority Health

        • CMS Program Management: “ending unnecessary DEI and support contracts. It eliminates health equity focused activities and Inflation Reduction Act-related outreach and education activities”

        • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Environmental Justice program

      • Institute for Museum and Library Sciences: includes grants to libraries and library sciences

      • AmeriCorps

      • National Endowment for the Arts

      • National Endowment for the Humanities

      • DHS Shelter and Services Program

    • Major reduction in funds:

      • Higher Education-Related

        • Federal Work Study (81%)

        • Office of Civil Rights (35%), "to refocus away from DEI and Title IX cases"

        • Howard University ($64M)

        • NASA (53%) : Reduction in Space Science, elimination of Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement for "woke STEM programming and research that prioritizes some groups of students over others"

        • National Science Foundation (56%): reduction due to past grants on "woke social, behavioral, and economic sciences," elimination of nearly all Broadening Participation programs

      • Health-Related

        • National Institutes of Health (37%), including elimination of: National Institute on Minority and Health Disparities, Fogarty Center, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institute of Nursing Research

        • EPA: Office of Research and Development (46%)

        • Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (39%): eliminates programs labeled as "DEI" or unnecessary: injury prevention, environmental health, chronic disease, global health, public health preparedness

        • Department of Justice: -$1B in grants on violence prevention, tracking

        • USDA: National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) research grants (30%), Economic Research Service and National Agricultural Statistics Service

        • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (15.7%)

        • Non-Disaster Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Grant Programs (-$646M)

        • Dept of Housing and Urban Development:

          • Housing assistance for low-income, elderly, persons with disabilities: -$26B

          • Elimination: Lead Hazard Reduction and Healthy Homes, Fair Housing Grants Community Development Block Grants, grants for state and local government housing programs, Native American Programs and Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant, Homeless Assistance Program, Self-Sufficiency Programs, Pathways to Removing Obstacles (PRO) Housing,

      • Other cuts cited for DEI/environment

        • Department of Justice: FBI: (-$545M); (-$193M) including Civil Rights Division, Environmental and Natural Resources Division

        • Department of Commerce: (-$624M) Economic Development Administration

          (EDA) and Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)

        • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): 24%, nearly 100% of Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and national climate data initiatives

        • Department of Labor: Education and job training programs

      • Additional health-related cuts, not cited for DEI/environmental justice reasons:

        • Department of Health and Human Services

          • Eliminates Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Hospital Preparedness Program

          • Sexual Risk Avoidance and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs

        • Environmental Protection Agency:

          • Reduces Clean Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Funds by 89%

          • Eliminates Diesel Emissions Reduction Grants, Categorical Grants, Hazardous Substance Superfund, and Atmospheric Protection

      • Additional proposed budget cuts, not cited for DEI reasons:

        • Department of Energy: Office of Research (14%), Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (57%)

        • US Geological Survey Research (33%): grants to universities

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