The University of Stanford recently announced the release of more than 360 employees due to financing problems. The university quoted budget limitation and said that the federal policy of US President Donald Trump financing triggered the main decision, Reuters reported.
“Stanford makes a budget”
On Tuesday, the University of Luis Rapport spokesman replied to media reports and said, “Stanford is in the budget reducing process.”
The statement added: “Last week many schools and units have made a reduction in the workforce of employees. A total of 363 layoffs.”
This comes after Trump’s administration threatened to reduce federal resources to universities above the pro-Palestinian protests against the American ally of Israel.
Regarding the recent budget decisions, President Stanford Jonathan Levin and Jenny Martinez’s provision issued a statement last week that the Silicon Valley school was facing a “demanding fiscal environment formed by largely federal changes to politics affecting higher education”.
Among a number of elite institutions, Silicon Valley School has received an administration under Radar Trump in a number of questions, including whether his policies in accordance with the Supreme Court’s decision in 2023 forbid affirmative measures in the admission of universities.
Intervention about other elite institutions
In June, the University of California claimed that in the face of a “demanding fiscal environment, which was largely formed by federal changes in politics affecting university education”, it was forced to reduce the budget of general funds to the upcoming academic year by $ 140 million.
These measures to reduce budgets come as a result of significant financing freeze for the University of California in Los Angeles. The federal government has stiffened more than $ 330 million and claimed that the university authorities were unsuccessful in the care of a friendly environment for Jewish and Israeli students. The situation in the area pointed to hostility towards the American Ally Israel, because after the beginning of the Gaza war protests and agitation broke out.
Columbia and Brown University administration agreed an agreement with Trump administration and made changes in university politicians in exchange for which the financing was restored but with financial punishment.
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