UC San Diego... is placing a freeze on the hiring of new faculty to help cope with cuts that could cost it more than $200 million in state and especially federal funding.
The move was confirmed Thursday by Terry Gaasterland, a computational biologist who also chairs the Academic Senate’s Committee on Planning and Budget, which collaborates with UCSD executives on money issues.
She said the campus anticipates losing as much as $55 million in the new state budget. That’s what Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed cutting, part of an effort to slash funding to the entire University of California system by almost $400 million.
UCSD also projects that it could lose at least $150 million in annual funding from the National Institutes of Health, which has been told by the Trump administration to reduce its budget by billions of dollars.* The estimate was confirmed in a statement the school placed on its website Thursday.
The faculty hiring freeze involves the entire university, including the school of medicine...
Full story at https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/20/uc-san-diego-bracing-for-more-than-200m-in-funding-cuts-freezes-faculty-hiring/.
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*Note: This is a larger estimate than we reported earlier. It may involve anticipated loss of grants as well as the cut in overhead costs to 15%.
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