From the Washington Post: The Education Department has cut off funding for campus-based child care at over a dozen colleges, accusing the schools of conflicting with the Trump administration’s polices by teaching young children about gender and race or prioritizing diversity in hiring. Grants from the Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program are a critical source of money for public colleges that educate large populations of students with limited financial means. The $80 million federal program provides four-year grants to more than 200 colleges and universities that support child care on campus or in the surrounding community. Now, some of those schools will likely be scrambling to cover child care costs as the school year begins.
...The fate of CCAMPIS has been in question for months. Student advocates and congressional Democrats grew concerned when the department failed to issue an application for this year’s grant, which would normally be released in May and close in July. Because Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 calls for eliminating the program. ...Education Department spokesperson Ellen Keast said... that some of the rejected recipients would have taught children between the ages 2 and 5 about gender identity and racial justice. Other colleges, she said, prioritized the hiring of child care staff based on “immutable characteristics, not merit.” ...
Full story at https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/29/education-department-child-care-college/.
From Inside Higher Ed: Brown University will give money to some of its graduate students whose federal research grants were cut by the Trump administration, The Brown Daily Herald reported. “We want to make sure that we’re able to give each of you all of the attention and support that you need to get through comfortably [and] well supported,” Janet Blume, interim dean of the graduate school, said at a Graduate Student Council meeting... She said the university will honor the financial commitments of M.F.A. and Ph.D. students who lost their grants.
The National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies have terminated thousands of academic researchers’ grants—including many at Brown—that don’t align with the Trump administration’s ideological agenda. Blume said Brown is also reducing its graduate student admissions target this year to allow “time to work out issues of the federal financial landscape and also shifts in the job market.” ...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/09/05/brown-fund-grad-students-who-lost-grants.
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