From Tuscon.com: The provost’s office at the University of Arizona will invest $200,000 in a new, one-time bridge funding program to support students working on grant projects whose federal funding has been paused or stopped. The program will be in addition to the $1 million bridge funding program started earlier this year by the UA Office of Research and Partnerships for faculty, staff and students facing grant funding cuts by the Trump administration. The provost’s one-time initiative for spring 2026 will provide bridge funds to university grants that “directly support student success, including academic support, advising, mentoring, experiential learning, assessment and related activities,” said UA spokesperson Mitch Zak...
The aim of launching the bridge program, in addition to the fund previously created by the office of Senior Vice President of Research and Partnerships Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, is to cater to student grants that may fall outside the original program’s eligibility criteria, said Zak...
The Trump administration has targeted federal research funding this year for universities, pausing or stopping some ongoing projects and reducing the percentage of overhead costs covered by grants. As of May, federal agencies had eliminated 73 research awards and grants at the UA, totaling nearly $61 million in unspent funds; more recent tallies haven’t been provided...
The White House offered a higher education compact, initially to nine universities, including the UA, which would give them preferential access to federal funds if they agreed to a list of financial, ideological and political demands. The UA declined to sign the compact, saying academic freedom, merit-based research funding and institutional independence must be preserved.
Full story at https://tucson.com/news/local/education/college/article_976c1d6e-44fd-48bc-94b2-2f8fcd87b8ab.html.
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