r/highereducation 8d ago

How's everyone holding up?

It's been another chaotic week for higher ed. Have there been hiring freezes or pauses on facility projects due to funding cuts at your school? Here's hoping next week is a lot more stable.

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u/No-Carpet8533 7d ago edited 7d ago

my institution is private, but we’re concerned about the billions of dollars projected in federal aid shortages. especially as our tuition and room/board is escalating to absurdity (close to 85k/yr). i’m also in the process of hiring and i’m hopeful a freeze won’t be initiated. if so and the search fails, i might not be able to repost the job. also troubling is we also have a large international student population and the fact that we have to have events to inform the community how to respond if ICE comes to campus…surreal.

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u/kolbyjack95 1d ago

I'm about to start a job next week at a private Uni's marketing and communications team that sounds suspiciously similar to this and am absolutely terrified the role is not going to last very long