It’s Nonstop Disaster Planning on College Campuses
The pandemic closed campuses and pushed enrollment off a cliff, yet two months of Trump is already causing more disruption—especially in research.
Jeffrey Gold spends a lot of time these days game-planning for worst-case scenarios. The president of the University of Nebraska—a network of schools that serves roughly 50,000 students and is the largest employer in a deep-red state—is trying to figure out how his university system will get by if any of the $752 million it gets in federal funding were to disappear.
His administration has been meeting with Nebraska’s congressional delegation and partnering with industry leaders to highlight the importance of that money, which makes up about a quarter of total funding, and convey the magnitude of what’s at stake: support for an institution that contributes $6.4 billion annually to the state’s economy.