Follow COGR on LinkedIn4/1/26Inside Higher Ed
‘Potentially Existential’: Higher Ed Denounces Proposed Federal Funding Strings
Vague. Undefined. Overbroad. Burdensome. Legally contested. That’s how major higher ed groups are describing the Trump administration’s latest effort to crack down on what it considers diversity, equity and inclusion by requiring colleges and universities to sign a pledge that they will comply with “executive orders prohibiting unlawful discrimination on the basis of race or color” to receive federal funds. The proposed pledge warns that race-based scholarships, hiring preferences, diversity statements and more may constitute illegal discrimination, in the government’s opinion.
4/1/26Bloomberg
H-1B Wage Overhaul Proposal Adds to Sticker Shock for Employers
A new Labor Department proposal would raise wages for some foreign workers on H-1B visas above many of their American counterparts, a move meant to discourage employers from tapping overseas talent that attorneys say will likely push companies to explore alternatives to the program. Under a recent DOL proposed rule , annual wages would increase by $16,000 for an entry-level automotive engineer in Detroit on an H-1B visa. For a software engineer in Silicon Valley sponsored through the program, they would go up by $40,000, based on the agency’s wage survey data
3/31/26NOT-OD-26-064
Update of NIH Late Application Submission Policy and End of Continuous Submission
3/30/26Forbes
Under Trump, NIH Funding Opportunity Notices Dropped From 787 To 84
The 24 grantmaking institutes and centers of the U.S. National Institutes of Health are supposed to regularly publish what are called Notices of Funding Opportunities or NOFOs for short. But don’t be surprised if you find no FOs for whatever biomedical research you may be doing. In the first 13 months of the second coming of the Trump administration, the number of NOFOs that the NIH has dropped into its website has dropped down to only 84, based on a count from Jocelyn Kaiser writing for Science . Compare that to the 787 NOFOs that were posted throughout 2024