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President Drake warns of federal actions threatening UC research, announces hiring freeze and financial plans
Summary
UC President Drake told Regents the university faces three primary risks—federal research funding cuts, Medicare/Medicaid reductions affecting UC Health, and attacks on university values—and said the system will prepare financial strategies, impose a systemwide hiring freeze and use legal and advocacy tools to respond.
University of California President Drake told the Board of Regents that the system faces “unprecedented” federal policy shifts that threaten research funding, health-care revenues and institutional values, and outlined immediate steps the Office of the President is directing campuses to take.
Why it matters: Federal actions that reduce grants or contracts, or that cut Medicare and Medicaid, could materially affect research jobs, patient care and the university’s ability to…
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