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University system warns $250 million in federal research funding at risk after stop‑work orders, indirect‑cost cap proposals
Summary
Chancellors told the study committee that about $250 million in federal grants flow to the University System annually; recent stop‑work orders totaling about $9.5 million and proposed caps on indirect cost recovery could cut several million more and threaten research jobs and university partnerships with industry
University System leaders told the Public Higher Education Study Committee that federal actions and proposed policy changes threaten research funding that supports campus jobs, industry partnerships and regional economic development.
Chancellor Catherine Provencher told the committee the university system receives about $250 million a year in federal grants. She said the system had received roughly $9.5 million in stop‑work orders from federal agencies and that a proposal to cap indirect cost (facilities and administrative)…
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