University in Los Angeles makes changes amid slashes to research funding and investigation over campus protests<\/p>\n
The University of Southern California<\/a> announced an immediate hiring freeze for all staff positions, \u201cwith very few critical exceptions\u201d in a letter<\/a> to faculty and staff on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The letter, from USC\u2019s president, Carol Folt, and provost, Andrew Guzman, said the hiring freeze was one of nine steps to cut the school\u2019s operating budget amid deep uncertainty about federal funding \u2013 given sweeping cuts to scientific research, the reorganization of student loans, and an education department investigation accusing the university of failing to protect Jewish students during protests over Israel\u2019s destruction of Gaza following the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" University in Los Angeles makes changes amid slashes to research funding and investigation over campus protests The University of Southern California announced an immediate hiring freeze for all staff positions, \u201cwith very few critical exceptions\u201d in a letter to faculty and staff on Tuesday. The letter, from USC\u2019s president, Carol Folt, and provost, Andrew Guzman, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}