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Stanford will implement a freeze on staff hiring in the University, according to an email from University president Jonathan Levin ’94 and Vice Provost Jenny Martinez Wednesday morning. 

“[The freeze] will affect hiring for staff employee positions for an undetermined duration,” wrote University spokesperson Dee Mostofi in an email to The Daily.

https://stanforddaily.com/2025/02/26/uni...ff-hiring/

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/02/staff-hiring

This is a reasonable cover for not funding the House settlement to the full $20.5. The fully self-funded big-time programs may be OK but there are schools even in the Big 10 and SEC that will have to go slower than they would have liked because of the hole in their research budgets.

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Some thawing in the NIH grant approval process reported by NPR yesterday.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-healt...l-research

The thaw applies only to the first stage of review. Later review stages are still on hold.

[chrisk]

Stanford will implement a freeze on staff hiring in the University, according to an email from University president Jonathan Levin ’94 and Vice Provost Jenny Martinez Wednesday morning. 

“[The freeze] will affect hiring for staff employee positions for an undetermined duration,” wrote University spokesperson Dee Mostofi in an email to The Daily.

https://stanforddaily.com/2025/02/26/uni...ff-hiring/

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/02/staff-hiring

This is a reasonable cover for not funding the House settlement to the full $20.5. The fully self-funded big-time programs may be OK but there are schools even in the Big 10 and SEC that will have to go slower than they would have liked because of the hole in their research budgets.

---

Some thawing in the NIH grant approval process reported by NPR yesterday.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-healt...l-research

The thaw applies only to the first stage of review. Later review stages are still on hold.