SUNY Has Lost $32M Due to Federal Cuts

SUNY chancellor John B. King (left) said some of the grants were cut because of the system’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

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The State University of New York system has lost about $32 million in federal grants due to the Trump administration’s cuts, system chancellor John B. King announced last week, according to Spectrum News 1. That’s out of about $700 million in federal grant funding that the system receives annually. Some of those cuts were due to the administration eliminating grants for projects that it considers to be related to diversity, equity and inclusion.

“In some cases, those grants were cut precisely because of the commitment we have to diversity, equity and inclusion,” said King, a former education secretary who has been critical of the Trump administration’s crackdown on anything it considers DEI. “Many are research grants, so you’re talking about research into things like cancer and innovations that will drive economic development in the state.”

The system had previously projected that it would face $79 million in lost grants due to National Institutes of Health cuts, specifically.