How Fed Cash Shapes Campus Hiring

Turns out, those strict diversity hiring rules at universities? They’re not just campus trends—they’re bankrolled by federal grants. Schools like Case Western and UC Irvine have been using NSF money to enforce diversity checkpoints, even pausing job searches if the applicant pool isn’t diverse enough. Deans and diversity officers now have major power over who gets hired, all thanks to millions in federal funding. Wild how much influence those grants have, right? #Education #College #HigherEd