{"id":6747,"date":"2025-04-18T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/?p=6747"},"modified":"2025-04-18T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:02:08","slug":"april-18-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/2025\/04\/18\/april-18-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"April 18, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Recent Federal Actions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Department of Energy: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/department-energy-overhauls-policy-college-and-university-research-saving-405-million\">Department of Energy Overhauls Policy for College and University Research, Saving $405 Million Annually for American Taxpayers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Department of Education: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/press-release\/joint-task-force-combat-anti-semitism-statement-regarding-harvard-university\">Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism Statement Regarding Harvard University<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Department of Homeland Security: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2025\/04\/16\/secretary-noem-terminates-27-million-dhs-grants-orders-harvard-prove-compliance\">Secretary Noem Terminates $2.7 Million in DHS Grants; Orders Harvard to Prove Compliance with Foreign Student Requirements<\/a><\/li>\n<li>House Oversight and Government Reform Committee: <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/comer-stefanik-launch-investigation-into-harvards-flagrant-disregard-for-civil-rights-laws-despite-receiving-enormous-amounts-of-federal-funds\/\">Comer &amp; Stefanik Launch Investigation into Harvard\u2019s Flagrant Disregard for Civil Rights Laws Despite Receiving Enormous Amounts of Federal Funds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>New! FAQs for International Students on Visas, LRPs, and SEVISs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve added new FAQs addressing visa revocation\/LPR status rescission, SEVIS record termination, and federal agent request for access to location, information, or records on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/federal-updates\/international-resources\/\">International Student, Faculty &amp; Staff Resources page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Department of Energy Indirect Costs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As noted above, late last week, the Department of Energy (DOE) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/department-energy-overhauls-policy-college-and-university-research-saving-405-million\">announced<\/a> plans to \u201climit financial support of \u201cindirect costs\u201d of DOE research funding to 15%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, however, on April 16, Judge Burroughs of the District Court for Massachusetts granted a <a href=\"https:\/\/aplu-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRO-granted-AAU-et-al.-v-DOE-4.16.25.pdf?mkt_tok=NjAzLVVSVy0xMjcAAAGZ3tPJJfzqhbflqhy4kY-lq22Pz4vUlNb-1lRDQMRzVitW0-Xq7BjGuEFb2zJ5s90Jk318xIiSke2TLJ_AEQLdoHkPMEHZqMABgbym4NkEi-w\">Temporary Restraining Order<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/aplu-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1.pdf?mkt_tok=NjAzLVVSVy0xMjcAAAGZ09N8aE_Zd89V9X00MIDM24iv3eHRX2-cdIk52AHnwFYTxt-i-q14csLCv20OTKDn_euVFsa9uGZRYXfDEo4\">litigation<\/a> that had been filed in opposition to the previously announced DOE plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Op Ed on Student Visas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UW-Madison Chancellor Mnookin released an Op-Ed in the Wisconsin State Journal on April 17, which you can read at the following link: <a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/opinion\/column\/article_bcd060ea-824f-11ef-8f45-7f762896154c.html#tracking-source=home-top-story\">Revoking Student Visas at UW-Madison is Arbitrary, Unjust<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Federal Actions Department of Energy: Department of Energy Overhauls Policy for College and University Research, Saving $405 Million Annually for American Taxpayers Department of Education: Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism Statement Regarding Harvard University Department of Homeland Security: Secretary Noem Terminates $2.7 Million in DHS Grants; Orders Harvard to Prove Compliance with Foreign [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fed-friday-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6750,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions\/6750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}