Faculty to Chiang: Does Purdue have our backs on federal, state threats?

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PURDUE FACULTY TO CHIANG: DO YOU HAVE OUR BACKS ON FEDERAL, STATE MOVES?

Purdue has a team of administrators tracking federal directives and court orders dealing with research funding and other aspects of campus work and life in the weeks since the second Trump administration started in January, President Mung Chaing told members of the faculty-led University Senate Monday.

Building off a memo sent to faculty last week, Chaing told faculty that the “situation consists of multiple parallel tracks and each changes continuously.”

Chiang told faculty members and researchers the university would continue to forward federal agency-specific information to relevant principal investigators tied to the funding decisions or court developments whenever the university receives them.

(Photo: Dave Bangert)

That included, Chiang said, stop or cease work orders or developments tied to a National Institute of Health directive that would cap the indirect cost rate for research grants – a move blocked by a temporary restraining order but that would cut millions of dollars in funding for Purdue.

“At any given moment, there are many questions that we don’t know the answers to, just like you,” Chiang said. “And we cannot execute on hypothetical directives that have not been given to us.”