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Johns Hopkins University, one of the country’s leading centers of scientific research, said on Thursday that it would eliminate more than 2,000 workers in the United States and abroad because of the Trump administration’s steep cuts, primarily to international aid programs.
The layoffs, the most in the university’s history, will involve 247 domestic workers for the university, which is based in Baltimore, and an affiliated center. Another 1,975 positions will be cut in 44 countries, affecting the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, its medical school and an affiliated nonprofit, Jhpiego.
Nearly half the school’s total revenue last year came from federally funded research, including $365 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development. The university will lose $800 million in funding over several years from U.S.A.I.D., which the Trump administration is in the process of dismantling.
Johns Hopkins is one of the top university recipients of the funding that the administration is aiming to slash. And it appears to be among the most deeply affected of the major research institutions that are reeling from cuts – or the threat of cuts – to federal money that they depend on for research studies and running labs.
The university will eliminate about 2,000 workers, with 247 domestic workers and 1,975 in 44 countries affected by the cuts, which include programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development through which American universities have worked with global partners, largely to advance public health and agricultural research.
In addition to the layoffs, the university said that an additional 78 domestic employees and 29 international employees would be furloughed at reduced schedules. Research projects that are being eliminated include international work on tuberculosis, AIDS, and cervical cancer, as well as programs that directly benefit residents of Baltimore.
The administration has also targeted specific schools for cuts. It slashed $400 million from Columbia’s budget last week based on accusations that it had failed to protect students and faculty from antisemitism. The administration has threatened to reduce federal funding for schools on the list, and others, that it views as not being compliant with federal civil rights laws.
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