ASU Offers Mental Health Resources to Deal With Trump Administration Policies

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Arizona State University (ASU) is offering mental health resources to all staff, faculty, and students who feel they cannot handle the new policies of the Trump administration.

In an email sent out on Tuesday, obtained by The Arizona Daily Independent, ASU Associate Dean Bill Terrill directed aggrieved faculty and staff to reach out to the Employee Assistance Office, and directed students to reach out to the Educational Outreach and Student Services counseling.

Terrill also conveyed special concern over the state of ASU federal funding given the Trump administration’s pause on certain federal grants. Terrill advised that his office has launched a “systematic tracking system” to document all impacted by the federal grant suspension.

That pause on funding ordered by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Monday via a memorandum to all federal agencies was to take effect at 5 pm on Tuesday.

In its memo, OMB directed federal agencies to identify and review the compliance of all of their financial assistance programs, projects, and supporting activities with Trump’s policies and requirements. This memorandum expressly exempted Medicare and Social Security benefits from the pause on funding.

“Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal,” stated the memo.

OMB also directed federal agencies to submit a report on any programs, projects, or activities subject to the pause by February 10.

Trump administration officials advised members of the media there was no required length of time for agencies to sustain their federal funding freeze: just as long as their compliance review of programs would take.

To navigate that federal funding freeze, Terrill directed faculty, staff, and students to an advisory published to ASU’s Research Operations News site.

In their advisory, ASU specifically warned awardees that they may be impacted by President Donald Trump’s executive orders suspending federal grants for progressive initiatives launched under the former administration (such as diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) initiatives, foreign assistance programs, and clean energy). ASU said certain researchers would likely receive notifications of pauses to their program funding.

In compliance with Trump’s executive orders, ASU also ordered researchers to stop all Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) activities immediately, hold off on applying further charges to the award for DEIA purposes, ensure all funds previously allocated for DEIA activities remain unspent and not reallocated to other budget categories, and notify all relevant stakeholders for any scheduled meetings.

However, Trump’s federal funding freeze didn’t go into effect as scheduled. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan issued a temporary injunction on the freeze.

In a Q&A accompanying its memo on the federal funding pause, OMB clarified that the freeze was “expressly limited” to programs, projects, and activities implicated by Trump’s executive orders. OMB clarified that this meant exemptions for programs providing direct benefits to Americans, such as SNAP or student loans.

 

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17 Comments

  1. ABOR needs to get a handle on Arizona Woke-U. Why are they wasting public funds and donations from generous benefactors?

  2. Let’s not forget the culpability of the BOR in all these transgressions of AZ’s universities. Why is the U of A broadcasting the anti-US BBC?

  3. They’ve needed help for their mental health at ASU for years and they just now discovered that? I’m sure cash awards are there for those who suggested it. (Now… raise the tuition again and give their prez a raise.)

  4. Poor Baby ASU, you’ve grown fat off of government money, still screw over the folks that live in Tempe and charge a tremendous amount to students for attending. Maybe you need to trim the fat! Oh and suck it up, life ain’t fair.

  5. And just think, your tax money goes to support this POS university and many others like ASU that do not educate but rather indoctrinate. SSDD in the the liberal land of academia.

  6. Never forget the RINO R Chamber of Commerce grifters that have allowed this at ASU for the last decade. Thank you Mr. Trump!

  7. Finally, someone has acknowledged that Trump Derangement Syndrome actually exists.
    ꓘatie and ꓘris should quit their day jobs and enroll at ASU.

  8. ROTFLMAO – you’ve stopped the poo poo flow of $$$$$$$$$$$ (TAX DOLLARS ) and panic has struck. Call your Mommie, whom ever that is, or is, or isn’t, or was, or might be, what ever… have a nice ‘coffee’ popoo. Good Morning. That smell if you don’t remember is’the roses’

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