Department of Education
To date, SRS has not received SWO orders directly from Department of Education. Pass-through entities (where Texas A&M is a subrecipient) can make independent decisions to pause awards.
Federal Stop-Work and Project-termination Notices
Principal investigators: Immediately forward any federal stop-work or project-termination notice to Sponsored Research Services and your designated associate vice president for research.
The Department Education information can be found here:
Executive Order Regarding the U.S. Department of Education
On Thursday, March 20, President Trump signed an executive order, “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities,” to facilitate the closure of the U.S. Department of Education after a reduction in force that took place last week within the department. The order directs the Secretary of Education to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the states and local communities while ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs and benefits on which Americans rely.”
To date, Sponsored Research Services has received a small number of stop-work orders and project termination from the Education Department. In such cases, representatives from SRS, the assigned associate vice president for research (AVPR) and the research dean from the principal investigator’s college will reach out to the principal investigator (PI) to develop a termination plan according to the SWO and termination mitigation strategies. If you as a PI receive notice from a federal agency of a SWO or project termination, please forward to SRS and the assigned AVPR.