Both private and public colleges and universities, including many in Michigan, rely on grants to provide resources and opportunities to their faculty and students. Political science professor Mitchel Sollenberger says that loss could be significant.

Just as a sudden federal funding freeze from the Trump administration was set to go into effect Tuesday evening, a federal judge temporarily blocked the move that would cut off funding to an array of programs and grants around the country.

Michigan officials were scrambling to assess the potential impact of the federal grant freeze, which the White House is defending as an effort to be ‘good stewards of taxpayer dollars.'