You may be surprised to hear this from me Darius ... but this is precisely the kind of real-world partnerships UNH has been engaging in that makes the case for the viability, usefulness and importance of the U in our community. Now, if you were gonna tell me that UNH was a major beneficiary of the foolishness that's being doled out for Woke causes by USAID (or perhaps in news to come from the DoE?), THEN I would be super concerned about huge cutbacks. But since UNH has actual valuable results they can point to in all the areas you've cited, and hasn't harmed its institutional credibility with an all-in on the climate foolishness (which I think they've mostly avoided), then UNH is among the good guys, at least in my mind. There is always gonna be a streak of liberalism in academia, I get that, but UNH isn't quite over their skiis on that. As a parent of two UNH grads, I'm grateful both received legitimate career-based educations for the money we paid.
The fact they hosted 45-47 at The Whitt a little over a year ago definitely solidifies them in good standing with me.
It's just the Hockey bit that's annoying me (a lot) these days. And IMO it's one guy who really trampled on that ... and no, it's not the current f coach, or his iconic predecessor ... I think y'all know who I'm talking about ...