Colleges and universities are stepping in financially to support graduate students and faculty impacted by the Trump administration's sudden cancellation of federal research grants. Institutions like Yale and Johns Hopkins are using their endowments to provide temporary funding for affected researchers. This response highlights a growing concern over declining federal support for academic research, which has decreased from 71% of funding to 55% over recent decades. This trend raises questions about the sustainability of research initiatives without federal backing.
"Over the past several decades, universities have already substantially increased the amount of money they spend on their own research and developmentâfrom 10 percent of the total in 1970 to 25 percent in 2023, according to federal data."
"While institutional funding will help some researchers continue their work in the short term, experts and research advocates say it's far from a long-term solution."
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