The Trump administration's funding cuts are significantly impacting colleges and universities, leading to layoffs of researchers and reductions in incoming Ph.D. students, particularly at the University of Pennsylvania. Faculty members, like Dr. Wendy Roth, were tasked with delivering distressing news to students who had informal offers revoked. As a result of these cuts, universities face financial uncertainty, with projected losses of millions in NIH funding. These measures are framed by the administration as efforts to eliminate wasteful spending, provoking emotional responses from those affected.
Since taking office, the Trump administration has issued orders that threaten to broadly undercut the financial foundation of university-based research, including deep reductions in overhead cost reimbursements through the National Institutes of Health.
At the University of Pennsylvania, administrators have asked departments in the School of Arts & Sciences to cut incoming Ph.D. students, resulting in some universities reneging on informal offers.
Two of them, I would say, were extremely upset. One person was in tears...it's just the most terrible thing to get that kind of news when your plans are made.
Katie Miller, who is working with Elon Musk's team to trim federal spending, said the cuts would end liberal D.E.I. deans' slush fund.
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