Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
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Anonymous
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I guess it's not limited to schools like Chicago that are in financial crisis. What's Harvard's excuse? They are literally sitting on billions.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/seas-layoffs-student-advisors/ |
Anonymous
| Just an example of why US had lost its long held lead in the sciences |
Anonymous
Most of the cuts are in non STEM programs. |
Anonymous
| This is sad. |
Anonymous
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My kid was planning to apply to SEAS at Harvard…. This just sucks
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Anonymous
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Does this mean to sway your kid away from a PhD path in science/engineering?
If it’s happening at Harvard, does this mean it will happen everywhere? |
Anonymous
| Large organizations that have been around a long time sometimes need to tighten things up. Maybe they'll be better off in the long run. |
Anonymous
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Negotiate.
If you do not negotiate, you lose. |
Anonymous
While this country voted to decide that Harvard sucks. Makes no sense but that's how we voted. |
Anonymous
75% cuts in the Department of Science. |
Anonymous
There's a lot of analysis saying that high level science education is moving out of the United States and that other countries are racing to compete for it. |
Anonymous
| Just means those on the margins won’t have a free ride PhD. |
Anonymous
If this country doesn't want to fund high-level science education and research, other countries will compete for it. |
Anonymous
Go jump in a lake, you pathetic, contemptible Quisling. |
Anonymous
Again, US will be funding the A and B teams, rest of the world will be funding the scrubs. |