Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:American students don’t want to get PhDs; they just want to make a lot of money.

Yep, that's why so many go into finance and then Wall Street - does little to improve the country as a whole

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just means those on the margins won’t have a free ride PhD.

Not at all. Harvard will continue to offer fully-funded PhDs.

And that's exactly why they need to cut how many positions they offer. Each PhD student costs over $100k per year to fund.

[Anonymous]

Harvard has fed off the federal troughs for a very long time. Spread the federal funding to publics across the nation. From economic standpoint much more cost effective to distribute federal funds to state flagships in states where the cost of living is significantly lower. Housing prices in Cambridge and Boston’s burbs well above $1.5 for decent house. Also by spreading federal funding to state schools all over it would create good high paying jobs and possibly create incubator companies in stem and biotech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard has fed off the federal troughs for a very long time. Spread the federal funding to publics across the nation. From economic standpoint much more cost effective to distribute federal funds to state flagships in states where the cost of living is significantly lower. Housing prices in Cambridge and Boston’s burbs well above $1.5 for decent house. Also by spreading federal funding to state schools all over it would create good high paying jobs and possibly create incubator companies in stem and biotech.

We already spread money around to publics throughout the country. Harvard gets less federal funding than lots of other universities, including publics: https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/how-much-federal-funding-do-colleges-and-universities-receive

[Anonymous]

Usually they need chem and bio PhD students to TA the premed labs and classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid was planning to apply to SEAS at Harvard…. This just sucks

SEAS is not affected by this cut.

Per the article OP shared, the Phd admission cuts are in the Arts & Humanities dept and the Science dept.
SEAS is a different department within Harvard FAS.

Nor does it affect undergraduate SEAS admissions.

[Anonymous]

$57 billion endowment, enough.

[Anonymous]

This (impact of Trump’s policies) and the Federal cuts to medical research, will impact our children tremendously. But Republicans only care about unborn children.

😳

[Anonymous]

^Sure lol! As if medical research can be only conducted in Cambridge and not Lawrence Kansas or beautiful Boulder Colorado.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:American students don’t want to get PhDs; they just want to make a lot of money.

Speak for your own children.

My child was a biology major who planned to seek a PhD.

Prospects are bleak (with research funding cut so drastically). Federal jobs have also dried up.

But yeah, Trump and his corrupt cronies are all about supporting those who are greedy and self-interested.

[Anonymous]

Do you think old Joe knew what stem means.

[Anonymous]

Probably part of a rose.

[Anonymous]

$57 billion endowment, why do they need to cut? This says more about Harvard than Trump.

[Anonymous]

A school with a $57 billion endowment and their ultra rich alumni network should not benefit as much as State U. Research is transferable. Spread the federal funding every where that is equitable. $57 billion.