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[quote=Anonymous]I think it's hard to know.  It's just complete chaos right now and frankly Trump is driving the country off an economic cliff in addition to breaking institutions and potentially higher ed.  What this means over the course of students education right now is hard to say.  How much of this sticks?  That said, the uncertainty alone will drive changes in what a college experience will be like over the next few years vs previous norms.  But much of the infrastructure of how colleges operate is potentially going to be torn apart.  Particularly, our public institutions.  We enter a deep recession and money for our public institutions may get further constrained.  Add in cuts to medicare and the need for states to have to shore that up, plus NIH cuts, and other funding - our large universities will take a hit, regardless of the state.  Though presumably some will be relatively better off than others.  Some schools like Michigan are pretty much privates (though get a lot of federal research funding). Schools like Alabama per their junior senator, may get hit especially hard.

For the student experience, will a student study a subject that usually requires graduate school if those opportunities dry up?  With classes get larger with fewer professors and graduate students to teach?  Will it be harder to graduation on time because required classes are harder to get?

A lot of questions[/quote]

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