Anonymous
10/21/2025 22:40
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Heartbreaking loss for all of us. Setting back science in ways that we can’t yet see.
Anonymous
10/21/2025 22:38
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Look at the salaries Harvard pays in Cambridge vs researchers at Carnegie Mellon or Case Western. Ivy League Federal welfare.
Anonymous
10/21/2025 22:35
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Maybe Harvard can come clean and self fund. Total disgrace. Ga Tech could do a better job and be more cost efective. Disperse the money to NC State, Purdue, Ohio State etc. Harvard margins and overhead way too high.
Anonymous
10/21/2025 22:28
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Anonymous wrote:SEAS Layoffs: Nearly a dozen staff who directly support students, including advisers and lecturers, were laid off at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences earlier this month — drawing sadness and complaints from undergraduates. In total, the layoffs affected roughly 35 staff in SEAS.
Administrative bloat. They need to go
Anonymous
10/21/2025 22:12
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Anonymous wrote:Just means those on the margins won’t have a free ride PhD.
Has nothing to do with those on the margins. PhD programs are generally funded with a combination of government and university grants, for all of the candidates.
My daughter is leaving the country to pursue a PhD in mathematics because the funding no longer exists here. Who needs mathematicians, anyway?
Anonymous
10/21/2025 22:06
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:$57 billion endowment, enough.
^^^ doesn't know how endowments work
LOL just sit on the endowment and get federal money.
Anonymous
10/21/2025 22:05
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
You understand, the money we are talking about here were competitive grants, not just federal dollars doled out.
Then they can continue to get the grant money.
Anonymous
10/21/2025 22:03
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
You understand, the money we are talking about here were competitive grants, not just federal dollars doled out.
They don't understand, and don't care to try to understand. Hurts their brain to struggle with critical thought.
Anonymous
10/21/2025 21:57
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Anonymous wrote: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.
You understand, the money we are talking about here were competitive grants, not just federal dollars doled out.
Anonymous
10/21/2025 21:56
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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?
It's already happening. Many PhD--STEM and non-STEM--programs across the country admitted fewer new students this year or none at all.
This. And the current Ph.D. grads are going to have a really tough time finding jobs so they will go into industry or flee to science-friendly countries.
This isn't just Harvard. Princeton also didn't accept new PhD students into certain programs where funding was cut. I assume it's the same at most top research universities.
Anonymous
10/21/2025 21:56
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Anonymous wrote:$57 billion endowment, enough.
^^^ doesn't know how endowments work
Anonymous
10/21/2025 21:53
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Anonymous wrote:50% of PhD students in America are foreign born. They get full scholarships to entice them to come. America has not had homegrown talent for a long time. H1B program was started during Cold War to get more scientist to build bombs. Today, 50% of AI research papers are done in China. I think you are all missing the real issue here....
Those foreign students are net benefits to our research institutions and the private sector innovation. If the US doesn't improve the quality of public education for our kids, the "A team"research will no longer be in our country as those foreign born students go to other institutions, not in the US.
Anonymous
10/21/2025 21:47
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Anonymous wrote: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.
Look at the 2nd link OP posted. Layoffs at SEAS that affect undergrad students and science.
Anonymous
10/21/2025 20:53
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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?
It's already happening. Many PhD--STEM and non-STEM--programs across the country admitted fewer new students this year or none at all.
This. And the current Ph.D. grads are going to have a really tough time finding jobs so they will go into industry or flee to science-friendly countries.
Anonymous
10/21/2025 20:46
Subject: Harvard slashing PhD programs + layoffs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I guess the libs have been owned.
When the president of the United States overrides mountains of scientific weather data with a big black sharpie on a map without consequence, I think we have all been owned.
But at least now the White House will have a ballroom?