This is going to affect every university. Something like 60% of grant funding at my wife’s university comes from federal grants. I’m pretty sure this is going to hamstring universities across the country, and that’s their plan.
Who knows what else they have planned. Turkey went after universities in their authoritarian crackdown, and now they have a straight up brutal dictator. Guess we’ll find out.
I imagine its just a lever to extort concessions. We already saw this awful behavior with threats to block fema funding to victims of California’s fires until California gave in on immigration , water rights, the environment.
All you research grants will be com8ng right through, as long as you end anything they consider woke, DEI, critical race theory, lgbtqia+, equal opportunity, and probably Title IX. You’ll allow the Bible and replace the healthcenter with an anti-choice center, and your money will be on its way.
It’s so dumb as well, they want a domestic economy so they don’t need imports, but don’t want to invest in the education necessary for that economy to be able to compete with those countries that have good public education… Well, some like Musk want foreign visa slaves instead, but while the past USA had some appeal, the new government Musk helped create destroyed that.
I design labs, and my current employer serves primarily higher ed and government clients. This is gonna blow a massive hole in our bottom line, and fear that something like this was coming is why I’m starting to look for employers with an international footprint and/or more private sector clientele. Even if this freeze is only temporary, it’s going to kick off a massive wave of brain drain from universities and federal labs to private industry and foreign institutions, and I don’t blame the folks making those choices, but it’s also gonna impact how much demand there is for my services.
This is going to affect every university. Something like 60% of grant funding at my wife’s university comes from federal grants. I’m pretty sure this is going to hamstring universities across the country, and that’s their plan.
Who knows what else they have planned. Turkey went after universities in their authoritarian crackdown, and now they have a straight up brutal dictator. Guess we’ll find out.
I imagine its just a lever to extort concessions. We already saw this awful behavior with threats to block fema funding to victims of California’s fires until California gave in on immigration , water rights, the environment.
All you research grants will be com8ng right through, as long as you end anything they consider woke, DEI, critical race theory, lgbtqia+, equal opportunity, and probably Title IX. You’ll allow the Bible and replace the healthcenter with an anti-choice center, and your money will be on its way.
It’s so dumb as well, they want a domestic economy so they don’t need imports, but don’t want to invest in the education necessary for that economy to be able to compete with those countries that have good public education… Well, some like Musk want foreign visa slaves instead, but while the past USA had some appeal, the new government Musk helped create destroyed that.
I wonder whether they even understand what a scientific education is.
I design labs, and my current employer serves primarily higher ed and government clients. This is gonna blow a massive hole in our bottom line, and fear that something like this was coming is why I’m starting to look for employers with an international footprint and/or more private sector clientele. Even if this freeze is only temporary, it’s going to kick off a massive wave of brain drain from universities and federal labs to private industry and foreign institutions, and I don’t blame the folks making those choices, but it’s also gonna impact how much demand there is for my services.