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MichMan

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6. My point is that colleges would rather stop Phd programs instead of spending any of their own precious money on them

Reply to NNadir (Reply #5)

Sat Mar 1, 2025, 09:41 PM

Mar 2025

Only interested in continuing them if they can use our money instead of theirs. All while paying the graduate students actually doing the work a mere pittance.

Penn is already charging $66,000 a year for tuition. $66,000 ! I'm not feeling at all sorry for them

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US universities curtail PhD admissions amid Trump science funding cuts [View all] NNadir Mar 2025 OP

Perfect: So many quotables. "toxic immigrant billionaire and a functional idiot who has never read a book ..." erronis Mar 2025 #1

They all have billion dollar endowments MichMan Mar 2025 #2

I went to a lecture this morning by Andrew Houck at Princeton, and when asked about the effect of DOGE... NNadir Mar 2025 #3

Penn only has $22 Billion in endowments MichMan Mar 2025 #4

An your point is what exactly? That science should be privatized and only for the wealthy? NNadir Mar 2025 #5

My point is that colleges would rather stop Phd programs instead of spending any of their own precious money on them MichMan Mar 2025 #6

Penn is hardly representative of American Universities, nor for that matter, is Princeton or any Ivy. Any disgust... NNadir Mar 2025 #7

Penn was specifically mentioned in the OP MichMan Mar 2025 #8