The cuts imposed by the Trump administration on the world’s largest funder of scientific research is just one way university leaders see an administration seeking to “dismantle” higher education.
Last week, the administration announced that it would limit all “indirect funding” from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to 15%. This is usually because it maintains lighting and equipment in labs across the country, especially universities and universities.
“It’s a devastating proposal,” said Neil Ludenteen, former Harvard president and Yale provost. Rudenstine is a recent author of our controversial university. It’s a personal history. “If that was actually happening, it would be totally tragic.”
The cap could result in a $4 billion cut in grants to research institutions surrounded by the Trump administration as savings. Even some Republicans described the cut as “dramatic.”
Ludenteen said that while the only historical threat to compare was the red scare of the 1950s, “Senator (Joe) McCarthy has all sorts of so-called communists in his class, and he has all the university. When I was criticising it.”
“It was a very tough time, but of course he wasn’t the president,” Ludenteen said.
The cuts are from the “hostile takeover” of the governor’s Florida liberal arts agency New College, and from the “hostile takeover” of Florida’s liberal arts agency New College, by Trump’s ally Ron DeSantis, to the professor’s “hostile” Even JD Vance’s comment that there is, reflects Republican attacks on educational institutions. Iowa gender.
Criticism of universities and universities often focuses on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, gender-based protection or education or campus protests.
“It’s a dominant and dominant story right now,” said Lyn Pasqueraela, president of the American College and University Association. Snowflakes.”
“We face existential threats that arise from attacks on academic freedom and institutional autonomy,” Pasquerella said.
“Decisions related to tenure and promotion, curriculum development, curriculum imposed decisions based on Western ideology – it continues – weakening protections for trans students, survivors of sexual assault Student protection, this is all serious, profound and lasting impact on American education.”
The federal court suspended the cuts, pending two cases from 22 Democratic state attorney generals and two federal cases, including a coalition of the Association of Higher Education.
However, the budget is already tight. According to an email from the school’s dean to faculty, Columbia University’s Physicians and Surgeons College suspended all discretionary expenditures, including “employment, travel, procurement, capital projects, events.”
“It will have a major economic impact on universities, not just scientific research by limiting overhead, but humanities and social sciences as well, for scientific research,” Pasquerella said.
NIH is the world’s largest funder of biomedical and behavioral research, with a budget of $47 billion per year. Agency-funded basic and applied research contributed 386 out of 387 Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs between 2000 and 2019, with 100 based on NIH-funded work. The Nobel Prize has been awarded to scientists.
The agency supports this research by distributing more than 60,000 grants per year to individual projects. These grants go to over 2,500 research institutes, and are overwhelmingly universities and universities. They touch on every state and almost every legislative district.
As part of the grant, agents also cover the “indirect costs” of research, including maintaining lights, heating, cooling and maintaining often sophisticated lab equipment.
“Campuses will struggle to pay for the ongoing research needed for (science) and will have to allocate scarce resources, and often means eliminating programs in the humanities and social sciences. I will,” Pasquerella said.
Scientists have been calling for various reforms to the NIH grant system for many years, but universities argue that unilateral and sudden cuts are illegal and difficult, and research institution leaders have been called “apocalypse” in American Science It is called.
NIH grants range from major maternal mortality initiatives to small studies of major killers such as cancer and heart disease, childhood health status, and fluoride and developmental health. It spans the scope of the survey.
Criticism of higher education extends to Trump’s candidates leading the NIH. Jay Bhattacharya is a Stanford University physician and health economist who considered linking university NIH grants to “academic freedom,” as measured by libertarian Thinktank, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Bhattacharya’s profile rose sharply during the pandemic. He is one of the authors of the great Barrington Declaration and is an open letter that has become a focus on opposition to the pandemic lockdown measures.
He said Twitter was blacklisted for the anti-Covid-19 lockdown post before the platform was purchased by billionaire Elon Musk. After purchasing Musk, Bhattacharya was invited to the platform headquarters. According to the agency’s database, Bhattacharya has received $3.7 million in NIH grant.
“[Critics]have made it clear that their intentions are not to reform American higher education,” Pasquerella says. “It’s about dismantling it.”
