The Trump administration is cutting funding, while specifically targeting institutions like Columbia. No wonder academics want out<\/p>\n
In six weeks, the Trump administration\u2019s \u201crapid scheduled disassembly<\/a>\u201d of American science has been as sharp and deep as its trashing of the US\u2019s alliances and goodwill; Earth science, weather forecasting<\/a> and early warning systems, medical research<\/a> (including cancer research<\/a>), Nasa<\/a>. Academic grants more broadly<\/a> have been cut, paused and subject to review for a long list of banned words<\/a> (including such contentious terms as \u201cpolitical\u201d and \u201cwomen\u201d).<\/p>\n This has caused universities across the country to reduce their intake<\/a> of PhD students, medical students and other graduate students, introduce hiring freezes and even rescind some offers of admission. More than 12,500 US citizens currently in other countries on Fulbright research grants recently had their funding paused,<\/a> along with 7,400 foreign scholars currently hosted in the US, leaving them financially stranded<\/a>. And, when it came to one foreign academic visiting the US, detaining them and refusing them entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alexander Hurst is a Guardian Europe columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Trump administration is cutting funding, while specifically targeting institutions like Columbia. No wonder academics want out In six weeks, the Trump administration\u2019s \u201crapid scheduled disassembly\u201d of American science has been as sharp and deep as its trashing of the US\u2019s alliances and goodwill; Earth science, weather forecasting and early warning systems, medical research (including … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}