As Trump Goes after Universities, Students Now on the Chopping Block
Stephanie Saul | 06 March 2025 | Business Standard
In the early weeks of the Trump administration’s push to slash funding that colleges and universities rely on, grants and contracts had been cut and, in a few cases, researchers had been laid off.
In recent days, the fiscal pain has come to students.
At the University of Pennsylvania, administrators have asked departments in the School of Arts & Sciences, the university’s largest school, to cut incoming Ph.D. students. In some cases, that meant reneging on informal offers, according to Wendy Roth, a professor of sociology. Her department had to decide which of the students would be “unaccepted.” Dr Roth, chair of graduate education, was chosen to explain those decisions to them…