The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
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That's the point and the plan. President Elon Musk, MAGAs, and Trump think that any old person can just do research with AI. The only people who believe that are people who never did actual research and never actually produced actual new knowledge.
MAGAs I know from the South don’t want their kids to go to college. They are advocates of home-schooling, and they want their kids to go into trades like farming, plumbing, car mechanic, and soldering. They talk like they don’t need doctors or scientists.
Bullshit. Pitt is a world class research university. The PA state legislature has systematically underfunded Pitt for thirty years. Pitt addressed that by turning itself into a world class research university. Trump and the dumfuckistanis from central PA are killing that.
Same. They fired half of our research unit last August and left us in the dark despite us bringing in millions in grants. I think some of it was in anticipation of the staff union and new administration.
There is going to be a big brain drain out of the U.S.
Intelligent people don't just sit at home and play computer games.
The results will be with us 20 years from now.
so what you are saying is that this bastion of higher education has seen that wrecking ball coming for a month now, but they have waited until it hit to assess the potential damage it would do?
They aren't complying. Universities can't make offers without funding and the federal government is doing everything they can to stop and delay funding and even grant reviews.
Honestly though, does it really surprise you? All those meetings I'm sure your university holds to "keep you informed" are nothing but smoke and mirrors. Same as the university I work at.
The people affected by this stuff are always the last to actually know.
This vile administration is going to set us back years. The rest of the world is free to poach the best talent and that talent will be very willing to go.
Where do you think Vandy's research funding comes from? PA has an absolute gem in Pitt. It is a WORLD CLASS research university. The PA legislature and the MAGAs keep doing their absolute best to destroy Pitt, which, once again is a WORLD CLASS RESEARCH UNIVERSITY. Vandy wishes they were Pitt.
No!!!! We can’t do this to the students pursuing their dreams!!! It’s so incredibly unfair! They got through covid and made it this far, only to be thwarted by the absolute worst and least deserving people in the world!
Pitt will be forced to shut down its branch campuses, all located in Trumplandia. Oakland funds and heavily subsidizes campuses in Johnstown, Greensburg, Titusville, and Bradford. The PA state legislature has spent the past thirty years systematically defunding Pitt, Temple, and Penn State.
This is so sad. What is an endowment for if not for costs like these? I realize Pitt’s not sitting on Ivy League sized money but surely there should be something.
The potential coming calamity to science funding far out scales anything an endowment can handle. This is the responsible thing to do rather than taking on new students and having them move across the world before forcing them out in a year
They are just stupid lemmings trying to please him to stay in office. As the population grows to hate Trump more and more bc of all the pain caused by his policies/ actions they will turn on them and the ruination of our society, country and freedom will
Rest squarely on their backs.
First Vanderbilt and now the University of Pittsburgh. These are incredible places to train students. Students are the centerpiece of many labs and the pipeline for the future, not just in academia, but also industry, patent law, consulting, teaching, and medicine
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Well, Fuck.
#ettd
Intelligent people don't just sit at home and play computer games.
The results will be with us 20 years from now.
The people affected by this stuff are always the last to actually know.
Sorry to my colleagues in other Pitt schools that are affected.
fighting in the court still
Rest squarely on their backs.