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They will be fine... but not all of the research will be funded. PhD students are getting the axe [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-univers...

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That just means that Columbia doesn’t value research except as a way to get money from the government.

And the people dismantling the government are philantrophists /s

No, clearly not. A philanthropist may spend their own money however they want, but the government is spending taxpayer money and should not be so profligate. Why should we give that money to racists and antisemites? Especially a really wealthy institution like Columbia? Let the money go to a school that doesn’t employ racists, or directly to researchers. Researchers do not need to work at schools, you know. Or return the money to the people it was taken from; that would be the best policy economically. Either way we can do something better with it.

When you say antisemite, are you referring to Trump [1] and Musk [2] because none of the other entities mentioned are racist or antisemitic.

[1] https://www.vox.com/world/2016/10/14/13288138/donald-trump-a...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67446800

Endowment are almost always earmarked and released over time for specific things. Uou acting like they have an endless $15 billion fund to do whatever they want with shows you're either entirely ignorant of how this world works or that you're intentionally being misleading.

Grants are required for research.

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