Trump’s Attack On Research Funding Hurt Your State University, Too
West Virginia University has lost $555,114 worth of federal grant funding since President Trump took office.
While President Donald Trump’s crusade against American higher education has focused on the Ivy League and other elite private schools, colleges of all types and in all 50 states have been hamstrung by his sweeping cuts to research funding. During the first six months of the Trump administration, federal agencies—primarily the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation—canceled more than 4,000 grant awards worth an estimated $7 billion at over 600 colleges and universities. As intended, it has left universities in blue states bleeding, but a new report from the........
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