Post #3629152
2026-07-06 13:46 UTC
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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange 2026-07-06 14:01
@mattblaze@federate.social Yup. Let me put this in quantitative terms. As far as I know, in all US research universities every CS PhD student is fully funded. This might be by a student's own fellowship, from their employer or home country, but considerably more often it's via research grants. The funding has to cover all of tuition plus a stipend to cover (subsistence-level) living expenses, plus necessary research travel and equipment, e.g., laptops. (There's also "overhead", a separate complex topic I won't go into.) At Columbia, where I taught before I retired, that meant that every PhD student required $80-100K per year. A typical faculty member had a group of about 5 PhD students. This meant that we had to bring in an average of $400-500K per year in new research funding, every year, plus more if you needed specialized lab equipment or money for cloud services or the like. And I was not allowed to admit PhD students unless I could show that I had money in hand for their first several years.
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@RunRichRun@mastodon.social 2026-07-06 13:55
@mattblaze@federate.social @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange If the crimp in the PhD pipeline isn't enough, partisan strings now being attached to federal research grants — when/if money is made available/released — add to setbacks the US scientific community is facing. They're self-inflicted injuries by a jingoistic, lying administration intent on racing to the bottom — back to the Dark Ages. It's terrible. https://www.thedp.com/article/2026/07/penn-researchers-office-management-budget-funding-grant-trump