{"id":17769,"date":"2025-04-06T11:53:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T11:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/boston-faces-identity-crisis-amid-trumps-cuts-to-university-and-research-funding\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T11:53:44","slug":"boston-faces-identity-crisis-amid-trumps-cuts-to-university-and-research-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/boston-faces-identity-crisis-amid-trumps-cuts-to-university-and-research-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Faces Identity Crisis Amid Trump\u2019s Cuts to University and Research Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For generations, students and researchers from around the world have flocked to Boston, drawn not just to a college or university but to a region where high-minded intellectual life was part of its brand. The Boston area has thrived from their presence, its many schools and top-ranked research hospitals keeping its economy strong and its living standard largely unmatched in the United States. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s the densest concentration of academic talent in the world,\u201d said Lawrence S. Bacow, who served as president of Harvard University from 2018 to 2023 and as president of Tufts University from 2001 to 2011. \u201cUniversities and teaching hospitals are to Boston what cars are to Detroit, what energy is to Houston or finance is to New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, though, the city is seized with anxiety. The Trump administration\u2019s assault on funding for higher education poses a bigger threat to Boston and the surrounding region than perhaps anywhere else in the country. Harvard is facing a government review of $9 billion in federal grants and contracts, several universities are freezing hiring and rescinding admissions offers, research labs are closing, and international students are being targeted for deportation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And Boston is confronting a once-implausible question: Will its core identity survive? <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cBoston is the target in this fight,\u201d Mayor Michelle Wu said in her State of the City speech last month. \u201cWe were built on the values this federal administration seeks to tear down.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There has rarely been cause to question that key component of the city\u2019s identity, since John Harvard donated some 800 pounds of sterling, and his library of 400 books, to the fledgling college that would bear his name, established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636. The first public school in the country, Boston Latin, was founded in Boston a year earlier; the state\u2019s constitution required every town to establish grammar schools. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the centuries since, that formative focus on education has shaped nearly every aspect of the city and state \u2014 Massachusetts consistently ranks near the top in national test scores and health measures \u2014 contributing to its politically liberal identity, and an ingrained sense of superiority that has long been a target of anti-elitist fervor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Beyond the bragging rights they afforded the city, colleges and universities brought enduring economic stability. Enormous investments in research by the federal government, going back to its collaboration with university scientists who helped develop weapons during World War II, fueled decades of technological and biomedical advances, and steady growth in Boston\u2019s educational and medical sectors, where federal research funding built a bedrock foundation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the last fiscal year, Harvard alone received $686 million in federal research grants, while as a group, Massachusetts universities took in more than $2 billion. That does not include separate funding for Boston\u2019s research hospitals: In fiscal 2024, Harvard-affiliated Mass General Brigham took in more than $1 billion from the National Institutes of Health. Altogether, Massachusetts receives more federal research funding per capita than any other state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Research discoveries have spurred private investments that define the city\u2019s landscape, in flourishing neighborhoods like Kendall Square in Cambridge, where the biotech company Biogen has long been an anchor, and in Boston\u2019s Seaport District, where Vertex Pharmaceuticals built its headquarters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent weeks, the jolting disruption to complex funding cycles has caused growing concern about a wave of departures by academic researchers, who may choose to seek more stable funding and job prospects in the corporate world, or at universities abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSome will leave their science behind, and it will end \u2014 after a huge investment, it just falls off a cliff,\u201d said Dr. Wendy Chung, chief of pediatrics at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital. \u201cThe instability is very hard for people who are so hard-working and dedicated to their mission \u2014 they can only be pushed so far before they break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Detainments and deportations of international students from campuses including Tufts and Harvard have sent another surge of fear through a statewide education ecosystem in which 80,000 students, and as much as a third of the faculty on some campuses, have international backgrounds. Fewer may come in the future; others may return home sooner than planned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt makes no sense,\u201d said Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, of the federal crackdown. In a statement, she cited negative impacts for cancer and Alzheimer\u2019s patients, and for the country\u2019s competitiveness, \u201cwith tens of thousands of international students second-guessing coming to school here, and China and other countries recruiting our talented faculty and researchers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday, Massachusetts led a coalition of 16 states in suing the Trump administration \u201cover its unlawful attempt to disrupt grant funding issued by the National Institutes of Health.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration has said that to keep their funding, universities must move aggressively to curb campus antisemitism. In a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-harvard-funding-demands.html\" title=\"\">letter to Harvard<\/a>, officials demanded that the university review programs that \u201cfuel antisemitic harassment\u201d and \u201ccommit to full cooperation\u201d with the Department of Homeland Security. Hundreds of Harvard faculty have signed a letter urging the university to resist the demands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Vice President JD Vance, a graduate of Yale Law School, has praised the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, for aggressively using funding cuts to stamp out certain curriculums and rein in \u201cleft wing domination\u201d of universities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe should be really aggressively reforming them in a way to where they\u2019re much more open to conservative ideas,\u201d Mr. Vance <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/europeanconservative.com\/articles\/dreher\/i-would-like-to-see-european-elites-actually-listen-to-their-people-for-a-change-an-interview-with-j-d-vance\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said in an interview last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As deeply felt as the cuts could be in Massachusetts, where colleges provide 320,000 jobs and $70 billion in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/aicum.org\/economic-impact\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">annual economic impact<\/a>, the pain would extend far beyond New England, city and campus leaders said. Patients around the world would wait longer for lifesaving medical breakthroughs, they warned; towns around the country would lose opportunities to manufacture products invented in Boston and neighboring Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At M.I.T., for example, years of groundbreaking research into fusion energy led to recently announced plans to build <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2024\/commonwealth-fusion-systems-unveils-worlds-first-fusion-power-plant-1217\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the world\u2019s first grid-scale fusion power plant<\/a> in Chesterfield County, Va., an investment of billions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt matters to us here because it\u2019s our economy and employment, but it benefits everyone, in red states and blue states,\u201d Mayor Wu said in an interview. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Wu, a progressive Democrat, is among the high-achieving Boston transplants who came to the city because of its colleges: The valedictorian of her high school class in Chicago, she enrolled at Harvard to study economics, then returned to attend Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Harvard Yard on a recent Saturday, there was little outward sign of the turmoil behind the scenes, as tourists waited in a long line to pose for photos with a statue of John Harvard. The university attracts 650,000 visitors each year, a boon to local tourism; one study found that all the college commencements held across the state each spring deliver a combined economic boost roughly equivalent to two Super Bowls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Thrust into uncertainty, scientific researchers around the city said their ability to plan ahead has been decimated. Dr. David Corey, a Harvard neurobiologist <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/hms.harvard.edu\/news\/pursuing-three-gene-therapies-rare-inherited-disease\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">seeking treatments for Usher syndrome<\/a>, a genetic disorder that causes blindness and deafness, said he had been making rapid progress, and aiming to launch clinical trials of new therapies, when the funding shake-up began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNow, we don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery day the news is different. I have to pay people who work in my lab, so if I don\u2019t know if a grant is coming, do I let people go? I have people who have been with me for 25 years, 10 years. There\u2019s institutional memory there that is important.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Chung, of Boston Children\u2019s, has already felt the brunt of the cuts. A former Columbia University faculty member who came to Boston two years ago, she lost a major funding source for her long-term autism research last month when the Trump administration <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/07\/nyregion\/trump-administration-columbia-grants-cancelled-antisemitism.html\" title=\"\">canceled $400 million in grants<\/a> and contracts to Columbia, alleging that the school had failed to adequately fight antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Brittany Charlton, the founding director of the LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence at Harvard\u2019s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, lost nearly all of her funding; she has terminated staff, given up her salary and may have to shut down her research, she said. A plaintiff in a separate lawsuit challenging the cuts, she said the damage will ripple forward for years to come, as early-career scientists reconsider their options.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSome of the brightest minds may abandon their work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Growing up in a small town in Alaska, Alyssa Connell had dreamed of a career as a doctor and researcher in Boston. She cried when an email arrived in December, offering her a coveted spot in a dual degree program at the UMass Chan Medical School, an hour west of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Connell cried again last month when another email upended her plans: The university was rescinding all offers of admission to Ph.D. programs for this fall \u201cdue to ongoing uncertainties related to federal funding of biomedical research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt was a gut punch,\u201d said Ms. Connell, 23, a teaching assistant and research technologist at Penn State University, where her work is focused on neurodegenerative disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So far, only her Ph.D. program acceptance has been rescinded, so she still plans to enroll this fall at the UMass medical school. But her financial aid package, which would have covered the cost of both degrees, was canceled, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI don\u2019t know how I\u2019m going to pay rent, but hopefully I\u2019ll figure it out, and still find a way to participate in research,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m still very excited about moving to Boston.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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