The President’s assaults on federal research funding, Grad Plus loans and foreign students have halted a decade of graduate program growth. A shakeout is coming.
F or more than a decade, graduate programs have been a growth engine for the nation’s universities, fueled by uncapped federal Grad Plus loans for U.S. citizens and permanent residents, a flood of tuition-paying international students, and tens of billions in federal research grants. Now, President Donald Trump, with an assist from the Republican-controlled Congress, has abruptly cut off the fuel supply and thrown that engine into reverse. A painful adjustment is just beginning.
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