MIT President Sally Kornbluth announced on Thursday that the university’s research enterprise has decreased by 10% compared to the previous year. In a video message, Kornbluth highlighted persistent challenges in graduate admissions, attributing the decline to federal funding reductions, increased taxes on large university endowments, and immigration policy changes that have deterred international students from applying.
“The fact is that we’re looking at a real drop in research being done by the people of MIT,” Kornbluth stated. “Frankly, it’s a loss for the nation. When you shrink the pipeline of basic discovery research, you choke off the flow of future solutions, innovations and cures — and you shrink the supply of future scientists.”
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