“Under Trump, higher education in the US will face a difficult future, featuring an aggressive and intrusive federal government, erosion in funding with no alternatives, a cavalcade of political litmus tests and a decline in the US’s science and technology capability,” wrote John Aubrey Douglass, a senior research fellow and research professor of public policy and higher education at the UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education.
George Blumenthal, UC Santa Cruz chancellor emeritus and UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education faculty member, said he expected other areas favored by Trump, such as space research, to be safe. Douglass said some of Trump’s proposals in his earlier term to cut federal funds failed in part because some Republican lawmakers backed university research in science to give corporations spinoff benefits — “corporate welfare,” in Douglass’ view — and strengthen the nation’s technological and scientific competitiveness.
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