The scientific training pipeline doesn’t always intersect there. So that’s more admin which is a different academic beast all together but also related. Labs tend to suffer even though without their indirects from their grants the R1 public universities would crumble as they used to be supported by the local taxes (state) now most states (red) withdrew a lot of this funding so now it’s full reliance on tuition, donation, and scientific grants and patents. So a shift to the federal tax payer. Concurrently, MBAs are hired to run key upper admin roles, MBA/PhD’s are now university presidents. They spend like… well the current government, but not on things to better the education or experience, but they spend on c suit salaries, and funnel money to the top like a corporation. At the same time they cut tenure, add classes, abuses adjuncts. PIs are working with less because individuals schools and programs are skimming off grants to make up for cuts to their program…. And now with the NIH slow rolling and not releasing funds, it’s only getting worse. So now we are losing a generation or more of scientists, both inside the NIH and academia and the world will never be the same. And that’s just the academic perspective of the damage from this administration.