OPINION
In the wake of major federal funding cuts, Columbia University has announced 180 job losses, sending shockwaves through its academic and research communities. Faculty are urgently exploring ways to safeguard essential medical research—and one idea gaining traction is a temporary pay cut for high-earning staff. Could a short-term show of solidarity help preserve jobs and protect Columbia’s research legacy?
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In recent years, the study of mis- and disinformation has again become polarized, as in the 1930s when the world was turning to fascism after emerging from World War I. Funding for mis- and disinformation research has been cut, jeopardizing research at major universities including Stanford and Harvard. With the re-election of Donald Trump as president, researchers are wondering what will come next.
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56 years to the day that Columbia called the NYPD on demonstrating students in an infamously brutal raid, protestors occupying Hamilton Hall were arrested and charged with criminal trespassing. So many decades after 1968, it’s not clear how much Columbia has really changed. Nor is it clear who the University stands behind.
In the wake of major federal funding cuts, Columbia University has announced 180 job losses, sending shockwaves through its academic and research communities. Faculty are urgently exploring ways to safeguard essential medical research—and one idea gaining traction is a temporary pay cut for high-earning staff. Could a short-term show of solidarity help preserve jobs and protect Columbia’s research legacy?