Amid ongoing federal budget cuts, many US universities have been forced to scale back or freeze PhD admissions. The impact of these reductions is already being felt by students, early-career ...

In the wake of a lengthy graduate worker strike, Boston University said Tuesday that it will not accept any new PhD students in a dozen humanities and social sciences programs, including English, ...

In what it’s calling a “temporary pause,” Boston University has suspended admissions to several PhD programs in the humanities and social sciences in the 2025-26 academic year, as well as paring down ...

In reading the latest news about Boston University and its decision to diminish and cut several PhD programs in the humanities, I have to wonder about the state of higher education (“BU’s deep cuts ...