Pitt has an endowment of 5.5 BILLION dollars [1]. It really does not seem like they paused all PhD admissions as an honest way to optimize their money. It seem

Pitt has an endowment of 5.5 BILLION dollars [1]. It really does not seem like they paused all PhD admissions as an honest way to optimize their money. It seems like they are using their institutional power to protest Trump's policies, to create a sad state of academic research so that Trump is blamed for it until he reverts his policies. I feel sad for the rejected PhD students that were caught in the crossfire of Pitt's protest. [1] https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/pitt-s-endowment-2022-23 https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/pitt-s-endowment-2022-23