{"id":79708,"date":"2026-02-23T23:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=79708"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:18:21","slug":"what-america-is-doing-to-its-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/what-america-is-doing-to-its-science\/","title":{"rendered":"What America is doing to its science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"auto\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66221\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/opesourcescience.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/opesourcescience.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/opesourcescience-250x141.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Visa restrictions for foreign researchers and students, political attacks targeting some of the world&#8217;s leading research universities, and sudden suspensions of public funding, particularly in the fields of climate and the environment: since Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election in November 2024, these decisions have generated considerable media surprise. They are often presented as a radical break with the American model of supporting science. Alarmist headlines in the international press speak of an\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/24\/podcasts\/the-daily\/trumps-escalating-war-with-higher-education.html\"><span dir=\"auto\">&#8220;open war on universities<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0,&#8221; an\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/value-policies-funding-cut-universities-colleges-start-fighting-back\/\"><span dir=\"auto\">&#8220;accelerated drying up of scientific funding,&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0or even &#8220;science under siege\u00a0.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/podcasts\/2025\/10\/25\/science-under-siege\"><span dir=\"auto\">&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">However, while their form and speed are striking, their logic is far less novel. These measures are part of underlying and now structural trends. They accelerate long-identified weaknesses: a relative and discontinuous disengagement of public investment, an increasing reliance on private funding, a concentration of resources in a few sectors and institutions, and above all, a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ncses.nsf.gov\/indicators\"><span dir=\"auto\">lasting dependence on foreign doctoral students and researchers<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0for the advancement of many scientific frontiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">American scientific leadership is the product of a specific historical trajectory. Beginning in the 1950s, within the context of the Cold War, the federal government invested heavily in research and higher education, alongside the efforts of numerous private philanthropic foundations. Public funding, academic autonomy, and international openness then formed a coherent whole, serving American soft power. For several decades, the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/41149417?seq=6\"><span dir=\"auto\">indicators converged<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0\u00a0: dominance of scientific output, capacity for innovation, exceptional international appeal, and an accumulation of Nobel Prizes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span dir=\"auto\">More erratic public funding<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">This balance, however, began to weaken in the 1990s. In absolute terms, the United States remains the world&#8217;s leading funder of research, with domestic R&amp;D spending representing approximately 3.4% of GDP in the early 2020s. But the distribution of this effort has changed dramatically: nearly 70% of American R&amp;D is now funded by the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaas.org\/news\/research-rd-funding-different-functions-public-and-private-rd\"><span dir=\"auto\">private sector<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0, while federal research spending has stagnated at around 0.7% of GDP. This dynamic contrasts sharply with that of several Asian countries, particularly China, where\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/en\/data\/insights\/statistical-releases\/2025\/03\/rd-spending-growth-slows-in-oecd-surges-in-china-government-support-for-energy-and-defence-rd-rises-sharply.html\"><span dir=\"auto\">public R&amp;D spending has increased significantly<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0since the 2000s as part of ongoing national strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Public funding is becoming more erratic: universities are increasingly relying on tuition fees and private partnerships, while extended programs and scientific careers are becoming less accessible for some American students.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/adamminsky\/2026\/02\/04\/education-departments-overhaul-of-student-loans-moves-to-final-stage\/\"><span dir=\"auto\">The latest reform, initiated in 2026<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0by the Trump administration, which significantly caps federal loans for master&#8217;s and doctoral programs\u2014loans that previously covered the entire cost of studies\u2014will further reduce universities&#8217; capacity to provide long-term training, particularly in scientific and technological disciplines requiring several years of study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">The film\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cineaste.com\/fall2014\/ivory-tower-crumbling-or-tumbling-an-interview-with-andrew-rossi-web-exclusive\"><em><span dir=\"auto\">Ivory Tower<\/span><\/em><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0, directed in 2014 by filmmaker Andrew Rossi and drawing on the analyses of sociologist Andrew Delbanco, already warned of the signs of exhaustion in the American university model. It is in this context that the reliance on foreign students and doctoral candidates is increasing sharply, particularly in mathematics, technology, and data science.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span dir=\"auto\">A dependence on foreign students<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itif.org\/publications\/2024\/12\/09\/temporary-visa-holder-doctorate-recipients-s-and-e-fields-have-increased\"><span dir=\"auto\">The National Science Foundation&#8217;s annual reports<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0show that, as early as the mid-2010s, temporary visa holders constituted a significant\u2014often majority\u2014of doctoral students in several key disciplines: nearly two-thirds of computer science PhDs, and more than half in engineering and mathematics. The vast majority of them (80%) then remain in the United States if immigration policy allows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ncses.nsf.gov\/pubs\/nsf22300\/figure\/3#citizenship\"><span dir=\"auto\">This dependence, which has only increased<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0, is not marginal: it now constitutes a pillar of the daily functioning of American research. The immigration restrictions implemented under the first Trump administration, and then tightened in 2025, only serve to fully expose a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/universites-vers-un-declin-de-lempire-americain-153215\"><span dir=\"auto\">strategic vulnerability for the country&#8217;s future<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">The developments in American science have taken place in a global context that has been profoundly transformed since the 1990s. Research and development spending is increasing rapidly in Asia, while the relative share of the United States and Europe tends to stabilize or even decrease in many OECD countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/bonnes-feuilles-les-mandarins-2-0-une-bureaucratie-chinoise-formee-a-lamericaine-144968\"><span dir=\"auto\">China&#8217;s trajectory is central in this regard<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0. For over thirty years, China has pursued a continuous strategy, combining massive investments, long-term planning, the development of &#8220;key laboratories,&#8221; a redefinition of the rules of the game for international rankings, the upgrading of doctoral programs, and active policies promoting publication and the return of expatriate researchers. This trajectory is not simply a matter of technological catch-up, but rather a selective appropriation of models of training, organization, and scientific governance, partly inspired by the American experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span dir=\"auto\">China, a major player in scientific production<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">The results are tangible today:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(26)00084-X\/fulltext\"><span dir=\"auto\">rapid growth in scientific publications<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0\u2013 in 2024 China became the world&#8217;s leading country in terms of the volume of articles indexed in the\u00a0<\/span><em><span dir=\"auto\">Web of Science<\/span><\/em><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0database , with nearly 880,000 annual publications, compared to around 26,000 in the early 2000s \u2013 and above all a growing presence in patent filings: nearly 1.8 million applications in a single year, more than three times the American volume, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wipo.int\/web-publications\/world-intellectual-property-indicators-2025-highlights\/en\/patents-highlights.html\"><span dir=\"auto\">WIPO<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">In addition, targeted policies are being implemented to attract or bring back Chinese researchers trained abroad, gradually reducing the historical asymmetry with the United States. Far from producing political openness, this controlled circulation of models contributes to the modernization of the state while strengthening the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monde-diplomatique.fr\/2021\/01\/LO_PORTO_LEFEBURE\/62646\"><span dir=\"auto\">power&#8217;s ability to control and legitimize scientific and administrative elites<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/15\/us\/harvard-global-ranking-chinese-universities-trump-cuts.html\"><span dir=\"auto\">The recent <\/span><em><span dir=\"auto\">New York Times<\/span><\/em><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0article highlighting the relative decline of Harvard and other American universities in certain global rankings was interpreted as a wake-up call, a sign of sudden decline. In reality, these rankings primarily reveal gradual shifts in relative positions, indicative of long-standing restructuring. American universities remain prestigious and selective, but they are no longer alone at the top in a scientific landscape that is now multipolar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wipo.int\/pressroom\/fr\/articles\/2025\/article_0009.html\"><span dir=\"auto\">International innovation indicators<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0confirm this observation: in absolute terms, the United States remains one of the world&#8217;s leading investors in research and development. However, its relative lead is eroding: since the early 2000s, the growth of its R&amp;D efforts has been significantly slower than that of many competing countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79709\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/innovationIndex.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/innovationIndex.png 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/innovationIndex-250x188.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Beyond the decisions of the Trump administration, the causes are structural: continuity and level of public investment, capacity to train and retain talent, coherence of scientific priorities, and the emphasis placed on fundamental research. While China and several Asian countries have integrated science into long-term national strategies, the United States has allowed inconsistencies and imbalances to accumulate, relying on the gains of its past attractiveness. Nevertheless, it retains universities of exceptional standing, significant funding and innovation capabilities, and a still largely dominant power of attraction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">In the short term, there is no indication of a sudden decline. However, the sustainability of this leadership can no longer be taken for granted. It is now directly affected by explicit challenges to academic autonomy and the ordinary operating conditions of universities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">This leadership will depend on the ability of universities to freely recruit their teachers and researchers globally; to maintain policies and training and research programs that are immune to political cycles; to protect their leaders from partisan pressures; and to guarantee students and researchers stable intellectual working conditions and career prospects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">It is precisely these conditions that Donald Trump&#8217;s recent decisions have rendered permanently uncertain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Author Bio: <\/strong>Alessia Lef\u00e9bure is a Sociologist, member of the UMR Ar\u00e8nes (CNRS, EHESP) at the School of Advanced Studies in Public Health (EHESP)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visa restrictions for foreign researchers and students, political attacks targeting some of the world&#8217;s leading research universities, and sudden suspensions of public funding, particularly in the fields of climate and the environment: since Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election in November 2024, these decisions have generated considerable media surprise. 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