Should be mostly over by September 2021 + safe harbor for 5 to 6 years
Why would anybody enroll in grad school during the pandemic?
No Admissions/Reduced Cohorts for 2021 Cycle
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What is the long-term plan for not accepting PhD students? I know the university has to fund them, but don't most schools get more than that value back in free "teaching assistants"?
It seems weird for future years to have a skipped cohort
Does that mean in 6 years there will be a big lull in the job market, since there will be a whole cohort of graduating PhDs that don't exist? Or maybe that's the year when everyone getting squeezed out of academia right now tries to re-enter?
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Are the departments mentioned seriously not accepting cohorts? Some are private institutions with a lot of resources so it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Sure it does. It's not just or even primarily about cutting resources, but redistributing some of those resources to existing students whose career next-steps are being delayed by the present circumstances. "Produce as many poli sci PhDs as we possibly can" was never the goal anyway.