<p>So they used to offer dozens of summer research programs … up until 2008. Then a lot of them stopped and got cancelled. Nevertheless, their links remain on a lot of listings.</p>
<p>Why didn’t I hear about this in the news? Or on CC?</p>
<p>Lack of state funding probably killed these programs. Guess it was low-key enough not to warrant any news articles. Or the State of New York probably wanted to avoid the fuss of reporting to the public that funds earmarked for high education were going to be cut.</p>
<p>yeah clearly it was affected by state funding.</p>