[SampleMan]

Spending more, after demand is met, only results in producing more Feminist Studies Majors etc., who’s only skill set is teaching Feminist Studies.

[logic101.net]

Personally I think we need to cut funding and financial aid to higher education. Both these things remove market forces from education. This is why tuition has gone up so much faster than inflation.

If tuition were tied to ability to pay lots of useless majors and research would be killed off.

[dfwgator]

A question for State Universities in general is, what percentage of graduating students actually wind up living and working in the state from which they graduated?

Why put in so much money to institutions when other States or even Counties will reap the benefit?

[PapaBear3625]

Stanford University helped spawn Silicon Valley in its surroundings, and MIT spawned lots of tech activity around Cambridge and Massachusetts in general. But that was because you had professors and students participating in commercial ventures while still being at their universities.

What could a school of social work do to keep people local?