Our universities have been pulling an NFL for decades.
Folks are tired of it.
Sending your kid away to a university these days almost verges on being some sort of crime against your kids.
What if all the money spent on global warming and other pc crap had been spent on basic research?
When you pick sides based on politics...you’re bound to lose.
The Midwest’s universities are merely following the descent of the elitist’s beloved Coastal Eastern universities into ignomy and irrelevance.
There was s no financial problem for the universities. They can cut out administrative waste and financing for research in the liberal arts and humanities, virtually none of which benefits society. There will be plenty left for valuable scientific research. The universities need more oversight.
Some of this is due to the fallout from SJW and their collaborators holding professor and administrator positions. When SJW’s and liberal arts professors spout “Math is racist”, “Science is a social construct”, shouting down those who disagree in the least, beginning to infect the STEM fields, and otherwise act like the lunatics from Mao’s Cultural Devolution, of course this is going to affect funding for state supported universities. The question asked by Middle America (flyover country, deplorables, and any other epithet the elites hurl at “normals”) is “why should we fund this crap?” And people really started to take notice with the antics of Melissa Click.
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Maybe they could repurpose some of the money going towards courses in LBTQURADV8 studies and Ugandan Basket Weaving.
I just knew it would be because of The Evil Twump rather than their own pervasive collectivism.
We destroyed our national laboratories to fund this worthless crap at the universities.
Let me ask u this, if u want to fund science, would u fund someone who has been doing it for a life time at a national lab, or some kid who just got out of high school?
The funding of university science has a allowed the Marxist leadership at the universities to syphon off money to fund the left leaning arts, and has resulted in universities that should have their buildings torn down, with the ground plowed and salted.
Too much CAGW research and way too much research into 57 gender studies.
The taxpayers’ money comes from other investment opportunities. Opportunities that would have returned ‘dividends’ to all.
An article that pretends otherwise is a lie.
That’s the lie here: that there is no economic cost for this money- it’s ‘free money’.
There’s a lot of junk research that can be cut.
Cry me a river....
Good riddance
Universities perform more than half of all basic research in America, and public research universities in particular account for two-thirds of the $63.7 billion allocated annually by the federal government for research. That spending, in turn, produces more than 2,600 patents and 400 companies a year, according to the Association of University Technology Managers.
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Shouldn’t they be making money from those patents and companies allowing them to fund their own research?
The Left has succeeded beyond their wildest dreams in this area.
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Universities are a waste of money and a huge source of Satanic thinking.
The government should not be funding education of any kind, at any level. So, we ought to be selling off the state colleges and universities to private, for-profit sector where that is possible, and sell off the property of those we can’t sell as going concerns. Same thing for K-12 schools. PARENTS are responsible for deciding whether, how much and by who their children should be educated. We need to free them up to make choices that are best for their families.
What would happen once government schools went away? The marketplace would reward trade and technical schools and punish those that teach useless liberals arts and humanities. The only “soft” areas of study would exist at religious colleges and aimed at raising up champions for God in the ministry.
The study of literature, music, philosophy, women’s studies, black studies, etc. would fade away for lack of subsidies. Research would go back into the hands of corporations and would focus on useful, economy-growing project. Programs granting “science” degrees in crap like “climate science,” “social sciences,” astronomy, archeology, psychology, etc., would become rare.
” -——lack the wealthy private institutions that fuel the knowledge industries found in Silicon Valley or along Boston’s 128/I-95 corridor.
That “corridor “ isn’t in Boston,but it IS in Massachusetts.
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There are a lot of very rich guys who graduated from The Ohio State University. They are welcome to donate their millions to the research programs. Most choose to donate their $$ to the Football team...