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It’s the grad programs most especially.

That’s where the R&D comes in. And the funding. And the subsequent theft.

Any prof or instructor is beholding to ccp because they need the students and ccp provides the students and pays their way.

Wasn’t it kruschev that said something about rope we’d hang ourselves with?

In this case, money.

In my grad school, there were 2 (this was nearly 4 decades ago) profs who didn’t have any students other than chicoms. Not ‘just asians’. not ‘chinese (HK, Macau, Taiwan, mainland). Chicoms. Their labs were the best in the whole department. New equipment, new chemicals, new everything. Labs 2 or 3 times the size of any of the other labs in the department. And oddly enough, nobody could really tell you, other than the basic ‘field’ they were in, what it was they actually researched...