A very interesting take from Fareed. This is one of the few on journalists on CNN I like.
The War on Colleges/Cultural Revolution- Fareed Zakaria clip
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“We have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country. The professors are the enemy.” -Vance
Autocrats and strongman regimes love the poorly educated.
Universities are in need of reform. As shooter posted about a semester of anthropology study abroad. No. We don’t need to fund that. Fund it out of your own pocket. Let’s take a scalpel to these professors and universities and cut out what is pure bullshit. And trust me it’s prevalent. Professors just creating work for themselves to justify their jobs. Great. But not with taxpayers dollars.
The attack on indoctrination and woke was a product of the protests and the window into our finest universities being led by people who can’t even talk.
Universities are yet another area worthy of reform. Love seeing it.
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Look I think there’s a common sense approach to this topic. I’m definitely not disagreeing there’s some areas that shouldn’t be funded by tax dollars. In fact it pisses me off that some these most well known schools have such enormous endowments and the money just sits there. I did learn over the weekend though from a financial advisor that you can only use 5% of an endowment per year. I’m a little out of my lane here as maybe there’s a good reason for that, but for universities to fund more of these projects the rules probably need to change. The other issue as has been discussed are the most important research projects losing funding while this attack on schools is taking place. Important research on cancer and other diseases will not be funded in this current environment. Doctors salaries will not be covered and the labatories that cost more than the salaries can’t be built. So what is the fix? We can’t continue to lead the world in research if it won’t be funded.
I’m all for carrying on with and increasing to the extent possible cancer and other impt funding. Anthropology abroad for brown students. No. And the endowments are restricted live off interest great. But let’s increase taxes on them. They don’t get to be a hedge fund that offers classes
There are also important First Amendment issues here, as Zakaria noted.
I did. All of it. Some I addressed in response to eppy. Adding more voices to drown out left indoctrination is impractical. It’s like saying why don’t more loggers want to work at a gay bar.
Remember much of this boils down to who pays for it. I spend considerable time working with three universities. One owns a percentage of my main product. Every time we test even with them we pay a retainer, have a contract, and pay the hourly of students involved. Happy to do it. I love these university private partnerships. What I’m for reviewing is again bullshit soft research that is funded through fed grants that are nothing more than made up work so professors can have jobs
Shooter bitching about vaccine research. Let Pfizer subsidize it. They had record profits from vaccines. And now we hear there’s side effects and they’re immune from tort liability. All reward no risk
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I will add to this that I don’t want universities to become vocational schools. There’s benefit to the soft shit. Obviously. But it also adds expenses, bldgs etc, and what we fund does need to be examined critically.
I think a more apt analogy is the baby/bathwater one.
Trump/Musk are doing great harm.
Universities are facing big cuts to research funding. At Duke, it's a time for 'damage control'
Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.
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Obviously an area in need of funding. But they too can become leaner and meaner. Have you ever been to duke? Maybe we don’t need cherry blossom season. I think how we imagine schools should be reimagined. No difft than govI think a more apt analogy is the baby/bathwater one.
Trump/Musk are doing great harm.
Universities are facing big cuts to research funding. At Duke, it's a time for 'damage control'
Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.
The biggest fck up with how all of this is transpiring is lack of notice. Targets need time to adapt respond etc. there’s a perversion to all of this that’s terrible
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If you guys are into Podcasts I enjoyed this old podcast from Malcomb Gladwell's Revisionist History Podcast. It discusses Philanthropy to Universities and Colleges and the endowments they have. I will copy the show description here. It's worth a listen.
In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a university in New Jersey, an act of extraordinary generosity that helped launch the greatest explosion in educational philanthropy since the days of Andrew Carnegie and the Rockefellers. But Rowan gave his money to Glassboro State University, a tiny, almost bankrupt school in South Jersey, while almost all of the philanthropists who followed his lead made their donations to elite schools such as Harvard and Yale. Why did no one follow Rowan’s example?
“My Little Hundred Million” is the third part of Revisionist History’s educational miniseries. It looks at the hidden ideologies behind giving and how a strange set of ideas has hijacked educational philanthropy.
In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a university in New Jersey, an act of extraordinary generosity that helped launch the greatest explosion in educational philanthropy since the days of Andrew Carnegie and the Rockefellers. But Rowan gave his money to Glassboro State University, a tiny, almost bankrupt school in South Jersey, while almost all of the philanthropists who followed his lead made their donations to elite schools such as Harvard and Yale. Why did no one follow Rowan’s example?
“My Little Hundred Million” is the third part of Revisionist History’s educational miniseries. It looks at the hidden ideologies behind giving and how a strange set of ideas has hijacked educational philanthropy.
This is not actually true. Trustees set policies around investments and spending for endowments. Normally, an endowed fund is capped at 4-5% spending so the endowment can grow over time, but a board of trustees can approve higher spending.
Zakaria’s criticism has some merit.
That said, this administration is still taking the correct approach. Federal Grant funding powering R&D is/was a massive competitive advantage as Zakaria said.
But the universities have shown they can no longer be trusted with the money. Tear the grants down to the studs, build back carefully and slowly.
That said, this administration is still taking the correct approach. Federal Grant funding powering R&D is/was a massive competitive advantage as Zakaria said.
But the universities have shown they can no longer be trusted with the money. Tear the grants down to the studs, build back carefully and slowly.
