Posted on 05/06/2024 7:54:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“The federal government gives $149 billion annually to American universities.”
How much of this is for research. My project was funded with a federal grant.
I’ll say it again. Emphasize community college trade schools and put them on the trimester system. No Sommer-long vacations. Get to work.
The faster they go, the faster they go!!!
That research is done by graduate student slaves working on their PHDs. The ones getting a 35K annual stipend to live on.
This is why my son chose to NOT get a PHD in Biotechnology. He was offered placement at three schools. Accepted one at Ga Tech then decided against it.
I sat next to a guy on an airline flight who was in charge of managing NASA grant money. He was returning from Dartmouth. He had been a USAF pilot and an alternate space shuttle astronaut. He never got picked to go up in space though. At Dartmouth they were studying why space travel effects every astronaut’s eye balls. Everyone spending time on the International Space station becomes near sited.
The major universities are all multi-billion dollar hedge funds that have college classes on the side.
Heard there's a new flame throwing robot dog - costs about a thousand bucks. Nah, it's the left that burns things down, paints graffiti and uses violence and has organizers paid for by monsters in the US and in the Middle East. We're the people who use flagpoles to break two windows...and go to jail for years.
American universities are the enemy of the nation. They hate America and its constitution. They hate the American people being the sovereign owners of the nation.
These institutions are defaming everything our nation holds sacred as its fundamental principles. They preach hatred of white people while swearing loyalty to the terrorists of Hamas.
They should be destroyed as the dangerous and traitorous enemies they have become.
Most of it is via research grants.
My university is a research university and lives on government grants.
It is also a state university, and as such gets state money as well in the form of a 'per head' payment. But that money has gotten smaller and smaller over the past 2 decades, so that student tuition which used to account for less than 1/4 the total cost of an undergraduate degree (with the rest made up for by the state) now accounts for 3/4 of the cost of an undergraduate degree (with the state picking up the last 1/4.)
Major donor grants also account for a significant portion of the budget, but the vast majority is earmarked for new building construction, not scholarships or faculty endowed positions.
“I’ll say it again. Emphasize community college trade schools and put them on the trimester system. No Sommer-long vacations. Get to work.”
If everyone did that you wouldn’t be able to make your post.
“They should be destroyed as the dangerous and traitorous enemies they have become.”
Not destroyed. DeSantis is changing their culture.
Do any such projects deal with topics related to DEI? "How America Is Fundamentally Ray-cist?"
Regards,
Another institution taken over by the left.
Gramsci’s long march through the institutions has proven to be a smashing success for the Marxists.
For the most part, they have outlived their usefulness.
If they got back to actually educating young people and teaching them how to think, instead of indoctrinating them, they would be worth hanging onto.
As it is, trade schools are the best option these days for learning a skill to support yourself.
That is very interesting.......
It's very curious.
It has something to do with the lack of gravity.
Astronauts also have bone loss. Which is why they have to work out every day.
He explained to me that they(NASA) know how to build a rocket that would take people to Mars. The problem is that between the lack of gravity and radiation that the astronauts may not survive the trip.
We exchanged business cards. We became friends on Linkdin. He retired from NASA a few years ago.
I have worked on several NIH and NSF funded projects at universities, in some cases as a Principal Investigator! And I went to Harvard graduate school on an NSF Fellowship!
All our great new lifesaving cancer therapies were initially developed via federal grants to universities!
Science students and faculty are MUCH less likely to support leftist causes like “Palestine”, or to shout down invited speakers whom leftists hate! They don’t have time to interrupt their research!
Keep the science grant pipeline flowing!
Science researchers need new buildings, too!
So does DEI.
Michigan State University Multicultural Center
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