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The Mess of Federal Funds Is Changing the University
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | September 15, 2019 | John Staddon

Posted on 09/15/2019 6:13:21 AM PDT by karpov

The modern American university has changed almost beyond recognition from the form it had even 100 years ago. It is larger, more “diverse,” more of a business, and more industrialized with relatively fewer teachers and more bureaucrats than ever before. Those changes have led to new problems. Higher education, if not broken, is at least seriously injured. Some critics feel the damage is fatal and the whole system should essentially be abolished.

I want to focus on just one cause and a few of its effects. The cause is the involvement of the federal government via the money which is now directly and indirectly funneled into universities, public as well as private.

Even public universities depend to some degree on external funds: The University of California-Berkeley was only 13 percent state-funded in 2014-2015; North Carolina State University received 26 percent of its 2013-2014 budget from the state and 35 percent from “gifts and contracts.”

The effects of this increased reliance on federal funds are loss of autonomy, altered priorities, tuition fees that increase faster than inflation, and a monstrous growth in employees who are neither teachers nor researchers.

(Excerpt) Read more at jamesgmartin.center ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: college; studentloans

1 posted on 09/15/2019 6:13:21 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

Great post!

More people should know about this.


2 posted on 09/15/2019 6:25:20 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: karpov

Thank you, Jimmuh Carter! Thank you, Barack Obama! /s


3 posted on 09/15/2019 6:33:20 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: karpov

We are past Peak Brick and Motar Higher Edumacation.


4 posted on 09/15/2019 6:37:09 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: karpov

I have said many times...Universities, and even schools generally, are our biggest domestic enemy.

Parents: Home School!


5 posted on 09/15/2019 6:46:05 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: karpov
We had a choice in the 50’s and 60’s to choose either education or sports.

The choice then is part of the problem now. College full of million dollar stadiums and empty skulls

I wholeheartedly agree that taxpayer money should not be spent on higher education. Maybe start shifting it towards trade and technical schools?

6 posted on 09/15/2019 6:46:41 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: Paladin2

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2019/06/administrative-bloat-where-does-it-come-from-and-what-is-it-doing/


7 posted on 09/15/2019 6:53:30 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: karpov

ping


8 posted on 09/15/2019 6:57:01 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: karpov

Liberals want forgiveness of student debt.

We have something that will forgive their student debt. It’s called the G.I. Bill. Sign up for military service for 4 years and we’ll forgive your debt. I am good with that plan.


9 posted on 09/15/2019 7:02:35 AM PDT by boycott
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To: airborne

How about not stealing it from those who created it in the first place. I am sick of being ruled by busybody fools who never built a thing in their lives, yet demand that they are wiser than I on how to invest as the spend us into bankruptcy.

Everything Government touches turns to turds.


10 posted on 09/15/2019 7:26:45 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: karpov
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp

This is a lesser known but very inportant part of Eisenhower's military industrial complex speech:

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields.

In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research.

Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.

For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.

11 posted on 09/15/2019 7:53:20 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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so the universities are raping students for higher and higher costs and the tax payers are sending them even more money. I’m going to start a university. Care to sign up?


12 posted on 09/15/2019 8:08:48 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: American in Israel
Everything government touches turns to turds.

I can not dispute that.

13 posted on 09/15/2019 8:10:16 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: Paladin2

Seems like academics is being over powered by the administrative functions at universities. The result, not much learning, but lots of diversity and inclusion. Lots of politics and bullshit. But it’s not just universities. You see it in primary education, corporations and the military too.


14 posted on 09/15/2019 8:23:47 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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It is not more diverse. Melanin molecules are not a measure of diversity if 100% of people with slightly more of them vote the exact same way. You only need one to understand their opinions


15 posted on 09/15/2019 9:22:24 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: karpov

Frankfurt School: Long March Through the Institutions.

They take over the Federal government, then use Federal funding to take over universities.


16 posted on 09/15/2019 2:29:29 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: karpov
Unfortunately the transformation is almost complete. The relentless attack on American institutions are the biggest threat to our liberty.

The enslavement of college graduates by financing worthless degrees and holding a mortgage on the future of the hapless masses of students is crippling.

And for those of us that have earned wealth without the intrusion of Federal assistance, we will be robbed to pay for these socialist programs.

Some one said "To give something for free the government has to first take it away from someone else."

Count me in that group.

17 posted on 09/15/2019 6:21:45 PM PDT by Cannoneer ("Liberty means responsibility, that is why most men dread it." Geo B Shaw)
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To: airborne
Maybe start shifting it towards trade and technical schools?

Have you learned nothing? I don't trust or want the government involved in anything to do with education. Supply and demand work the best even in the market for trade labor.

18 posted on 09/15/2019 6:24:59 PM PDT by Cannoneer ("Liberty means responsibility, that is why most men dread it." Geo B Shaw)
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To: karpov

Colleges are the head of the socialist snake. They need to be re-engineered. I thought online learning would kill them off, but it’s taking too long.


19 posted on 09/15/2019 7:43:23 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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