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A university president makes a case against cowardice

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450 points pseudolus | 4 comments | 03 Apr 25 12:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.67s | source
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JKCalhoun ◴[03 Apr 25 13:06 UTC] No.43569036[source]▶
Wild that he is some kind of exception. Rolling over, folding is not the university culture I remember.
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1. insane_dreamer ◴[03 Apr 25 19:03 UTC] No.43573925[source]▶
> not the university culture I remember.

that's because universities are now businesses first, research institutions second, and academic institutions third

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2. red_admiral ◴[03 Apr 25 21:02 UTC] No.43575364[source]▶
This point gets to the heart of the matter. The more I look into it, everything else seems downstream from this.
3. dudinax ◴[04 Apr 25 04:13 UTC] No.43578268[source]▶
And yet the US has some of the best universities in the world academically.
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4. bdangubic ◴[04 Apr 25 04:23 UTC] No.43578308[source]▶
it absolutely does not. you pay for paper and the network. the education, except at few rare exemptions, is subpar. talk to any asian and european and ask what they think of attending uni in the US :)