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The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia

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146 points MaysonL | 1 comments | 12 May 25 02:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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Hilift ◴[12 May 25 09:24 UTC] No.43961113[source]▶
> Universities are left to defend The Promise of American Higher Education alone.

"Only the federal government can provide the funding needed".?

NSF fields 40,000 proposals per year, 110 per day.

The US is unlike other countries. By design, each state has their own capabilities, and owns everything except that which is specifically provided to the federal government. The combined capabilities of California and Massachusetts equal the remainder of the country. There's nothing to prevent any state from funding the universities in their states.

Was it more convenient before? Sure, but there is now an inflection point where more than 50% of the country "don't like you and wish you weren't here". You don't have to get beat up at the bus stop if you walk or take an uber.

This is hardly unique to research or higher education. All 50 states have negligently constructed budgets to rely on copius federal funding for health care (Medicaid) and education. That makes it easy for a petulant politician to kick sand in your face and "disrupt" that.

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1. Dumblydorr ◴[12 May 25 13:00 UTC] No.43962433[source]▶
I work in Medicaid tech. You’d say it’s negligent for a state to receive federally matched dollars which by the constitution should be touched by the legislature only? Is it negligent to take money matching your own spend, thinking in a lawful regime, only congress could stop the dollars flowing?

The problem inherent in your post is it is not easy for a petulant politician normally, but blatant law breaking, ignoring judges, passing over the separation of powers: this is not “easy”. This is remarkably unusual, for decades republicans spoke of this and nothing happened. Until the fasicism creeps in and the cult of personality takes hold.

So speaking like we should go be 50 of our own countries, reinvent every wheel 50 times, you’re sacrificing massive efficiency and cost saving gains to do so. It’d take someone who doesn’t care for his people to throw a grenade into Medicaid, and the current admin certainly doesn’t care for its people.