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American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

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133 points yowzadave | 2 comments | 02 Jul 25 22:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | source
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givemeethekeys ◴[02 Jul 25 23:58 UTC] No.44450138[source]▶
Are institutions elsewhere massively increasing funding and positions?

Aren't all the non-bankruptible tuition fees providing plenty of funding already? Where's that money going? The football team?

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api ◴[03 Jul 25 00:51 UTC] No.44450464[source]▶
AFAIK the massive influx of cash into universities for the last 30 years or so has gone into administration, which is basically a jobs program, not academics.
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1. TSiege ◴[03 Jul 25 01:02 UTC] No.44450547[source]▶
I believe that's tuition. Grants fund scientists research directly. It funds labs, hires grad students, etc
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2. dotnet00 ◴[03 Jul 25 01:31 UTC] No.44450722[source]▶
A decent chunk of the grant money goes to the university, and a chunk of the money used to pay the students also loops back to the university in the form of non-tuition fees, rent etc.