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American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

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133 points yowzadave | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 22:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | 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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the_snooze ◴[03 Jul 25 00:07 UTC] No.44450186[source]▶
I don't know where that money is going, but from my own experience, research at universities really isn't supported by tuition money. At least in STEM, PhD students are paid for by grants and contracts that their advisors secured from sources like NSF, DARPA, NIH, NSA, etc. Those are the people actually execute the research.

You might want to say tuition should support research, but the reality is that it doesn't.

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ribosometronome ◴[03 Jul 25 00:11 UTC] No.44450216[source]▶
Why would we want tuition to support research?
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1. givemeethekeys ◴[03 Jul 25 07:25 UTC] No.44452516[source]▶
Before universities became so expensive - yes, there was a time when they weren't - it made sense for research funding to come from our taxes.

But, if university is going to be so expensive, then we the people, and especially the students are being double-taxed - first for the education, and then to support research.

The irony of ironies is that all that research is going to put all those students that paid for it out of a job!