Basically we are looking at a pandemic/Great Recession sized disaster heading toward higher ed in the US, for no other reason than the fact that the Republican Party is in a culture war with academics.
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Robert Kelchen
It's time to start a thread on higher ed budget cuts announced due to actual and potential cuts to federal funding. Northwestern is placing additional scrutiny on all spending and trying to cut non-personnel spending by 10% this year.
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And couple all that with the cuts to sponsored funding? It's downright terrifying.
Capitalism is their real God.
This isn't a culture war: this is a religious war.
And lots of law schools adopt the economic theories of economic schools which don’t understand law
So also don’t understand what a legal unit of account is
It’s a mess
But what it does mean is that our government creates our currency out of the thin air of law
But I don’t call currency collapse “going bust”
I call it the collapse of the rule of law.
Which creates chaos
Which is either resolved via reviving rule of law or might makes right
It’s that the party in power is bent on destroying the sector, just because “fuck woke”
We are just reliving Chinese history aren't we?
I am not blaming academia for its cowardly "leadership."
I take your point, but I am making a related one. And I realize there is politics within universities as well.
Putting Republicans in charge of government is like putting militant vegans in charge of your BBQ.