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jackyatteau.bsky.social • 9 days ago

Endowments support faculty salaries, scholarships, and basic operating expenses, not research.

And indirectly, teaching quality will suffer. Researchers can teach things that no one else can, including how to do research (duh!).

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jackyatteau.bsky.social•9 days ago

Academic researchers will move where they can do research in addition to teaching, even if that means doing it abroad. Cutting off federal funding for teaching will lead to a national brain drain.

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jackyatteau.bsky.social•9 days ago

The nation will lose leadership in innovation and technology, become weaker economically, and even militarily, and might never recover.

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jackyatteau.bsky.social•9 days ago

Research universities are surrounded by small companies that are spun off from research, often with the active participation of faculty members.

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jackyatteau.bsky.social•9 days ago

They are also surrounded by companies supporting the research, supplying materials like bottled gases and chemicals as well as construction and maintenance, hospitals that run trials of the latest therapies, take advantage of medical students from nearby medical schools while training them, etc.

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jackyatteau.bsky.social•9 days ago

Kill the golden goose you will.

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