This and other schools seem to think they deserve all of that Gubment Cheez, so much that when it get’s cut they go to court, tell a judge “that’s our money we deserve it…”. All though I have little faith in the current day court system I hope they cancel all of this funding. They can come back and show us what they are doing and convince us why it’s necessary to do said research.
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Me thinks the Folk’s who have lived in these plush digs teaching kids
how to HATE AMERICA, PROTEST, and fund the likes of ‘SAVE the Silvery Minnow ‘Guppy’ (a duckin’ fish!)
in the Rio Grande Stream’ or ‘the Hazards of ‘Cow Farts’ are finding out Trump ain’t playin’ dat game!.
I bet you Dollar’s to Krappy Kreme’s they still secretly have DEI cloistered away or Tears for Palestine Flags! The World is moving on from the day’s of Joey ‘Autopen’ funding High Speed Trains to nowhere
and George Floyd ‘Pavilion’s’ in every Blu-City! are over!.
Next up? Defund the Official Puddin’ Book Mobile Library! ! (The Short Bus Special—EV)
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Entitlement … it’s a disease.
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People can complain about these University and College research funding’s that our Government has handed out left and right since after WWII but there is a reason our Government has done that. UC Berkeley played a massive role in the Manhattan project. Funding research projects has kept the United States at the top when it comes technology and medicine, furthermore our Department of Defense greatly benefits from these projects. By killing them, we are going to lose our place as the Worlds Number 1 Super Power. The Chinese Government is dumping tones of money into research, we are not going to beat them by killing ours.
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Problem is not all and I suspect very little of the “Research” is medical or defense based.
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I stand corrected!
Private funding accounts for a smaller but significant portion of university research funding. In the U.S., about 11% of university research funding comes from private sources, while the federal government provides around 82%. Additionally, private foundations contribute approximately 9% of academic research and development funding.
Private funding often supports industry-driven research, commercialization efforts, and intellectual property development.
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There are two problems.
First, their idea of “research” includes things like studying the digestive habits of goats fed a diet consisting entirely of monkey crap-fertilized grass in Nauru, the social skills of transgender mice in Kiribati and other equally ludicrous projects. Many of these schools are unwilling and/or unable to even account for how the money is spent.
The second issue is that these schools have become unnecessarily hostile environments for anyone who does not agree with their social and political ideologies, most recently permitting antisemitism, pro-terrorist organizations and other anti-American themes.
Grants aren’t a right, they are not guaranteed. Research is important and I am not dismissing that. However, if you want the money you need to behave appropriately and spend the money appropriately. You also need to document how that money is spent and what, if any, actual relevant research was conducted.
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I agree brother … but … projects like the Manhatten Project were done as congressionally funded programs with congressional oversight and annual reporting. Since the 1990’s when the national labs were restructured and much of these innovation projects started to be funded by specific congressional member mark-ups (i.e. what was referred to as “pork”) the programs became much smaller at that time and usually overseen by the Secretary of the Department that innovation would most likely support (like the Sec. of Defense, Health, etc). But the masses thought that pork was bad, after some congressional members were more astute than others about appropriating it, it became a political lynch pin and spun to the populous as disastrous (Thanks Sen. McCain and others). So it got killed and then proceeded to transition to lobbyist driven initiatives and housed within NGOs with little to no oversight, other than spend the money this year or you won’t get any next year. That is, no performance specifications or testing.
Sorry for the long wind, but I’ve lived this … and our nation has suffered from a lack of innovation since the 1990s.
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