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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So dumb.  “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue”’

The government isn’t saying that.  No one is forcing Harvard to do anything.  They have a billion dollar endowment and can do as they please.

What they can’t do is foster an educational atmosphere of harassment and expect the taxpayers to finance it.[/quote]

The govt-university partnership for research was put in place post WW2 and is the basis of the innovation ecosystem of the United States.  It has been extremely productive for America. If the govt wants to break that partnership by imposing limitations on the college, they are free to do so.

If the country doesn’t want premier research universities, we won’t have premier research universities.  No university can afford to fund this on their own for the good of the United States.

What we won’t have is premier research universities [b]where free expression is stifled[/b]. Those two things don’t work together.  If you want creativity and big ideas out of people, you can’t tell them what to think like the govt is trying to do right now.  [/quote]
Free expression at Harvard is at 0% 
They shouldn't get any taxpayer money with their multi-billion dollar endowment. [/quote]

Stop the false narrative that the government is just "giving" money to universities.

The government wants services/research from private and public universities that the government cannot do itself.  The government puts out a request for proposals to the general population to get those services. Various university professors with expertise and resources to do the work submit proposals. The government reviews them all and picks the one they deem best to give them the services they need.

This helps the university because it attracts student who are interested in that area of research, and it helps fund the process of furthering that area of research deemed important by Congress. And it helps our country because the government is getting the results it asked for, in addition to attracting and developing the best and brightest in academia and research, which is a huge asset to the country.  Destroying this process is very bad for the United States.[/quote]

Yes, he government is the paying customer.  It's not obligated to pay Harvard.  [/quote]

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