alt Hacker News> they were unable to follow through on hiring many of the grad students they had planned to hire
Most of the "research" done by graduate students and even tenured faculty as a whole is laughable at best. For every lab that produces groundbreaking output, there are countless humanities graduate programs that do nothing but produce and spread left-wing propaganda.
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gs17 • today at 6:23 PM
Then it should have been easy to cut only those grants instead of the "real science", right?
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ambicapter • today at 7:00 PM
"R&D is a cost center" what an insightful take.
wredcoll • today at 6:37 PM
What a depressing view of the world.
As a side-gig I taught within the doctoral education program for several high-ranking universities in Europe for about a decade (over a thousand PhD candidates). My impression is that nearly all funding for PhD projects flows to fields like medicine, physics, chemistry, computer science, electronics, and so on. Spending on humanities is absolutely minuscule compared to those.