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0 pointsaprilthird20215mo ago0 comments

Anecdotally I have heard similar things from top tier institutions in the US as well. They are all in recession mode basically and actively cutting classes, staff, and lecturers.

This all started when the govt began withholding federal funding in an attempt to clamp down on campus protests

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bonsai_spool5mo ago

> This all started when the govt began withholding federal funding in an attempt to clamp down on campus protests

This is definitely not why the 'govt began withholding federal funding'

aprilthird2021OP5mo ago

I guess it's the excuse, maybe not the real reason. But the cases with UCLA and Harvard is when this all changed

bonsai_spool5mo ago

> I guess it's the excuse, maybe not the real reason. But the cases with UCLA and Harvard is when this all changed

That is not true. Those happened in 2024.

The extortionate demands are happening in 2025.

The campus protests are clearly a pretext.

yongjik5mo ago

Yeah it's more like "clamp down on higher education."

I've said it multiple times, Trump and his folks see higher education as the enemy, the anti-Christ that corrupts their vision of America. Protests and admin bureaucracy (give me a fucking break) are just convenient excuses.

kadushka5mo ago

I hope they're cutting their bloated administration departments before cutting classes and lecturers, but I'm not holding my breath.

awesome_dude5mo ago

> bloated administration departments

Can you demonstrate how those administration departments were bloated (in any way)

edit: re-added "administration" which I had, for some reason, neglected to add, thinking that it was obvious that that was what I was talking about.

kadushka5mo ago

Yes, this fact is well-known and has been widely discussed. The first two google search results provide the stats:

https://students.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-review/features/death-b...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulweinstein/2023/08/28/admini...

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layman515mo ago

I don't have any serious evidence, but the idea of "bloated administration" has been a meme for many years and I remember this humorous article describing it as a new chemical element floating around since around a decade ago: https://meyerweb.com/other/humor/administratium.html

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aprilthird2021OP5mo ago

They are cutting both from what I hear from lecturers in top schools

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bonsai_spool5mo ago

> This all started when the govt began withholding federal funding in an attempt to clamp down on campus protests

This is definitely not why the 'govt began withholding federal funding'

aprilthird2021OP5mo ago

I guess it's the excuse, maybe not the real reason. But the cases with UCLA and Harvard is when this all changed

bonsai_spool5mo ago

> I guess it's the excuse, maybe not the real reason. But the cases with UCLA and Harvard is when this all changed

That is not true. Those happened in 2024.

The extortionate demands are happening in 2025.

The campus protests are clearly a pretext.

yongjik5mo ago

Yeah it's more like "clamp down on higher education."

kadushka5mo ago

I hope they're cutting their bloated administration departments before cutting classes and lecturers, but I'm not holding my breath.

awesome_dude5mo ago

> bloated administration departments

Can you demonstrate how those administration departments were bloated (in any way)

edit: re-added "administration" which I had, for some reason, neglected to add, thinking that it was obvious that that was what I was talking about.

kadushka5mo ago

Yes, this fact is well-known and has been widely discussed. The first two google search results provide the stats:

https://students.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-review/features/death-b...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulweinstein/2023/08/28/admini...

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layman515mo ago

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aprilthird2021OP5mo ago

They are cutting both from what I hear from lecturers in top schools

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