The first effective polio vaccine was developed in 1952 by Jonas Salk and a team at the University of Pittsburgh
Maybe you could use Google. Try using keywords like “university” and “research”
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school or uni, public or private?
yep and rest of the time is flagged as research.
The less they teach the more money they get lol
Now its woke agenda that gets your funding
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UNO is a state university; that friend (political science) retired last year. Friend #2, whose doctorate is in religious studies, teaches at a STEM public high school. The third (political science) teaches at Northwestern State University. These are all found in Louisiana.
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thats whats wrong with American education
Harvard reports to NIH all expenditures for grants. 69% of funding goes towards overhead. Stanford is 71%. The average expenditures for all NIH grants are 12%.
We are 37,000,000,000,000.00 dollars in debt. You want to put this in context of how much that is? A million seconds is roughly 11.5 days, a billion seconds is approximately 31.7 years, a trillion seconds is 31,700 years. 37 T debt equates to 1,172,900 years in seconds. Only 53% of the 135,000,000 households in the US pay income tax. A trillion dollars debt equates to 13,976.00 per household. 37 trillion debt is 517,121.00 per household.
Trump is right to remove funding from these universities
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Overhead in NIH grants are things like the building, lights, water, support staff etc., without which no research could be done. The wise thing to do is limit the NIH allowance for overhead to that similar to the grants issued by private foundations such as the Gates Foundation.
If being in debt is such a major issue let the income tax reduction expire as intended when the law was passed in the first Trump administration. To make this expiration fair for the working folks keep their part of the Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017 and let the reduced tax on the high incomes expire as planned. Most of that act was a ruse anyway as the majority of the benefits for corporate interests and the wealthy came with no expiration. It’s like the ruse being pulled with the no tax on overtime or tips which they neglect to mention only lasts for 2 years and it too expires.
Extending the tax cuts will cost 2.4 trillion dollars which dwarfs any money paid for research.
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Fine. Limit the amount for overhead. Once that legislation passes and is signed into law, these institutions can file for the grants and if/when they meet the criteria, the grants can be awarded. Actual responsible government in action… I like it.
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The truth I always heard about degrees, back when I was in that business, was look at Switzerland, lowest level of tertiary education but about the highest GDP per capita
Maybe no woke degrees, saves lots of money
USA
https://www.collegeconsensus.com/rankings/most-unusual-university-degrees/
I always thought about a PHD and the subject would be:
“Has Wall Street benefited the USA”
Would just cover the last 100 years
1929 would be the start of a no decade…
Lots of things are purely business in the USA but are gov owned and funded in most of the world,
Education
Health
Ok. I am missing your point. Are you saying that government owned healthcare in the United States would be a positive? Like the USPS? Government is incapable of doing anything economically productive. The reason the United States has the best healthcare anywhere on the planet is because it is privately owned. Why don’t we talk about Health Insurance instead of healthcare? 66% of insurance costs are administrative. Why isn’t insurance sold across state lines? Health insurance is a racket. Health insurance is why healthcare is incredibly expensive. Reform the way we pay for medical and a lot of the issues will go away. While we’re at it, reign in Big Pharma. This is where healthcare and its availability are most restrictive. Considering the inability of government to do anything effectively, I never understood how people can push for federally run healthcare.
I grew up in MA. Probably the best public education in the country. Another lifetime ago I would be for it. Now? Not so much. Any argument that government be more involved in education is low hanging fruit for anyone to crucify an argument for this.
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The point is you pay more for education and massively more for healthcare than the rest the world.
That doesnt mean that there isnt some quality there but only for those that can afford it.
To quote Victor Davis Hanson, US top degrees, “you can be top of the class and get one or learn nothing but you still end up with same degree”
The world knows the average Amercian has a low level of education but USA got some of the sharpest minds on the planet and top uni’s
Wall street bankers rich, hows the homeless situation and welfare and the debt?
The rich poor divide is as big as the education divide.
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I suggest there are many contributing factors however, I think diversity plays more into this than anyone is willing to admit. Size is also a factor but China and India would disprove this argument. They are primarily homogeneous countries.
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Education in India is a huge con job, was involved there to see it all.
Very few if any Indian degrees recognised by foreign govs.
Dont know about China.
A bigger con job than in the US? We are told our entire lives if you want to be successful, you need to go to college. And colleges straddle many with insurmountable debt all the while flooding the country with freshly indoctrinated minds with useless degrees.
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The golden rule on india governs everything..
“Exploitation of its people”
No matter how smart you are you cant graduate without paying for your results…
( you cant get in without the first paper bag of cash)
There is lots more…
Its a massive money making system with very little outcome.
There’s an easy answer to this.
Make universities responsible for the collection of the debts incurred by their graduates. Make them responsible for loaning each student the funds for tuition, accommodation etc on the basis that the universities will be repaid by legislated deductions from the pay of the graduates.
In essence, the responsibility will then pass to the universities to adjust their output such that they produce degrees that add value to the graduate and a better guarantee that they will be repaid. In other words the university has a financial stake in the quality and earning capacity of their output.
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Please explain.