Not every dependency is an addiction you absolute fucking monster. But go ahead, try to claim otherwise. Make the point children are "addicted" to their parents, that adults are "addicted" to their jobs, the people everywhere are "addicted" to food, water, air. Just try motherfucker. I dare you.
It's different now; they were born needing to depend on their parents. Universities over the last 30 or so years came to depend on federal research grants. That wasn't always the case. The same is true to a much larger degree for foreign students who need to receive visas. 1/2
I'm not even saying it's wrong. I like that American universities educate the world's elite. I think it's valuable in soft power terms, but it would be naive to deny that it makes universities vulnerable to Trump blackmailing them.
Given that good, healthy addictions is a contradiction in terms, you are absolutely saying it's wrong. If you meant otherwise and don't want to be misinterpreted, try speaking the language properly. Specific words have specific meanings. Learn them, know them love them, use them. Class dismissed.
And to be clear, you're getting the third degree because you're being linguistically sloppy is a way that shares the victim with a non-existent failure, blaming them - even in part - for an unprecedented act of raw extortion. Universities have fucked up in other ways, but this isn't one of them.
Well, if you build your entire financial viability on the assumption that the flow of student visas will never be even just reduced, I would call that, at the very least, a questionable business practice.
There is no more reason to assume that visas will be cancelled than there is to think birthright citizenship is on shaky ground. It's not an unreasonable premise at all. It certainly hasn't been over the entire human lifetime in which these practices have been the norm. Stop blaming the victim.
No, because birthright citizenship, I think, is safe with even this Supreme Court, but the Secretary of State has enormous leeway in deciding the number of foreign visas that are issued. That's not even in question; it's a fact. And, well, he does serve at the pleasure of the President.
The dependency is real; universities have become so reliant on foreign students that if those students aren't able to attend, their budgets go into the red quickly.
Even institutions like Harvard would have to drastically tap into their endowment, and for private and state schools with smaller endowments, it would mean drastic cuts across the board.
Bro: the state should fund research. It's unequivocally good. There is only a problem because a fascist is using it for leverage. This wouldn't be better if it was coming from private industries because they have outcomes they want and specific motives. Also they've caved to Trump hard.
That wasn’t always the case because we did not always have the massive research ecosystem that the NIH and NSF created. The “federal research funding addiction” is the reason childhood leukemia survival rates are 85% now instead of 45% as they were in the 70s.
And I'm all for I don't support any cuts to federal research spending I'm just stating that it made research universities vulnerable to pressure from the federal government.
Everyone is vulnerable to a dictator who has achieved a de facto coup. I refuse to concede that publicly funded research “made itself vulnerable” by accepting the funds. A fascist has ended the prior constitutional order, that is not a position publicly funded researchers put themselves in.