he who pays, owns. If a private fund ‘grants’ a donation to a university, it’s naive to think there are no strings attached.

But, why would any university put itself in a position of dependence this easily?

Have universities always been a business in the United States?

Am I forgetting something?

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    11 months ago

    I think these are very good questions that are difficult to adequately address here, because I think they deserve book-length, historical materialist answers.

    Edit: Anyone who thinks grants are innocuous didn’t learn the lessons from Real Genius.