Re: are there any public universities left in the states?

On 17 ago, 17:07, John <n...@droffats.ten> wrote:
> sirbl...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > or are they all funded by capitalism?
>
> They are funded by state taxes derived from taxable income. Some funds
> come from government grants which are also tax supported. Some funds
> come from private industry.
>
> > would that explain the disappearance of the humanities?
>
> The trend in State universities is to move toward a business model in
> which various veiled strategies (eg: bullshit marketing) are used to
> rationalize expenditures. Sometimes, not always, they attempt to use
> what they call Outcome Based allocations of funds.
>
> Humanities do not evince cost-effectiveness when one uses business
> metrics (which in turn are short-term measures, not long-term), so the
> trend is to merge Humanities into fields which can show (apparent)
> effectiveness.
>
> This comes under the guise of cross-disciplinary efforts. It is a way to
> virtually replace the leadership of Humanities with that of a discipline
> more susceptible to hard, short-term metrics.
>
> By now you might guess that I live in that paradigm called the State
> university.

i loved your answer, it was as good as flasherly's and that's saying a
lot.
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