Comment by ceejayoz
6 days ago
The tax revenues from the $1.3T company that arose from their online yearbook?
Lawyers? Doctors? Medical research? Thousands of highly educated graduates annually? 161 Nobel prize winners?
6 days ago
The tax revenues from the $1.3T company that arose from their online yearbook?
Lawyers? Doctors? Medical research? Thousands of highly educated graduates annually? 161 Nobel prize winners?
Its not clear what the effect no Harvard would be on those metrics. And all of those are necessarily in Harvards best interest to maintain too.
This is compared to a direct payment to sustain operations which the government is saying they may not be in favor of. But its not like Harvard would say ”it may not be in our interest to produce successful people anymore.”
Harvard isn't the first to be targeted, nor will they be the last.
The American university system is undeniably impactful on American success over the last century. It would be tough to put any sort of exact number on it, but we can absolutely say "a shitload".
>The American university system is undeniably impactful on American success over the last century.
Merit based reforms would only help. What kind of DEI programs did Harvard have 100 years ago?
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Don't confuse the credential factory with the skills and quality of the underlying students. Harvard is little more than a toll booth for students who were already smart and over-achieving. It's not like the teaching is extraordinary.
Harvard does substantially more than teach undergrads.
> Lawyers? Doctors? Medical research? Thousands of highly educated graduates annually?
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