Mike G.
@mestizoqueso.bsky.social
🇲🇽🇺🇸 Historian, Prof, Dovahkiin, Sci-fi novel and strategy gaming enthusiast. My wife said I can join your gang as long as I am back home by dinner.
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Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
Yeah the only thing I can think of is that he’s just trying to prove that he can get them to do it.
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Yeah the only thing I can think of is that he’s just trying to prove that he can get them to do it.
Patel is lazy but loyal. It’s entirely plausible that Trump leaked this in the hopes that Patel gets his shit together and focus on what he was hired to do: settle Trump’s old scores.
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Patel is lazy but loyal. It’s entirely plausible that Trump leaked this in the hopes that Patel gets his shit together and focus on what he was hired to do: settle Trump’s old scores.
Kinda sucks that the only thing keeping us from sliding into a hybrid regime is pure, unadulterated stupidity, but at least it’s really funny.
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Kinda sucks that the only thing keeping us from sliding into a hybrid regime is pure, unadulterated stupidity, but at least it’s really funny.
TBH though: him moving from Malaysia to Dubai is news to me.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
TBH though: him moving from Malaysia to Dubai is news to me.