Editing Bayh-Dole Act (1980) (section)

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|content=How about reaffirming the unsayable:

A) Research Universities are supposed to be dedicated to scholarship and discovery above all else. Not teaching. Not politics. Not incubating business spinoffs.

B) They are suppose to be exclusive. Not inclusive.

C) The professors are supposed to lead the university. Not the staff. Not the administrators. 

D) [[The Precariat|Academics are not to be made precarious.]] 

E) Even private elite universities are not really private. They are government funded to do the work that the market cannot.

F) The USG is in breach of the historical commitment to support blue sky science in US Universities.

G) Graduate students are workers disguised as students. Foreign students are a foreign workforce. 

H) [[Peer Review|Peer review]] is astonishingly recent and doesn’t work. 

I) There is a quasi military function to research universities. They are part of National Security. Patriotism matters.

J) Some fields do not deserve to be together on a level field. Biology and gender studies for example. 

K) Some fields *may* now be too dangerous to be studied openly.  Parts of physics, number theory and 
Machine learning leap to mind. This must be studied. 

L) The AAU, [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|NSF]], [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|NAS]] etc. have all conspired against the welfare of American scientists and their families. Scientists need to be in the rooms where their fates are determined. 

M) The difference between a research university and a college takes place almost exclusively within three groups of people: Professors, Graduate Students, and PostDocs/Researchers/Visitors. It often takes place in the afternoons. In seminars. In Labs. Etc. If you aren’t part of that world you aren’t part of the University. You are working or studying in BigEd but not involved with the university itself.

N) The great man/woman theory is basically correct in academics. Individual academicians change the world. 

O) The [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield amendment]], [[Bayh-Dole Act (1980)|Dole-Bayh]], [[Eilberg Amendment (1976)|Eilberg]], [[IMMACT90]] etc laws need to be undone. The damage has been incalculable.
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|content=Full page ad in today’s WSJ taken out by leaders at @VanderbiltU and @WashU:

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|content=I find myself in agreement with @realchrisrufo on this point.

I'll fill a bit in as well that doesn't seem to be well known.

Our private research universities are not actually purely private. They are designed to be both a cryptic soft extension of the state (e.g. national security, priming the prosperity pipeline with blue sky research, truth adjudication, etc.), which is also oppositely intended as an independent check on the state and state power in times of abuse as well. This tacit and quiet knowledge, which used to be held at the AAU and the relevant professors, has been mostly lost.

So 'overhead' or 'indirect costs' is not actually overhead at all. It is supposed to be cryptic state support based on research merit to avoid political pressure to fund 3rd tier universities at the same level as Princeton. So the whole system was designed back in the [[Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)|Vannevar Bush era]] but without leaving the esoteric knowledge with modern academicians. 

It's a disaster. It was a quiet game which worked brilliantly to serve the nation and its population until lunatics started to get a foothold in the research universities.

This is why when you audit this stuff, you see waste. It wasn't ever intended to be what it appears to be: this was the USG paying to have a totally ELITE and EXCLUSIVE quasi-private, quasi-public resource. Think Manhattan project. Think The Jasons. Think winning.

And, despite my deep dislike of how @realchrisrufo has acted towards me, his point is spot on. If the elite U.S. universities are so confused as to think that they are truly 100% private and that they should be allowed to destroy their role of ELITE service to the nation which built them up with federal dollars, that is a moment to remind them of the [[Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)|"Endless Frontier"]] agreement. 

First the USG welched on the agreement with the [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield Ammendment]] and [[Bayh-Dole Act (1980)|Dole Bayh]] and then [[IMMACT90]]. Then the universities welched with DEI. 

BOTH parties need to get back to the quiet agreement, or the whole thing will just fall apart. And the US research achipeligo is a *MAJOR* part of american greatness which we seem to be about to destroy because we can't figure out how to do this.

[And for those of you who seem to believe that quiet and tacit agreements are always bad, so that the Manhattan Project should have been academic and totally open because 'Sunlight is always the best disinfectant!!', I highly encourage you to use the comment section to complain again about elitism, gatekeeping, Fauci, experts, science, government and credentials. I get it. You can't stop to listen...or think. I totally get you. Looking forward to your vitriol. Just make sure to remind me repeatedly that markets are always right, all tax is theft, DEI is poison, and that Trump and Elon know exactly what they are doing at all times.]
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|content=The Ivy League universities are in a bind: they want to collect billions in federal funds, while openly violating federal civil rights law. The president should drop the hammer—no DEI, or no federal dollars.
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