notes on redistributed federal taxpayer funds (& debt) and the “grant industrial complex”

Kimberly Wethal:

The School of Education won’t be accepting applications for a third cohort in 2026, Wilkerson said.

“We were essentially being incentivized by the federal government to try these partnerships out, and the idea that if you build a partnership and you have some investment on the front end, that it might be able to be sustained in the future,” Wilkerson said. “The part that feels wasteful to me is we’re working, we’re getting it up and going, and then to have the support withdrawn feels just unnecessarily disruptive.”

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Redistributed federal taxpayer funds and University Governance


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