Noted. But still seems unbelievably high, if I'm being honest. 400m, to one single institution? I'm a person who definitely wants taxes to pay for things, especially enrichment programs and education. But we can't look at that number and pretend there was no waste. This is why academia is full of aimless departments with few material accomplishments. They've been receiving blank checks of funny money for so long that they stopped caring about actually delivering a meaningful experience to their students.
400 million -- typo!
Noted. But still seems unbelievably high, if I'm being honest. 400m, to one single institution? I'm a person who definitely wants taxes to pay for things, especially enrichment programs and education. But we can't look at that number and pretend there was no waste. This is why academia is full of aimless departments with few material accomplishments. They've been receiving blank checks of funny money for so long that they stopped caring about actually delivering a meaningful experience to their students.