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Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social |
You see this at the University level constantly; they claim not to have money to fund programs that might actually help students but there’s always $100m for the absolute dumbest shit you’ve ever heard of and when it inevitably fails they’re like welp better close the classics department
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Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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We just spent $85 million on a new basketball arena but I have to ask friends to download Legislative Studies Quarterly for me because of library budget cuts.
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Coolbone Minoxidil
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This is also a classic at all levels of government so now we’re at the intersection of academia and government in the form of public education, must be exasperating to be an educator these days
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Curtis Wilde
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Custom painted football helmets multiple times/year for themed games comes to mind (though I’m sure there are larger wastes of money)
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Keith Edwards
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I worked at a university once where we received a $10 million endowment in the middle of a budget crunch, but it came with the condition that the school restart its football program, which had been shut down 10 years before when a student died.
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Julia Azari
@juliaazari.bsky.social
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millions on consultants. canceled a course-embedded peer tutoring program that produced great results for all invovled
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Professor Furious
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An academic friend of mine always bemoans the unquestioning support for any sports team expense contrasted with the trickle that's allocated to academics.
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Title TK
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Some of that is because some rich asshole died and specifically donated money for dumb shit but even then there’s lots of other kinds of dumb shit that some guy with an MBA thinks is good idea
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