If Universities and Colleges are increasingly dependent on billionaire donors

[malaise]

and state governments, can their curricula remain objective?
Your thoughts

[multigraincracker]

1. Those billionaires will want

A return on their investments. Just saying.

[malaise]

6. They do

and they fund a lot of research as well

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I don't think they ever were very objective

Everyone's growing an agenda and seeking expanded budgets for their department. Could be as simple as attract more students to this major, or have corporate strings.

Company towns just about ran company town universities. Public education has local ties. Even community colleges are skewed to the local labor markets, employers, and faculty who live and work there.

[malaise]

4. True but add RW racist, theocratic state governments

and it's way worse. See Florida

Adding this link

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218745118

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. Nope.

As stated, they will expect a return on their investment. No matter that it is not supposed to be seen as an investment, those leeches will expect it to be seen as such regardless of their public position. You want proper education that is beholden to no one, remove the money. Of course, that will never happen, so a solution is pretty impossible at the moment.

After all, one gets what one pays for. Even if there was no price mentioned.

[malaise]

5. And this is not just in the USA

[Voltaire2]

7. They've made it clear they want a blacklist era.