Feds Fund Academic Bias

Feds Fund Academic Bias

For years I have been telling congressional staffers that they have it within their power to bring balance to institutions of higher learning. All they have to do is cut federal spending on education.

Yet and still, as a great man said, “There are simple answers, just not easy ones.” Don’t scratch your heads over the source of that quote: It was Ronald Reagan.

Now, from inside the academy, comes affirmation. “We have reached the point where for many institutions of higher education, the amount of revenue that they derive from either of their two traditional source-tuition and either state funds (public institutions) or endowments (private institutions)-is eclipsed by the funds secured from the feds through government grants and research contracts,” Ron Lipsman writes in The American Thinker. “Much of this has been accomplished without any special enabling legislation. It takes place within the budgets of various federal departments and agencies-e.g., Defense, Commerce, Interior, NASA, NSF, and others.”

“But with or without specific legislation, like all the massive intrusions by the federal government into areas of our society and economy, it has been carried out lawfully, with the public’s support.” Lipsman is a math professor at the University of Maryland at College Park…

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