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> It is possible to be independent while also accepting grants from the USG. There's no contradiction there. The point of independence is that the Institute get
by thaumasiotes 1y ago
> It is possible to be independent while also accepting grants from the USG. There's no contradiction there. The point of independence is that the Institute gets to determine how it runs its affairs.
That hasn't been true for many decades. Accepting grants means being subject to a host of legal requirements tied to various different pieces of civil rights legislation.
- runako 1y agoThe thing about that legislation is that since it is the law of the land, it applies whether or not an institution receives a grant.
- thaumasiotes 1y agoNot at all. It applies only to institutions that are funded by the government. Receiving grants has been characterized as accepting government funding, which is strange on the fundamentals - those grants notionally represent the government paying for work it wants done. Also characterized as accepting government funding is admitting students who get student loans from the government. This goes well beyond "strange on the fundamentals" - that money is notionally given to the student, not to the school.