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That comment is very misleading. The subsidy being talked about is not research subsidies, which pay lab costs and grad student stipends, not professors. Instea
by yuliyp 13y ago
That comment is very misleading. The subsidy being talked about is not research subsidies, which pay lab costs and grad student stipends, not professors. Instead it's about tuition assistance in the form of student loans and grants. That's the subsidy that actually pays humanities profs.
- slurry 13y agoThat comment is very misleading. No it's not. I was responding directly to this: A better question may be is it worth it for the government to subsidize research for humanities professors? The article itself didn't have anything directly to say about the humanities as a field of study.
- gte910h 13y agoThe govt loans are subsidizing them via tuition. If loans were given out on a ability to repay standard, instead of govt guaranteed, humanities would get fewer loans, therefore, govt loans are subsidizing humanities faculty
- slurry 13y agoThere was a contention that the government subsidizes humanities research. I demonstrated that, barring the rounding error that is the NEH, it does not. You reply that yes in fact the government does subsidize humanities teaching. I don't even know what to do with that. Anyway, if loans were given out on an ability to repay standard then the biggest losses would be to health professions, criminal justice, early childhood education and other non-prestige career degrees toward which low income students tend to gravitate.