Trump will tax university endowments and use billions to fund a free online university…..

Nice. I’m getting another degree.

Exactly what we need, more kids going to college and getting largely worthless degrees when we should be pushing more and more younger people into trade schools.

A&M and Vandy may be screwed here.

My healthcare plan was going to establish a national med school, 6yr curriculum, 100k students, adding about 15k new, additional doctors per year. We need this. Too much knowledge out there for the 4yr med school model. Guy in that tweet is 100% correct about starting a new med school. Sorely needed.

I like the idea of taxing the endowments, if it goes after the largest endowments and not all of them. The other thing Trump could do is start re-scoring grant applications, dividing scores by a school's endowment amount. This would pretty much take Harvard and similar schools out of the mix entirely. Let's see if they really have a commitment to public service and go ahead and use their endowment to fund research activity.

Hopefully this will post ok, it's a list of the 20 largest endowments. 6 days ago from US News. usnews
20 Colleges With the Biggest Endowments

School

U.S. News Rank (university ranking, not endowment ranking)

End of Fiscal Year Endowment 2023

Harvard University (MA)

3
$50,748,594,000

Yale University (CT)

5
$40,746,867,000

Stanford University (CA)

4
$36,494,893,000

Princeton University (NJ)

1
$33,380,863,000

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2
$23,453,446,000

University of Pennsylvania

10
$20,962,941,000

Texas A&M University

51 (tie)
$17,219,500,588

University of Michigan—Ann Arbor

21 (tie)
$17,095,088,000

University of Notre Dame (IN)

18 (tie)
$16,960,542,000

Columbia University (NY)

13 (tie)
$13,642,667,000

Duke University (NC)

6 (tie)
$11,602,230,000

Washington University in St. Louis (MO)

21 (tie)
$11,489,314,000

Emory University (GA)

24 (tie)
$11,358,435,000

Northwestern University (IL)

6 (tie)
$10,553,989,000

Johns Hopkins University (MD)

6 (tie)
$10,538,865,000

University of Virginia

24 (tie)
$9,703,267,510

Vanderbilt University (TN)

18 (tie)
$9,684,196,096

Cornell University (NY)

11 (tie)
$9,553,279,351

University of Chicago (IL)

11 (tie)
$8,552,674,498

Dartmouth College (NH)

15 (tie)
$7,930,125,009

Hmmm…so we get rid of the the Department of Education only to create a new government bureaucracy that will be funded by taxing someone else so we can have “free college education.”

Wonderful

I’ve long believed that access to Knowledge should be free, at least to the degree that such is practical. I do realize that the R&D which is the source of much Knowledge costs $, but it would seem that before anything, a society should subsidize the acquisition and dispensation of knowledge. Albeit my Economic knowledge is limited.

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Sounds like Socialism to me.

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Yep. During a time we're supposed to be getting the Fed out of the education business.

More taxes. More government. Yay.

As with any Trump proposal, is it legal?

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A&M

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You misspelled University of China at College Station.

Whether a university degree or trade school I'm definitely for this. Trump never ceases to surprise me with these cutting edge ideas that only those with TDS would fight.

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