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41 votes
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Historian Avi Shlaim: ‘I remain hopeful Israel will start to act rationally’
2 votes -
EU leaders approve €50 billion deal for Ukraine after Viktor Orbán lifts his veto
21 votes -
How a World Food Program food aid revamp has gone wrong for refugees in Uganda
5 votes -
United Arab Emirates promises to build desalination plants for Gaza as part of humanitarian commitment 'Gallant Knight 3'
8 votes -
Mitch McConnell backs US President Joe Biden’s $106bn aid request for Israel and Ukraine
34 votes -
Egypt-Gaza border crossing opens, letting desperately needed aid flow to Palestinians
21 votes -
How to help humanitarian efforts in Israel and Gaza
11 votes -
‘If we don’t get the aid, we will lose the war’: Zelenskyy asks Congress to help Ukraine
33 votes -
Should airships make a comeback?
25 votes -
Niger has suspended the export of gold and uranium to France this Sunday with immediate effect
36 votes -
Displaced Congolese on the M23 conflict and the need for peace
6 votes -
Aid is the next battleground between China and the West
8 votes -
The great grift: How billions in COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted
21 votes -
Norway's fossil fuel bonanza stokes impassioned debate about how best to spend its 'war profits'
4 votes -
Battle for the nation's soul – Norway faces debate about gas and oil wealth
8 votes -
Norwegian Jehovah's Witnesses no longer registered as religious community – due to exclusionary practices when someone breaks religious rules
7 votes -
Mormonism and the rise and fall of mutual aid
3 votes -
How war in Ukraine is making people hungry in the Middle East
5 votes -
"This is a crazy, unjust attack": Pink Floyd re-form to produce single in support of Ukraine
12 votes -
Two of Germany's largest shipbuilders declare bankruptcy
6 votes -
Thoughts on Dean Spade's essay "Solidarity Not Charity - Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival"
5 votes -
How “MobileAid” and machine learning-based targeting can complement existing social protection programs
4 votes -
If the US Federal Government was to stop issuing student financial aid to private colleges and universities, what would be the impact to those institutions?
Posted this over on r/highereducation, thought it might be interesting here. I've been thinking a lot about this lately, especially in the context of "free college" proposals. Subsidizing private...
Posted this over on r/highereducation, thought it might be interesting here.
I've been thinking a lot about this lately, especially in the context of "free college" proposals. Subsidizing private colleges and universities would be a political non-starter. I'm assuming the government would have a "teach-out" style plan to transition schools off federal dollars. Regardless, the impact would be massive. I've briefly glanced at financial aid and revenue data for one R1 school, and it seems federal money makes up a significant (20-30%) portion of annual operating revenue. While that doesn't seem like much at first, I suspect enrollment would drop significantly at many schools if there was the alternative of going to a public university for free. Several thoughts come to mind:
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What percent of schools would close or merge?
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What would be some of the most surprising schools to close?
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How quickly would schools close? Would they immediately shutter, close at the end of the transition period, or struggle on for a few years?
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What is the breakdown of institution types (R1/2 vs SLAC vs engineering schools)?
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What would be the impact on religiously-affiliated colleges, especially Catholic schools (there's already many little-known ones in the middle of nowhere)?
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Of the schools that survive, what sort of strategies would they employ to remain solvent (lean heavier on foreign students, reduce admissions standards, have mandatory work-study programs to reduce administrative costs, create alumni contracts akin to tithing, invest more in the financial sector/Wall Street)?
Edit: Whoops, I thought I posted this in ~misc. Oh well.
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FC Barcelona and Real Madrid will be forced to pay back illegal state aid
10 votes -
How a $17 billion bailout fund intended for Boeing ended up in very different hands
4 votes -
Norwegian Air said it is facing a “very uncertain future” after the government of Norway refused to grant further financial assistance to the airline
6 votes -
How Syria's disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets
6 votes -
Just give poor people money
22 votes -
Sensory overload and annals of lying
3 votes -
Air France 'must cut domestic flights' in the name of fighting climate change to get state loan
16 votes -
Aid in reverse: How poor countries give disproportionately more to rich countries
6 votes -
Greenland wary of US plans for aid projects in its territory – politicians say expected announcement of $12m must not have conditions attached
6 votes -
Mike Pence task force freezes foreign coronavirus aid amid US backlash
6 votes -
EU state aid regulators clear Danish financial support for a rail-road link between Denmark and Germany
4 votes -
Italy’s foreign minister hails Chinese coronavirus aid
9 votes -
Germany to send face masks to Italy to help deal with coronavirus
9 votes -
Foreign aid corruption paper causes storm at World Bank
11 votes -
The economics of poverty
5 votes -
Bahamas: Hurricane hell
2 votes -
Under shroud of secrecy, US weapons arrive in Yemen despite Congressional outrage
3 votes -
France believes state aid to budget carrier Norwegian Air was partly to blame for the bankruptcy of Paris-based XL Airways and will seek EU intervention
3 votes -
Unusual plan for disaster relief: just give survivors money
14 votes -
College financial-aid loophole: Wealthy US parents transfer guardianship of their teens to get aid
15 votes -
Swedish Committee for Afghanistan – Afghan clinics reopening days after Taliban forced closure
4 votes -
Rising flood levels threaten Mozambique disaster relief effort
5 votes -
Venezuela aid: Genuine help or Trojan horse?
7 votes -
Venezuelan soldiers set fire to aid convoys at Colombia border as two protesters killed in clashes
6 votes -
Venezuela crisis: Maduro to close border with Brazil
7 votes -
Why humanitarians are worried about Palantir’s new partnership with the UN
8 votes