>Clearly, some kind of funding is required to put on courses, organize seminar series, and things like that.
Other countries manage to do all of those with a fraction of the cost of US universities. Courses should be paid for by undergraduate students tuition, grad students attend only a handful of courses throughout their studies. Universities already take “overhead” money from the NIH or NSF grants, the “tuition waiver” is just another way to get even more “overhead” than they would otherwise be able to justify.
The real problem here is the cost disease, the fact that US schools spend much, much more than schools in other countries, for no apparent reason.
Other countries manage to do all of those with a fraction of the cost of US universities. Courses should be paid for by undergraduate students tuition, grad students attend only a handful of courses throughout their studies. Universities already take “overhead” money from the NIH or NSF grants, the “tuition waiver” is just another way to get even more “overhead” than they would otherwise be able to justify.
The real problem here is the cost disease, the fact that US schools spend much, much more than schools in other countries, for no apparent reason.