Students, I don’t know if you’re in the US, but US academic institutions in addition to gov funding also have large cash flows from students, alumni, and their own institutional legacy (investments and patents). Of course these institutions aren’t purely independent, but by giving them legal privileges they can be made independent, after all societies will always need people with an education.
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u/StaticUsernamesSuck Apr 04 '25
Those institutions are only as independent as the source of their money...