STEM girl realizes that LACS exist, now how to find the right one?

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@tk21769 wrote:

JHU spends about $2 billion dollars per year on research. Duke spends over $1B (as several state universities do). The LACs with the highest activity, like Wesleyan, spend about $10M (or less) per year on research. So the scale at least is different (in keeping with the different institutional missions).

Different scale, mission. Also different exposure to federal whims. Last Fall, when the president of Wesleyan wrestled with Tucker Carlson during a FoxNews debate on the issue of “sanctuary colleges”, Carlson playfully dangled the possibility of losing “200 million dollars” in federal funding over the stance Wesleyan had taken. His jaw visibly dropped when President Roth corrected him by saying, “No. It would be closer to 20 million.” Carlson had grabbed the incorrect number from an article in the student-run newspaper.