A Purdue University professor has pleaded guilty to defrauding the National Science Foundation out of $1.3 million (https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13887). He used taxpayers’ money, earmarked for “research,” to hire his minor children to no-show jobs… and buy a house. He had his wife apply for the grants in her own name, then launder the money back to him.
Sweet, huh?
Meanwhile, another prof at Drexel U. has paid back more than $50,000 in research grants that he spent on visits to strip clubs and sports bars. (“Well, it’s a kind of research, isn’t it?”) Drexel has agreed to pay back some $190,000 to avoid further investigation by the federal Dept. of Justice.
It was taxpayer money that was supposed to go for “research.” That means you and I had to work to earn it so the government could take it.
In 2017 Drexel received some $70 million in federal research funding.
“Higher education”–it’s slowly killing us.