Quote Originally Posted by ElCid View Post
Huh? And how much federal funding do you believe The Citadel gets? It's a state school. And tuition has gotten ridiculous over the last couple decades. And while it is a Senior Military College, its operations are not necessarily dependent on federal programs. I love for the feds to write big checks to subsidize its operations.
Close to $40 million, per annum...not inclusive of federal scholarship aid which, without question, is Federal Aid to The Citadel. The good news is that, much like Albany, most of the money is for cybersecurity and homeland security "research". Not on the chopping block right now. The $40 million translates to around 22% of The Citadel's total appropriated budget, per annum.

People getting all excited for the DOE getting blown up completely (and it definitely, without question, needed to be revamped to get rid of some absolutely poor spending), do not realize that Congressional appropriation for university funding is generally funneled through the DOE as the distribution body, along with NIH. The DOGE hits to NIH are having similar impacts to Universities.

I will post later about the realities of the "threats" of ending funding...it is being misconstrued by Matt and others.