alt Hacker News> purpose of the university is ostensibly to provide an education
One of the purposes. They’re also centres for learning and research and repositories of knowledge.
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tdeck • last Wednesday at 9:54 PM
If they were spending the money on those things, this might be an argument. But they're not spending it; they're hoarding it.
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I disagree. I think teaching is the sole purpose of a university. Research is ancillary to that, and if an organization only did research but didn't teach I would not say they get to call themselves a university any more.