In the 2022 Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, journalist Tristan Ahtone and historian Robert Lee discussed their investigations of how land grant universities, including Cornell, financially benefited from Indigenous displacement.
essentially technology, energy, et cetera? how did government become so intrusive in the science process? and to do that, we have to know history. it goes back to none other than franklin d. roosevelt, who, at the end of world war ii, saw that the manhattan project was going to be successful, probably. and he wrote to the director of the office that ran the project and said, hey, we need to keep all these scientists working for the government. they ll do great things and everybody will have a greater life, and that produced a document called science, the endless frontier that laid the blueprint for the federal takeover of science. prior to world war ii, there was very, very little federal money in science except in the land grant schools, and scientific progress was perfectly fine. economic growth, we were the
government to direct essentially technology, energy, et cetera? how did government become so intrusive in the science process? and to do that, we have to know history. it goes back to none other than franklin d. roosevelt, who, at the end of world war ii, saw that the manhattan project was going to be successful, probably. and he wrote to the director of the office that ran the project and said, hey, we need to keep all these scientists working for the government. they ll do great things and everybody will have a greater life, and that produced a document called science, the endless frontier that laid the blueprint for the federal takeover of science. prior to world war ii, there was very, very little federal money in science except in the land grant schools, and scientific progress was perfectly fine. economic growth, we were the
that s quite another question. the military has mixed feelings about whether they want to go back to harvard, columbia, the ivy league schools. it s expensive. rotc programs. it s whether they get enough bang for their buck. do they get enough kids who sign up at the elite institutions to go into a commission program of some kind? or are they better off working at the land grant schools where they re going to get generally a greater response to it? so that s an issue. now, the ivy league and elite institutions are beginning to say, we would welcome them back. we want to open that conversation again because of the repeal of don t ask don t tell but you may find the military saying, you know, i m not sure we need to go there because, frankly, it s not a