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Dean Clancy
Personal blog · deanclancy.compoliticsculture
Dean Clancy's personal blog at deanclancy.com covers politics and culture. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this site for a list of colleges that refuse federal funding, in discussions of college tuition growth and admissions bribery. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /a-list-of-colleges-that-dont-take-federal-money/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-21
What Hacker News says?
Not all of them do! A few, most famously Hillsdale, refuse government money in order to protect their civil liberties (including as race-agnostic admission procedures, for better or for worse). https://deanclancy.com/a-list-of-colleges-that-dont-take-fed...
Comment linking /a-list-of-colleges-that-dont-take-federal-money/
on “FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery scheme”I wonder if there's any data comparing tuition growth rates at "normal" schools and those schools that don't accept federal funding of any kind (including federal loans). There's not many of them, and they're usually small, Christian-oriented schools[0], but I'd be curious to see if there's actually any obvious difference in growth rate. A quick google search didn't come up with any data. [0] https://deanclancy.com/…
Comment linking /a-list-of-colleges-that-dont-take-federal-money/
on “Tuition costs have risen 710% since 1983 (1200% since 1980). Inflation: 194%”Anti-discrimination laws regarding protected classes aren't applicable in general to private organizations. I believe that they generally are related to employment and public accommodations and to educational institutions that receive public funds. There are probably some other situations also. So Harvard Book Store can't discriminate based on protected classes (public accommodation) and Harvard can't discriminate w…
Comment linking /a-list-of-colleges-that-dont-take-federal-money/
on “Harvard's dirty secrets on display”