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Re:Stanford gets $1.1B for new climate school from John Doerr by scythe on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @12:55PM (#31262988)
In order to have an economy of scale, first you need scale. But Stanford does not stand out in terms of the size of its faculty or enrollment, certainly not to the degree it does in terms of money. In fact, Stanford has fewer tenured faculty members (832) than UC Davis (1,126):

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/stanford-university/...

https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-califo...

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Re:Stanford gets $1.1B for new climate school from John Doerr by pmyteh on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @01:30PM (#31263430)
There are diseconomies of scale too. My experience is mostly of UK higher education, but my feeling is that most universities are a bit too large for their governing structures, and are poorly run as a result.
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