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Re:Harvard’s new computer science teacher is a chatbot by vasco on Sunday June 25, 2023 @05:03AM (#36466235)
Feom what I understand of these universities with endowments they use money to hire administrative staff and to "last forever". Teaching staff is secondary to those.
Re:Harvard’s new computer science teacher is a chatbot by chefandy on Monday June 26, 2023 @08:16PM (#36487558)
Yes. They lay off scores of staff in nearly every economic downturn. There's a whole lot of 'blah blah blah' about why they can't use the endowment to avoid screwing people who've given decades of their professional life to Harvard, but I think it mostly comes down to their wanting a big shiny endowment balance long after everyone on earth right now has died.