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Owen-Smith describes transactional relationship between government and universities

April 16, 2025 Associated Press

“The government gets to basically treat a generally decentralized national system of universities as a pay-as-you-go resource to get problems solved,” the Ford School's Jason Owen-Smith told the Associated Press. Owen-Smith discussed ways that the government has become more involved in university funding through research gains with the Associated Press.