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12. Excellent point. I've written before about how

Sat Dec 7, 2024, 10:06 AM

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University of Wisconsin-Madison was devastated over several years of researchers being constantly under attack etc. After awhile they rightly took their knowledge and expertise and foundation grants elsewhere. The ranking of the university went into a long deep slide not only from a research standpoint but also because the best professors left also. So the value of a degree from UW when seeking a job went way down the scale for a very long time and is even now only slowly recovering.

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