Stanford's Manning: bureaucracy has made universities worse for research
stanfordnlp · x · 2026-09-19
Stanford NLP reshares Chris Potts' recommendation of a recent interview with Christopher Manning. Manning argues that over the past couple of decades, universities have become enormously more bureaucratic and administrative, making them a less good research environment than they used to be. The full interview, conducted by Sophia Dew on MTS Live, is available on YouTube.
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