My funding plan for the Polymath Foundation has always relied upon a combination of donations and tuition for courses. Although my upcoming stint as an adjunct at Monmouth University has shown me that adjuncts in general are underpaid and lack job security, this is actually positive at the same time – even as I’m on the receiving end of the poor benefits, I also realized that it only takes two to four students’ tuition to pay the course instructor’s salary.

If we assume classes of 20-30 students, this suddenly seems like an excellent way to bootstrap the university.