At the same time, a good bit of it comes from the fact that the neoliberal idea that sucking off large portions of massive external grants - federal and corporate - will generate income that will more than pay for the indirect/overhead costs of the grants (and therefore allow some cash to return to the general fund) has turned out to be massively massively massively wrong... the costs of the layers of lab infrastructures, services, personnel, certifiers, regulators and bureaucrats necessary to administer grants just about always supercedes indirect cost recovery... but the more wrong their approach proves to be the more committed they become to pursuing ever-larger grants and ever-more extensive university-industry relations to make up the difference.
Alan
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 7, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Chuck Loucks wrote:
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> Would you care to take a stab at the question I asked of Mary Sue Coleman,
>> that is, what do we get for all that extra money?
>>
>
> Wish I knew, but I don't, sorry. They have added massive layers of
> administration, no?
>
> I went to high school with Walter Benn Michaels' friend and former
> co-author, Steve Knapp, who's now president of George Washington University.
> Wish I could ask him, but I haven't spoken to him in 35 years.
>
> Doug
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