[lbo-talk] Disappoint With #125

[Alan Rudy]

The problem here is that research faculty and pro-Big Science and
university-industry collaboration/technology transfer agreement
administrators argue that the overhead brought in by Big Science grants pays
for the research, the overhead, the auditing and more... that big research
grants fund general education... when, in fact - and Chuck is right on this,
big research grants (and athletics) draw down the general fund.

If researchers and administrators argued that Big Science contributed to the
commonweal and, as such, deserved a subsidy through tuition, fees and state
dollars that'd be one thing... and we could hold them to that, but they
don't... at the most they argue that what's good for large corporate profits
and info-/bio-tech start-ups is good for the public.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Mar 11, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Chuck Loucks wrote:
>
>  If a tenured track professor is hired mainly to do research, why should
>> undergrads
>> have to pay the cost of that research for the length of time said
>> professor spends on
>> research?
>>
>
> Because maybe research makes better professors and enriches human
> knowledge?
>
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