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Alan Rudy wrote:
>
> 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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