[lbo-talk] Disappoint With #125

[Michael Perelman]

And in the CSU system, the overhead goes into foundations, which are 
totally unaccountable.  The legislature passed a bill to make them more 
transparent, but someone vetoed it.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:17:44AM -0700, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> Not only that, but research grants usually have to pay "overhead"
> into the general fund at rates that exceed my imagination.  This
> even includes hardware purchased for the research: a project I was
> on once had $2700 of "overhead" tacked onto the price of a $2500
> server purchased from Dell that didn't even live on campus.
> 
> /jordan
> 
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