[lbo-talk] Disappoint With #125

[Wojtek S]

[WS:]  Correct.  Overhead at at JHU is about 27% if memory serves and is
causes foreign funders to drop their jaws (they tell us that In Europe it is
no more than 10%).

Wojtek

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:


> Wojtek writes:
>
>  In my institution research is 100% supported by
>> outside grants - we do not get a penny from tuition.
>>
>
> 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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