<p>I know, I know. The argument is that the big researcher professors more than pay their own way and bring huge amounts of money to the universities. But does that money offset tuition and pay the price of teaching faculty? I don’t think so. I think that money goes into “indirect costs” like construction and labs and research staff and administrators (ever taken a peak at the amount of administrative staff big research schools devote to simply managing the research grant proposals and budgets of the grants?) </p>
<p>I just don’t think it translates into lowering tuition. Not the only problem, of course.</p>