Some hard lessons about college costs

[CrewDad]

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They lure top researchers, make them professors who don’t teach, then tell them to be “rain makers” who bring in the grant money. So a lot of the budget of the U goes to professors who don’t do the thing we pay tuition for

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<p>Actually, research professors self-fund their salaries by obtaining the very grants you acknowledged they’re responsible for procuring.
Yale, for example, received ~650 million in grants and contract income for fiscal year 2009-2010. In other words, research professors are significant revenue-enhancers. And when you consider the advancements in medicine, technology, et cetera, that can be directly attributed to university research, it’s a win-win.</p>