The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it is cutting indirect costs to a maximum of 15 percent. What should we make of this effort? Let’s begin by asking a simple question: what are indirect costs? For a research project, there are some costs that are directly attributable to that project such as the […]
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The talented education bloggers at The Quick and the Ed have turned their attention to a topic dear to the hearts of us at Minding the Campus (see my March 31 opinion piece for the Washington Examiner): the reluctance of colleges and universities to take serious steps to cut costs in the face of shrunken […]
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