indirect costs

Indirect Costs Make Science a Revenue Game Not a Discovery Quest

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published National Association of Scholars report, Rescuing Science. It has been edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission.  Since the Trump administration proposed a 15 percent cap on them in February, indirect costs on research grants are the object […]

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$15 Billion Saved from Indirect Costs Boosts Research

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published National Association of Scholars report, Rescuing Science. It has been edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission.  Indirect costs are a hot topic right now, set off by the Trump administration floating a proposal for the National […]

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Drunken Parties and Exotic Trips—Indirect Costs Must Be Slashed

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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