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Given I know someone who works rather hard, full time, on negotiating grants and other contracts and they're far from the Dean level, I'd suggest you're off fro
by Fomite 10y ago
Given I know someone who works rather hard, full time, on negotiating grants and other contracts and they're far from the Dean level, I'd suggest you're off from the amount of work required to run and administer a university by a pretty hefty margin.
- pdimitar 10y agoWell, I don't mind being wrong on that one, it's mostly side observations plus some intuition, and we know these aren't exactly objective criteria. That being said, in your example maybe the dean simply couldn't be bothered? :P
- tnecniv 10y agoIt's more likely that the dean is just not the person who should be writing the grant proposal. Professors whose groups are actively working in the area the grant is for will write a much better proposal. It's also expected that as a professor you are -- to a significant degree -- capable of funding your group.
- Fomite 10y agoI'm not even talking about grant writing. I'm talking about things like negotiating licensing agreements for private industry, contract negotiation to make sure publication and graduate students are protected, etc.
- Fomite 10y agoMore that's a full time job all it's own, and is only one aspect of grant administration. Unless the Dean is some sort of omniscient AI, that's not going to work out well.