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https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2019-20-budget-summary.pdf https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2019-20... I think UC is f
by kart23 7y ago
https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2019-20-budget-summary.pdf https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2019-20...
I think UC is first and foremost a research institution. A lot of these professors are barely involved in undergraduate teaching, and the massive staff employee count I think is a lot of people related to research and assisting these researchers. That's why the undergraduate student experience is going down at UCs, with worse class sizes, and less engagement.
- eslaught 7y agoResearch is funded by research grants from government organizations or private companies. Administrators (those involved in enabling research) are funded by "overheads" i.e. a percentage of money taken off the top of grants before any of it is allowed to be used for actual research. No tuition money goes into this. So I'd expect the tuition increase to be associated with teaching staff or teaching administrators (either dedicated to this full time or else as a percentage of their time), not with research (which is basically self-sustaining anyway). In fact, probably one of the motivations for increasing research activities is that it naturally brings in money and that you don't need to increase tuition to do it. I do agree that research professors don't necessarily make the best teaching professors, but that's an entirely separate issue from the financial one.
- kart23 7y agoOh. Thanks for clearing that up. I go to a UC, so I'm pretty interested in where all our money is going. It just seems like so much goes in, but the ROI isn't exactly there for a lot of students.