Research is funded by research grants from government organizations or private companies. Administrators (those involved in enabling research) are funded by "ov

Research 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.