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From my understanding working in research (I don't touch grants, though), universities are not supposed to take any administrative fees for small expenditures (
by steve-howard 15y ago
From my understanding working in research (I don't touch grants, though), universities are not supposed to take any administrative fees for small expenditures (I believe my PI said it was $5k here, but it was a while ago that I heard this).
- _delirium 15y agoIt's actually the opposite, I believe--- equipment expenditures over $5k with expected lifetime >1 yr are considered capital purchases improving the university's facilities, rather than expenses, and not subject to overhead. It leads to weird situations where it's actually cheaper to load up your $4k server with $1k in crap you don't really need, to turn it into a capital improvement.
- steve-howard 15y agoThat's actually very curious, because the stories I've heard are exactly the opposite of that -- building $100k servers $1k at a time, etc. Perhaps every school skims off the top in a different way.