> You can't change what's direct vs indirect. I may have incorrectly used a term of art there. That said… I am certain that universities will not come out on

> You can't change what's direct vs indirect. I may have incorrectly used a term of art there. That said… I am certain that universities will not come out on the short end of this deal for very long, if at all. There are myriad ways they can do this that will pass an audit. Some games I’ve seen played before the current nonsense: - put requests from unfavored grants at the bottom of the priority list - move unfavored grants to crappy and/or inconvenient locations (my favorite was when they split one “group” into four different buildings, basically giving them everyone else’s space scraps) - cut rotations for things like cleaning staff to the absolute contractual minimum - stop providing free QoL perks - the worst case scenario is where they just provide a lower level of service to everyone University administrations are pros at being petty tyrants — it’s their superpower. The question is in what ways will they use these powers when their cut from certain grants is reduced.