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UCLA gets about $800m a year in federal grants. $3.8bn wouldn’t last long if they were to self fund that.
by padjo 1y ago
UCLA gets about $800m a year in federal grants. $3.8bn wouldn’t last long if they were to self fund that.
- davrosthedalek 1y agoAlso: Even if they could, why would they? Grants are for research. Research only very indirectly affects their income. They could probably accept more students (so more tuition) if they would say to the faculty: no research, more teaching. An uber driver who gets rich by other means will stop driving for uber, not drive for uber for free.
- m101 1y agoIf the faculty itself is not willing to ask to spend the endowment on the research (and they know it most intimately), then why should the faculty ask the rest of us to pay?
- Erikun 1y agoSource here https://efm.research.ucla.edu/#:~:text=Statistics%20for%20fiscal%20year%202023,sponsored%20projects%20were%20%241.52%20billion. https://efm.research.ucla.edu/#:~:text=Statistics%20for%20fi...