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FYI, and not making any judgement, but this is how they pay for office space and for research that is too esoteric/risky to get external funding.
by cmsmith 11y ago
FYI, and not making any judgement, but this is how they pay for office space and for research that is too esoteric/risky to get external funding.
- jessaustin 11y agoDoes the esoteric research not go through the grant application process?
- javert 11y agoAs far as I've seen, in CS academia, grad students are almost always funded through a government grant (or something similar). However, salary for tenured professors is guaranteed regardless. So, if you are a tenured professor, you can choose to do esoteric research that will not get a government grant, but you won't have any grad students. It actually works out because the less practical, more theory oriented profs do not really need grad students. Whereas the more practical, application oriented profs need grad students to do all the work and they end up "setting up shop" like little companies---and get grants to pay for the students (mainly tuition, also a small stipend). Not that I'm defending it, but it has a kind of internally consistent logic.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoNo, research that's too esoteric or risky to get external funding just gets the researcher fired.