Timeline for Are professors not allowed to work on what they want to work on without a grant?
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| Aug 20, 2018 at 14:19 | comment | added | JeffE | +1 but the MacArthur Fellowship isn't "grant funding"; it's a direct gift to the recipient. Using that money to support graduate students or buy out of teaching could be challenging. | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 19:52 | comment | added | ff524 | @AlJebr External funding shows that faculty are doing extremely competitive research, and so it increases the prestige of the university. As does the research it enables. (But, yes: some of the grant money goes to the school as "overhead", to pay for things like facilities. The "overhead rate" varies at different universities.) | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 19:23 | comment | added | user5826 | @ff524 Why is it necessary to bring in grant money to get promoted? Is the school getting this money and not the professor? | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:49 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 11, 2016 at 7:52 | comment | added | ff524 | @Fatalize the United States | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 7:51 | comment | added | Fatalize | "pay his/her own summer salary, if the university only pays 9 months of salary a year" In what country is that a thing?! | |
| Apr 10, 2016 at 8:39 | comment | added | user2390246 | In addition, research equipment/materials in some disciplines can be expensive! The institution is unlikely to be able to cover these for major projects. | |
| Apr 10, 2016 at 4:03 | history | answered | ff524 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |