My mentions are out of control right now so if you’re all well actually the NIH overhead cut is a good thing because there are too many deans, I don’t much care whether it’s duplicity or ignorance on your part — you’re getting blocked.
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Nothing that's happening to the NIH is a good thing for anyone in the US or anywhere else in the world. Anyone who claims otherwise has no understanding of the interconnectedness of our world.
The monumental vicious stupidity of "We'll just start by making cuts with no evaluation of what we're cutting, sure in the knowledge that we're Smart Guys Who Are Always Right" looks like confidence to other monumentally vicious and stupid people. And I guess it is, but it's the Dunning-Kruger kind.
I appreciate your heads-up about this issue. If NIH follows through and the new policy is not enjoined, states like CO will really get hurt. We have one medical school here, affiliated with CU, and the entire state depends on it. And I think Children's Hospital Colorado probably gets NIH grants.
That’s the thing. It will sink med schools, given their pay structures. So should my kid who is getting ready to apply to med school apply in Europe or here? And then when he (and the rest of his cohort) graduate, do we have enough doctors here? Probably not.
No one understands pay structures at all. They think that salaries are paid by universities. They are not. Anywhere from 40% to 95% of salary are soft money for faculty and staff. You eat what you kill. Research is 100% soft money. Universities don’t fund research.
I was on an NIH panel and a reviewer from a public university was shocked to learn faculty at private universities buy out their teaching with research grants. Without IDC, universities will have to require that research stops and faculty teach 3 courses a semester. With, of course, layoffs.
We were short about 10mil and redesigned our entire curriculum, scheduling, academic calendar, positions etc. This scale of loss will hit very hard. I wouldn’t be surprised if some university systems need to cut/reduce entire universities to balance the books.
Well, there probably is some administrative bloat in most universities, but slashing IDC won't cure that. As I said elsewhere, proportionately, medical schools and research hospitals will be the worst hit.
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