ERIC Number: ED138168
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1977-Jan
Pages: 14
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Salary Reimbursement--Benefits and Costs.
Levin, Louis
The policies of most research-oriented universities with regard to reimbursement for faculty time from grants and contracts can probably be summed up in a single sentence: "Let's get as much as we can." Several areas of concern arise from this situation: (1) the university's ability to plan its future, develop real goals and objectives, govern and control itself, and determine a balance of activities are threatened; (2) money granted on a year-to-year basis creates instability; (3) federal regulation threatens the institutions; (4) federal control of areas of research performed by the universities endangers the principles of research; (5) inconsistency in institutional policy on faculty reimbursement creates inequity between universities; (6) occasional abuses of the grant system damage the entire academic and research community; and (7) some universities and faculty members have come to resemble other pressure groups, occasionally becoming arrogant in the process. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Federal Aid, Federal Government, Financial Policy, Government Role, Grants, Higher Education, Institutional Role, Research
Office of Institutional Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007 ($2.00)
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Note: Paper presented at the second annual academic planning conference (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, January 19-21, 1977)