To be promoted and tenured, however, is an honor to be recognized for their individual efforts. That would require us to have another 325,000 sq. Every time we build a building, there are construction and operational costs. This can't be done in isolation by the College of Medicine. More appropriately, a University Research Strategic Plan can identify the opportunities.
Indirect costs offset the infrastructure costs of doing research.
People don't realize when they receive a grant to do research which has little or no indirect cost associated with it, it actually incurs cost for the Institution ie., the costs of grants accounting, the administration of that grant, space costs, departmental resource costs that are not factored into the cost of the grant. We have to decide how much of this research we can afford. That's a nice way of thinking about it. I think the associate professor begins to take on some responsibility in the group, department, division, the center, or whatever unit in which they work. It requires the assumption of the responsibility for mentoring generativity of junior faculty members and helping with the chores.