Funds may be granted for funds other than requested. They also say they won t pay for what the university is not supporting. Suppose you get a grant and it runs for three years. Then, the issue is who will pay for continuing the function. Paul G Another piece of the puzzle.
Most grants are for a finite time.
Most departments spend every penny on hardware and software and zero on support. We can't bank the money and that s part of the problem as well. We wanted to provide teaching stations for the social science division. The proposal was smashed. Not for any other reason than the people looking at it had no logical conception I m beginning to think that people above certain pay grades are making decisions without interaction with people making the grant.