There is significant outcries against the DEI etc overhead at US universities. At some universities this type of overhead competes with total faculty. So how to solve it without throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Simple:
1. Fund research directly with no overhead. Fund faculty, researchers, students if they work.
2. Do not fund overhead. MIT and others have 90% + overhead. It is this slush fund that supports DEI etc.
3. If they still want to do this stuff let them fund it out of endowment funds donated by alumni.
4. But alumni can do what I have done, give the money directly to the researcher for their own fund and not a penny goes to overhead.
This was if the alumni want to support the overhead, let them, but also they have the option for direct funding via faculty discretionary funds, no overheat etc.
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