Academics have a love-hate relationship with money that, I think, can sometimes impede forward progress.
I bring this up because of an email conversation with a friend and colleague of mine. I had asked this person about doing an interview for my online grant writing course, and I said I would compensate him for it. He’s someone who has done very well with grants.
He responded telling me that he was uncomfortable with the idea of “charging” for his grant ...(read more)
The dreaded R word. Here, I’ll say it: recession! Administrators in academia seem to be freaking out about it. I understand why… the big budget cuts that they deal with are tough. The question is, are they dealing with those cuts in the right way? Does penny pinching really work? Get the inside scoop from Morgan, the Not So Boring Scientist (formerly ...(read more)
The cost of information being “free”
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Academics have a love-hate relationship with money that, I think, can sometimes impede forward progress.
I bring this up because of an email conversation with a friend and colleague of mine. I had asked this person about doing an interview for my online grant writing course, and I said I would compensate him for it. He’s someone who has done very well with grants.
He responded telling me that he was uncomfortable with the idea of “charging” for his grant ...(read more)
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