Re:The Curse of a New Building
by djcapelis on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @06:35PM
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Might have something to do with the fact that university donors love to build new buildings instead of just giving the university money to be spent on HR. (And then the university doesn't have a guaranteed funding source for a top professor? Yikes!)
Endowed chairs work a bit better, but those usually don't go towards new recruitment.
Re:The Curse of a New Building
by unwind on Thursday August 19, 2010 @05:52AM
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Isn't that, in turn, perhaps because oftentimes donors then get to name the building? At least this seems common in the US, but that's just an observation from the outside.
Endowed chairs work a bit better, but those usually don't go towards new recruitment.