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“The University of Idaho is spending nearly $400,000 a year to support three employees in New Mexico without any oversight, an electrical engineering professor at the school says.”
UI professor questions money spent in New Mexico
Thoughts?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Don_Sausser on May 27 at 2:24 p.m.
oooooh, the link requires a password log in???
nancym on May 27 at 2:32 p.m.
Hi Don,
Try the link again. It should be fixed.
JamesBond on May 27 at 2:53 p.m.
Unreal. This happens too much up there.
idawa on May 27 at 2:56 p.m.
The most striking thing is uncertainty of the UI admin over what the money is being used for and the lack of oversight. I’m not opposed to the money being spent though. The nano-processing research is some of best stuff coming out of Idaho (in a recent study they had second billing on a paper with Cornell), and it could lead to some important breakthroughs and patents for the school. I would like to see this explored though, why does it have to be done in New Mexico, etc… I look forward to seeing more facts uncovered before everyone starts to get unglued. More information is needed to decide if this is, indeed, the dreaded specter of ‘wasteful spending.’
Incognito on May 28 at 3:54 p.m.
Yet they did nothing to keep the research going on cloning. Dirk Vanderwall left because he had no one to support him or his program. It is sad that they can’t keep the brightest people they have in Moscow.
Escapee on May 29 at 8:34 p.m.
Why would anyone send someone to New Mexico for anything? Especially when the University has been facing budget cutbacks all over the place. If I was still a student, I’d think, “oh, this is why they hiked my tuition fee.”