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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 4710263, member: 153"] Yes, agree. No one is sharing research money unless there are collaborative research grant applications. The great value in the CIC is not in sharing grants but rather in establishing benchmarks across the conference. Those are very difficult to do otherwise unless you have something like an academic/athletic conference (in this case the CIC) sharing internal numbers and processes. Colleges without such setups are forced to rely on external reviewers which are quite costly. It's very convenient to have land grant/flagship state universities handing over information about departmental funding in order to establish benchmarks at each university. Sounds like a small w/ regard to athletics (i.e. it's not make or break) but a pretty big thing inside universities, since the benchmarks are the things against which everything else is assessed. [/QUOTE]