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Hire a senior chemist, however, and you might need to invest $250,000 or more to equip a lab.Although I would certainly welcome an extra quarter of a million dollars, that amount would be extraordinarily excessive for the type of research I do.
And not all chemists would need the same amount of start-up money; the amount would be dictated by the nature of their research.
Multiply such disparities across colleges, and they become even more pronounced.
The start-up money for a new faculty member in a college of engineering or a medical school may seem astronomical when compared to that required by our senior chemist.
And start-up money is only one of countless other differences.
A sociology department with a doctoral program requires substantially greater resources than a department without one; a school of communication that operates a public television and/or radio station has considerable resource needs thanks to those stations; and a medical sc...
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