Topline: The federal government gives billions of dollars in research grants to universities every year, but not all of it ...

Jay Greene is a senior research fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Defenders of 60% overhead rates, however, insist that they absolutely need this money to cover ...

Late last Friday, Feb. 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it was immediately capping overhead rates on all research grants at 15%. Because most research universities rely on overhead ...

Universities are protesting the Trump administration’s plan to limit the overhead, also known as indirect costs, covered by federal research grants. They argue this change violates a long-standing ...

The Ford Foundation works with thousands of nonprofits, each with different needs and structures. Yet its program grants pay for related indirect costs at a single rate — 20 percent of the grant. Such ...

There’s an important battle brewing over university overhead rates. Sounds boring, right? But hang with me and you’ll see why this is so crucially important to America. It will determine whether ...

Massachusetts Hall is located in Harvard Yard and houses the University president's office. As indirect costs from the National Institutes of Health hang in legal limbo, Harvard's rate has come under ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued guidance capping the “indirect costs” of all NIH grants at 15%. Universities such as Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard have been ...