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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]External research grants can be used to fund professors. These professors then may be paid a small portion of their salary from the university while a large percent of their salary comes from the grant. Furthermore a portion of research money is dedicated to university functions i.e. building expenses, etc.

Meanwhile, universities with less research may have to pay the entirety of the professor's salary with university funds. [/quote]

Research grants are typically restricted to purpose.  Tuition is unrestricted.  From a Council on Government Relations report authored by university aministrators:

"Sources of revenue for both public and private research universities can be divided into
unrestricted and restricted resources. Unrestricted resources can be used at the discretion
of the institution for the primary missions of teaching, research, public service, or any
other activity. The primary unrestricted sources for operations are state appropriations
(public) and tuition (both public and private). Restricted resources are those that are
limited in use by third parties, such as donors and research sponsors. Restrictions are
typically related to the use of the resources for a particular organizational unit (e.g., the
physics department), to a particular purpose (e.g., music scholarships), or to a specific
activity (e.g., NIH-funded cancer research). "

"Revenue that supports a federally sponsored research program is required by the sponsor to have a one-to-one relationship
with the expenditures for that program. On the other hand, revenue sources that are
unrestricted, such as state appropriations and tuition, support a wide range of institutional
activities, including teaching, student services, and administration; the one-to-one
revenue-expenditure relationship does not exist. Instead, a single, limited pool of
unrestricted revenue is expended according to the competing needs and priorities of the
university."

Authors include:  James Luther, Committee Chairman Cynthia Hope
Duke University University of Alabama
James Barbret Terry Johnson
Wayne State University University of Iowa
Sara Bible Ron Maples
Stanford University University of Tennessee System
Mary Lee Brown Kim Moreland
University of Pennsylvania University of Wisconsin
Michael Daniels Ryan Rapp (Volunteer)
Northwestern University University of Missouri System
Kelvin Droegemeier John Shipley
University of Oklahoma University of Miami
Dan Evon Cathy Snyder
Michigan State University Vanderbilt University
Jill Ferguson (Volunteer and Editor) Eric Vermillion (Retired)
University of Missouri, Columbia University of California,
 San Francisco

About 30% of research budget comes from institutional funding on average, since the grants don't cover all costs.  A significant part of that likely comes from unrestricted funds (tuition, state appropriations).  So again I dispute your claim that more research is necessarily better from an undergraduate education point of view.

https://www.cogr.edu/COGR/files/ccLibraryFiles/Filename/000000000267/Finances%20of%20Research%20Universities_June%202014.pdf [/quote]

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