[labnetwork] PI funding gaps

[Johnson, Michael W]

How do other shared user facilites deal with a situation when a regular user research group PI has a funding shortfall and can't pay user fees?

Is it typical to have some type of temporary waiver mechanism enshrined in the shared user structure or does that PI appeal to their department head to bail them out to bridge a gap?

A waiver feels problematic because it would seem to violate basic fairness in that one group could be getting "free stuff" and everybody else has to pay.

I would be interested to hear how other places deal with a sticky situation like this.


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