The announcement of the federal grants comes less than a week after the systemwide Day of Action by University of California campuses, which protested fee hikes and cutbacks to faculty and staff. "Our budget situation is very, very difficult," Yang said. However, the millions of dollars in research money can never be used to supplement faculty salaries or anything else. Witherell said the spending of competitive grants is meticulously tracked by the government. Public universities have five budgets, and there are firewalls between each one to prevent money for one purpose being spent for another. "The role of the grant process isn’t to replace what the state’s responsibility is," Capps said, adding that the government needs to make educational institutions a priority.

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by Giana Magnoli, The Santa Barbara Noozhawk.

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