&gt; when the Senior Research Fellow from DuPont (back from when the fabled Experimental Station was still a thing) who is teaching one really good graduate level course at Penn as adjunct, when this guy walks up to the Chair, saying that his office space shouldn&#x27;t be cut or he won&#x27;t be back, the Chair will listen<p>No, the chair won&#x27;t. This &quot;Senior Research Fellow&quot; is teaching a grad class. The grad class doesn&#x27;t make the university any money. It doesn&#x27;t even pay for the classroom it&#x27;s taught in. If this &quot;guy&quot; is teaching 2 300 person sections, or writes and wins multi million dollar grants, or has the connections with DuPont that give the department money directly, then, yes, they are making the university money.<p>That&#x27;s all the department cares about. That&#x27;s all your management ever cares about, &quot;what have you done for me lately.&quot;