The Case for Unfair Competition
Captive operations like in-plants support their parent organizations’ missions, bringing better flexibility and control. For this reason, insists one university administrator, the competition should be unfair.
Under mission funding (sometimes called direct funding), a department is granted its budget. It doesn't have to do anything to earn that budget other than to accomplish its mission. An academic department's mission is to teach, and so it teaches. The mission funding pays for that.
Mission funding works well when the service offered by the department is not subject to abuse if it were offered free. The accounting office is an excellent example. People don't fall all over themselves to take advantage of free accounting.
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