Research grants let the Institute shrink while its directors bought academic access.

Evidence

In practice, this led to the following strategy, with the usual vacillations and contradictions. From 1939 onwards, the Institute’s directors had been attempting to throw off ballast and, at the same time, to acquire new finance for research projects. On the one hand, they were preparing favourable conditions for Horkheimer’s theoretical work by arranging for him to move to the west coast, where he would be able to live at a splendid remove from the academic system. On the other hand, they were simultaneously trying to maintain the impression that the Institute was continuing its normal existence. This tendency became stronger when in 1941 the opportunity presented itself of giving salaried full-scale lectures within the faculty at Columbia, instead of merely unpaid lectures in the Extension Division. The chance of a professorship was even held out. In the end, using research grants for special projects, they succeeded in keeping a rather scaled-down, self-financing rump of the Institute going. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 287

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the earlier material on the Institute’s Columbia affiliation and Extension Division lecturing, showing how the 1941 lecture arrangement changed its institutional footing. — connects to: Horkheimer moved to secure his own funding as the Institute’s endowment shrank. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1086; Losing its theoreticians and its contracts made the Institute dependent on project grants. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 690; Financial precarity drove the Institute’s directors into a research contract — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 480 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer moved to secure his own funding as the Institute’s endowment shrank. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1086; Losing its theoreticians and its contracts made the Institute dependent on project grants. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 690; Financial precarity drove the Institute’s directors into a research contract — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 480 (+2 more)