I think we're absolutely talking about the right thing in terms of how we think about redistribution. Those answers aren't always easy.
My colleague talked about impact, and I think that's a really important thing. How do we quantify impact? I would say for our researchers and our student researchers, their biggest marker is whether they are actually having an impact in industry. Are they helping to move the needle? I think we have to move beyond traditional metrics around publications and so on and include the extent to which our technologies and our IP are getting translated into actual industry productions.
All that is to say that I believe we need to come up with a different system that would allow for smaller and medium-sized universities to get a larger slice of the pie, because certainly we have areas of specialization that the U15 does not. I'm not sure whether the proposals I heard today that were based simply on graduate student numbers will bring us to the desired outcomes.