From Marc Bousquet's Blog: "Is your 'fiscal crisis' real?"
As we have been saying since the beginning of the project, we have had much doubt regarding the existence of the “financial crisis” within universities. And now Marc Bousquet points to work by Howard Bunsis, treasurer of the American Association of University Professors , that points out that all the consternation about the “fiscal crisis” might be much ado about nothing. Indeed, Bunsis shows, according to Bousquet, that “at many schools, tuition and other revenue is up, or existing reserves could easily cushion the shortfall.”
You can read the entire post at Bousquet’s blog, as well as a set of slides by Bunsis or his article in the Chronicle of Higher Education . I encourage you to do so, and to let others know about this work as well.
Posted on 2009-10-28 08:30:27