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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 2843182, member: 153"] There are different parts of universities. One is the private foundation. No one knows what is going on there. Elsewhere, people have budgets. Those are being slashed. Presidents slash the academic budgets, and they leave the private foundation alone. There are huge consequences to the cuts. Anyone who thinks the quality of education isn't being drastically diminished is totally fooling themselves. As a parent of two teens/tweens, I will stay very far away from any school that is slashing funding. We had a fool at my school who did practically the same thing as this joker (without the sex part) and we are paying a price for his idiocy. The net result is that the students get less service. Why? Because we aren't reimbursed anymore for services that have been contracted with donors (i.e. someone donated money for a specific purpose, the new system rejects reimbursement for the services provided to fulfill donors wishes, those services are then canceled, and people are left wondering what will then happen to the money donated. That money is going somewhere). In the end, the administrators win either way. Who is to blame? The encroachment of ill fitting business practices (ie. metrics) into the academic system. [/QUOTE]