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...have spent or committed to spend about $500 million to build or upgrade enclosures designed to improve the lives of 250 animals - but nothing so far suggests that does much to improve captive elephants' health or longevity. In Kenya, on the other hand, the wildlife service has an annual budget of just $20 million to look after tens of thousands of elephants. What's more, while Asian elephants remain in jeopardy - with only about 60,000 of them left - cost-effective wildlife-protection programs have allowed the African elephant population to rebound to a robust 500,000. "African elephants...
CORRECTION: The Dec. 10 article, "Smith Asks for Budget Cuts" incorrectly calculated that eight new senior faculty and seven new junior faculty will join FAS if the pared-down searches all prove successful. In fact, seven new senior faculty positions and eight new junior faculty positions are currently being considered...
...Anthropology department chair Theodore C. Bestor, when asked if he had a clear idea of how to move forward with budgetary planning within his department. “If, at this point, we’re being given ranges and overalls with no specifics, how do you write a budget with clean numbers...
...economist Brad DeLong pointed out last May how, on a public budget, the University of California system expanded from teaching 5,000 undergraduates a year in 1960 to 40,000 a year today. During the same time, Harvard grew from 1,200 to 1,600 a year, despite accumulating billions in private donations. It is hard to argue that those additional funds for Harvard were effective on the margin. Harvard has a vested interest in keeping its student body small, since what it produces is essentially a luxury good in the form of Harvard diplomas. As one commenter on DeLong?...
...that will be facing the UC in the coming year. Schwarts and Biggers speak soberly of the impact of the economic crisis on campus life: “It will be the job of the next UC President and Vice President to ensure that, even in the face of budget cuts, commitment to student life remains untouched.” Similarly, Flores and McLeod note that “not only are student groups struggling to plan and execute social events, but their educational events, such as lectures, panels, and forums, are incurring higher costs.” The parallels...