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...SMALL ENOUGH TO DISAPPEAR...
...this environment, the budgeting process for small departments, formerly almost a matter of course—is far less certain...
...would think, this department has only one concentrator every two years and two grad students. And then you add up the grad student stipends, multiply by five years, and you ask yourself, ‘Why should we be doing this? Why do we need the small departments...
...Just because a department has a small number of faculty or small number of concentrators taking their courses—that’s not a good reason for getting rid of it,” Smith says. “Take something like Sanskrit—it might be small on campus but India is huge...
...billion to the “Race to the Top” initiative that gives states an immediate monetary incentive to monetary incentive to reform dilapidated public schools. As part of the broader American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Race to the Top—a small fraction of the total $96.8 billion allocated to the Department of Education under the stimulus package—is a wise investment. The program counters the influence of unions and defers to the longstanding autonomy of local school boards in order to implement policies those boards consider worthwhile. The program also introduces...