<p>Excellent letter, TD.</p>
<p>I’m not surprised, however. If it weren’t chaplains being cut, it would be something else. The current economic crisis has result in cuts at all universities – from non-tenure track faculty members to facilities/maintenance. Small liberal arts schools are especially vulnerable because they don’t have the enormous endowments of large universities. Since no university/college can afford to cut anything that will affect their academic reputation, cuts are made in non-permanent and non-faculty areas, hence the chaplain crisis at Smith.</p>