<p>article about endowment declines affecting a lot of schools – <a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/education/27college.html?ref=education[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/education/27college.html?ref=education</a></p>
<p>when you are at a school it is easy to get upset about the changes that occur there during financial difficulties – but you have to remember a lot of other schools are experiencing tough times now – they will all probably handle it in different ways. it’ll probably be years before we can really tell which schools managed thru these times without sacrificing their academic standing and which didn’t.</p>