Woo-hoo! Rebate, Ho!
Apparently Hublet and I are part of the lucky 800,000 - the magical gummit money appeared in the checking account this a.m.
And being the good patriotic citizens we are, we have already earmarked the cash for a trip to Boston.
Double-plus good patriotic duty-doers, we!
Speaking of government money (at NCSU at least)...
The Spending Side of the Equation
Across sectors of higher education, only a minority of spending by colleges supports direct instructional costs, according to a report being released today as part of an effort to reframe the debate over college costs.
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But as my former Dean (who's now a retired Dean thank heavens) once told the assembled faculty senators for his college "We'll never be a top ten institution on the strength of our undergraduate program". Want to guess what his priorities were?