On Tue, 20 Aug 1991 16:09:18 CST Sandra Basgall said: >The fallout from Kinko's has been greatly enlarged due to the lack of >resources due to the recession we seem to not be happening. Our library >will only allow 25 books per professor in the reserve room as they don't >have enough staff to handle more. Sandra raises another, touchy issue: the affect of the recession on film/TV education. I know that U of Oregon's Department of Speech (which housed film/TV) was recently disbanded, with the tenured faculty being farmed out to other departments. Here at Alabama the Dean has just begun talking about cutting positions--an unheard of concept even before during the economic setbacks of the '80s. Does anyone have horror stories they'd care to share on SCREEN-L? (If they think it's appropriate.) And what have educators been doing to deal with the current tight-money situation? And, perhaps crucially, how may faculty find out just how tight is "tight". We're constantly told that "there is no money"--even when administrators' pet projects continue to be funded. How do we know when the money >really< isn't there? ---------- | | Bitnet : JBUTLER@UA1VM | | Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] | | | GEnie : J.BUTLER27 | | | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |