Just to hazard a (somebody correct me if I'm wong) guess, I would say it is because fewer and fewer of out elected officials are not, in fact, a product of the public school system. They didn't need it, why should anyone else?
That and Tech is a research institution, not a teaching institution, no matter how much the admistration insists that it is. Tenure-track professors rise and fall by how much money in grants they can bring into the system, not by how effective they are at teaching. Therefore, the departments that survive are the ones that bring in outside money.
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Date: 2003-07-14 08:00 pm (UTC)That and Tech is a research institution, not a teaching institution, no matter how much the admistration insists that it is. Tenure-track professors rise and fall by how much money in grants they can bring into the system, not by how effective they are at teaching. Therefore, the departments that survive are the ones that bring in outside money.