"financial crisis"

Rosy Positivism Meets Reality

Yesterday I wrote a piece wondering- out loud- about exploring and considering every option before cutting/laying off faculty. Since then I heard a National Public Radio (NPR) about Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI). Known as the hippy MBA, Gifford Pinchot, Bainbridge’s founder and president describes this school’s M.O. this way- “devoted to bringing sustainability and social [...]

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Some Thoughts As Boarding School Layoffs Mount

Editor’s Note: Brian Fisher, one of the lead bloggers for AQ’s Boarding School Blog, contributed this post. Moving forward I will regularly feature guest contributors under the ‘Peter Baron’ banner. Stories of boarding school budget cuts and layoffs have been moving through the tight knit school grapevine and in some cases published in the paper [...]

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