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Thanks to this morning’s Diamondback Article for highlighting – perhaps inadvertently – something of which many faculty have strong concerns: The lack of balance between research and educational needs on this campus.

The article reports an estimated $500 million in backlogged repairs needed on this campus, for which present budget plans do not provide for the first red cent. No surprise there – economy and all that.

But the capital budget does appear (at this time) to include funding for a new Physical Sciences Complex, a priority of the Dean in CMPS (College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences) who is well known as someone who doesn’t consider undergraduate education as one of the missions for his college. The present priority of a research building over an even longer-standing request for facilities for mathematics education drives him his – and the rest of leadership’s – priorities.

Thanks to the Concerned Faculty email list for the forward of that link about the Math Building plight.