The documents reveal something of the university's state of mind in the months leading up to the crisis, as administrators feuded over budgets and discontent spread among board members.
The Associated Press, in a demoralizing report, recently noted: "As the school budget crisis deepens, administrators across the nation have started to view school libraries as luxuries that can be axed rather than places where kids learn to love reading and do research".
As the global economy begins to recover from the shocks of the 2008 financial crisis, Duke administrators have begun to reassess the university's budgetary situation.
And on the refugee crisis, Helen Clark, UN Development Programme administrator, and Erik Solheim, chairman of the OECD development assistance committee, argue that spending aid money on taking in refugees poses a threat to long-term development.
The Environmental Protection Agency has long been considering changes to the regulation that failed to prevent the Flint water crisis, but EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has continued the pattern of delaying proposed revisions.
The Environmental Protection Agency has long been considering changes to the regulation that failed to prevent the Flint water crisis, but EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has continued the pattern of delaying proposed revisions. .
On Monday, the president of Rutgers, Richard L. McCormick, delivered a pessimistic assessment of the institution's financial state amid the national economic crisis and asked top administrators to draw up plans in case the state cuts its financing again in the middle of the year.
He said he's also worried that a tunnel-vision focus on preparing for active shooters has caused administrators and crisis teams to neglect preparations for other incidents that are more likely to occur.
Community solutions posed Saturday to state Sen. Carol Liu about the state's budget crisis ranged from streamlining school administrators to allowing the production of hemp.
