March 11, 2005

Campus Climate and Outsourcing

To the Editor:

I read the articles regarding outsourcing in The Chronicle's January 28 special section on campus services with great interest, having recently completed my doctoral research on the relationship between outsourcing and perceptions of campus climate. According to the literature, the outsourcing of campus services has become a common response to the reductions in federal and state aid to most public colleges and universities, and to the efforts of many institutions to