April 17, 2009

It's Not Just About the Money

By DAVID SHIEH

Faculty morale has been hurt by colleges' austerity measures, even if professors still have jobs

Michael K. McBeath, an associate professor of psychology at Arizona State University, likes to burn some energy in the middle of the day.

So do his colleagues. For years, roughly two dozen faculty and staff members hit the gym for a game of basketball around noon, three times a week.

Now their roster has been cut in half — by anxiety.

As budget cuts have

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