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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds about right. They need the money, bad.[/quote]

Ah, the Middlebury troll is back.

Middlebury has zero financial problems, has never had any and likely never will. They are in the top 50 or so schools in the country in terms of endowment (larger than U Miami for example) with more resources per student than schools such as Cornell, Brown, Northwestern, Chicago.

Middlebury has had a small nagging deficit for awhile because Laurie Patton preferred to just ignore it. Baucomb quickly made the right decision on MIIS and I suspect that it will quickly disappear. Even if it didn't the actual budget effect is small kind of like their $1.6B endowment functioning more like a $1.4B endowment. Middlebury also draws conservatively from their endowment, taking a full point less  (4.5-5.0%) than peer schools like Colby for example.[/quote]
It factually has a deficit that president Baucom is working to fix. As an alum, it’s tiring seeing threads delude themselves that there’s anything but a deficit.[/quote]

Nobody said it wasn't a deficit but it is a meaningless one except for being a bit embarrassing. As to delusion, the only delusion here is you pretending to be a Middlebury Alum.[/quote]
So meaningless the president immediately needed to address it and then chose to shut down MIIS? This is the concern of much of MAA, so I’m not sure why you’re brushing it off as if it hasn’t hemorrhaged the institution.[/quote]

Look, we've went thorough this with you before.

Baucomb didn't need to address anything regarding the deficit because it is noise no matter how much you blither. Their investment grade credit rating shows exactly how much anyone cared about the deficit.

Baucomb did need to address MIIS because it was the cause of the deficits and has been under discussion among the Faculty from the day it was acquired. MIIS was acquired against the wishes of the Faculty and they have never been quiet about their feelings that it detracted from Middlebury's core mission. They were right and it was a failing on the part of Laurie Patton to not have addressed the situation sooner. The new president is addressing this not because it is any real financial burden but rather it is an issue that needs addressing and he likely doesn't want the noise during his tenure.

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He addressed both. It's clear you don't actually engage with the MAA and are overly defensive about a truth. Middlebury is a great institution, but it isn't perfect.[/quote]

He mentioned the deficit as any thinking being would.

Basically you are just a fu*king idiot. You have been batted around before and the result will be the same this time. I'll let others step in because we don't put up with your nonsense.[/quote]

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