
"Please send us your generous contribution today," the letter urges. So we were surprised, recently, to receive a fund-raising letter from another higher education association, one that is well-known for its opposition to all but the most traditional of college curricula. If we've got deep pockets, then they've got holes in them.


We enjoy support from a number of funding agencies and from hundreds of member institutions, and we've paid off the mortgage to our own building (a lovely house that once belonged to the Oliver Wendell Holmes family), but we're hardly rich. Like most non-profit organizations, AAC&U struggles to make ends meet.
