Thanks for posting Alan, some great news all around there that I am sure The Post will certainly put front page/above the fold tomorrow, and helped contribute to my chain with Steve Hays on your prior thread:

"Thanks for the reply to my comment Mr. Hays, and you missed my point entirely.  Not once did I say that you were critical of Jim Schaus.  I stated that asking Jim to defend the ICA Department and the funding thereof is completely missing the point.  Would you ask a zebra to defend the reason it has stripes or ask a driver to defend why they choose to drive the speed limit?

The first line of your editorial supports Ms. Yanity's call for Jim to defend ICA and the funding levels/costs/policies, and my assertion is that a call to do so is irrelevant to your belief that the link of the ICA budget to student fees is "malignant". (not your words, but clearly words you support)

Are prospective students forbidden from asking the question "How are my Student Fees disbursed?" prior to enrolling at Ohio?  If you do not want a direct and very transparent link between ICA funding to Student Fees, then from where would you like ICA's budget to be derived within the present annual operating budget in order for you and your colleagues to feel that the linkage was less malignant?

Have the students that provide your salary and budget publicly asked you to defend your contribution to the University, and if not would you like them to do so?  Should we ask you for an ROI on your Department's contribution to the bottom line, as after all, the good students our my beloved alma mater, as well as my planned giving and annual donations to Ohio, fund you and your department directly?

The ANews did a very complimentary piece today demonstrating that the University as a whole and ICA in particular have proved to be good stewards to their collective budgets in the last two fiscal years.  And the ICA budget in 2010 constituted roughly 3.5% of the entire University budget.

Considering all the revenue streams into the University, does that seem like an onorous amount in order to provide the students, faculty, staff and Alumni to have a face to the world that is more public and marketable to the broader populace than the good work that you and your fellow staff members do on a daily basis in the class room?"