From rcormani@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Mon Feb 6 13:51:12 PST 1995 >From rcormani@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Mon Feb 6 13:51:11 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx5.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.10/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA17979; Mon, 6 Feb 95 13:51:11 -0800 Received: from bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu by mx5.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.10/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA25241; Mon, 6 Feb 95 13:51:10 -0800 Received: from localhost by bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (8.6.4/4.940426) id QAA28734; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 16:51:09 -0500 From: Rosa-Maria Cormanick Message-Id: <199502062151.QAA28734@bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Subject: Re: Science/Humanities observations... To: slavic-uw@u.washington.edu Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 16:51:05 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: from "Brunilda Lugopagan" at Feb 6, 95 10:29:01 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 534 In order to generate an annual budget of $1,500,000 -- which is approx. what the Slavic Dept. at UWA needs (figure published in the UWA Daily 12/1/94) -- you would need an endowment of US$27,500,000 (this is at the present 5.5% interest rate). At Ohio State University to get an endowed professorships it costs $500,000 & for a chair $2,000,000. There are some Slavic Departments in the country that have these professorships or chairs. I don't think this is "possible" solution for Slavic Depts. anywhere! RosaMaria Cormanick .