<div dir="ltr">If the Facebook post can be taken at "face" value, it sounds like the administration actively wants to destroy the collections. A German colleague told me years ago about a museum who hired a new head who didn't see the need for research collections. As it was told, he personally helped toss the specimens into the dumpsters. <div>Louisiana isn't known for the quality of its educational system. A recent study (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wallethub.com_edu_states-2Dwith-2Dthe-2Dbest-2Dschools_5335_&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=0v18NpK8Vglr7xqP95ajQMRdpJ5O1qPNQzsn_qn9AdY&s=sQLlOlHfpT5poqnCB8uPkF7Est2XwGKyzndZQCZo15U&e=">https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-schools/5335/</a>) puts the state at #51 out of 51 states & DC evaluated for the quality of their pre-college systems. Given their priorities, seems like football should win out, although I don't know how many of this institution's players go on to successful NFL careers.</div><div>All the best! - Barry</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Furth, David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:FURTHD@si.edu" target="_blank">FURTHD@si.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>This also happened with the Paleo collections at Princeton & Yale Peabody stepped up and sent a team to pack & transfer them. Also the insect collections at Indiana (so they could expand the sex institute there) and Yale also went to get them before the
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I've been thinking about this ever-growing problem for a while, as now and again you hear of orphaned/abandoned collections.<br>
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What do people think of creating some kind of task force to come up with a list of the collections in the U.S. (iDigBio probably has most of these collections listed already) and reach out to them before things reach a crisis point? We could provide 'emergency'
contact info for other institutions who would be willing to take the material. It may even serve to show the administration of the institutions that other places value the material and give them incentive to preserve them.<br>
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Just a thought.<br>
Chris<br>
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FYI: I'm not affiliated in any way with ULM, I posted about this because it needs broader attention, immediately, and to see if anyone has ideas as to how the museum community might put pressure on the admins of ULM to re-think this terrible ultimatum.<br>
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