[Lingtyp] Ethnologue goes for paid access?

[Everett, Daniel]

As a dean  at a private university let me say that nearly all private universities receive public money - through Pell grants, NSF funding etc. I don't know what Matthew means perhaps. 

As a former member of SIL, I would estimate that perhaps 1% of SIL members are motivated by science. Those who are tend to be very very good though. Again, there is an issue of Language deficated in part to a well-informed discussion of SIL (to which I did not contribute).  

And "being run like a business" to me only means making sure that universities manage their resources appropriately - from one who has to read balance sheets and avoid red balances. 

Dan

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> On Jan 2, 2016, at 18:06, Matthew Dryer <dryer at buffalo.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/2/16 5:59 PM, Hedvig Skirgård wrote:
>> does not have regular academic funding (as far as I know) and is therefore subject to running as a private business with sellable resources etc.
> Just two comments: Many universities in the U.S. are private and thus do not have academic funding in the sense of government funding (except through research grants). And even public universities in the U.S. are increasingly run like businesses.
> 
> Matthew
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