当前美国经济不景气已影响到教育界。由于经费不足,一些名牌大学纷纷考虑撤销或合并部分科系并裁员,以节省开支。大名鼎鼎的耶鲁大学便是其中之一。按照计划,耶鲁大学的语音系和经营系将被取消,3个独立的工程系将合并为1个,物理系和应用物理系在缩小规模之后也将合并,社会学系将裁员40%。 The current US economic downturn has affected the education sector. Due to lack of funds, some prestigious universities have considered withdrawing or merging some departments and laying off their staff to save money. The famous Yale University is one of them. According to the plan, Yale’s Department of Phonetics and Management will be canceled, three separate engineering departments will be merged into one, and the Department of Physics and Applied Physics will be merged after the downsizing, and the Sociology Department will lay off 40%.