I’m off to the mountains for the next two weeks. I hope to be thinking very strategically about the Institute as it heads into 2008 and the election cycle. From my standpoint, the key is aligning ourselves (from the standpoint of our scientific and educational activities) to the larger “weather” of the economy and government funding without compromising our scientific excellence. Not an easy task when that environment is as unstable as it appears to be right now.

As I’ve said before on this blog, ultimately we have to decide what not to do, given our finite size. Difficult, but tractable.

Jim