July 26, 2007

Smithsonian's Recovery From Governance Scandal Has Been Too Slow

By Pablo Eisenberg

Four months after Lawrence Small, secretary of the Smithsonian, resigned in disgrace, nothing much seems to have changed at the institution, despite last month's release of two reports that were supposed to provide a road map for change.

The Smithsonian's Board of Regents is still intact. Two members of the board's audit committee, which was especially derelict in its oversight of Mr. Small, are serving on a committee the regents appointed to review and improve the governance of the

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