The strike of NYU graduate assistants continues, after administration officials withdrew their threat that if the strike didn't end by December 5, protestors would lose their 19,000/year...
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(Source: Vanderbilt University)Working for a "charity" such as a college or university dooms one to a life of penury, right? No, not if you're a university president. Consider this from...
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(Charles Eliot, Harvard president, 1869-1909)This week's Chronicle of Higher Education features a series of articles on the college presidency. Based on a survey of presidents the Chronicle...
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(Source: College of William and Mary)"Hey, Justice O'Connor, you just wrapped up a 24-year stint on the Supreme Court. What are you going to do next?" "I'm going to William and...
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Call it damage control. Call it a sincere gesture. Call it a PR ploy. However you slice it, it's still $50 million. That's how much Harvard will commit over the next decade to promote gender...
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(Source: University of Pennsylvania)Those clever Quakers are at it again. Every year, student journalists at The Daily Pennsylvanian (I was one myself) concoct crazy---but marginally...
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Facing mounting criticism and a vote of no confidence from his own faculty, Harvard president Larry Summers announced his resignation today before a stunned crowd in Massachusetts Hall. "I...
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For the first time in Harvard's long history, the faculty---of arts and sciences, that is---voted no confidence in its president. Larry Summers, following his well-publicized statements about...
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It's no secret that today's university president is more fund raiser than philosopher king, more businessman (or woman) than academician, more lobbyist than teacher. At the same time,...
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I bet Larry Summers wishes he never attended the NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce last month. At the very least, he no doubt regrets his comments about...
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(Source: University of Hawaii)It seems the honeymoon in Hawaii is over, and it's ended in divorce. Evan Dobelle, the University of Hawaii's president since 2001, was fired by the...
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