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Cornell’s Plan to Merge Hotel School Gets an Icy Reception
They call themselves “hotelies”: students and alumni of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, the world’s oldest undergraduate program devoted to the hospitality industry and, many say, the best. The school is considered the Harvard of hospitality programs, consistently topping best-of lists and rankings. Its graduates, school officials like to say, do not just run individual hotels, they own entire hotel chains or groups of restaurants.
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Every Student Gets a Mentor
John Williams thinks every student should have a mentor, someone who can act as counselor, sounding board, advice giver -- and maybe, if the student is lucky, someone who can open doors in the working world.
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New Fermentation Process Helps Penn Students Brew Future
David Issadore of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and students Shashwata Narain, Alexander David, and Siddharth Shah are featured for the students’ creation of a new fermentation process that can be used for beer production.
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MIT, China’s Ningbo Establish Supply Chain Education Center
Officials in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo, which houses the world’s largest port by cargo tonnage, are tapping the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to boost logistics education and research. The Ningbo local government and MIT said Tuesday they are working together to establish the Ningbo Supply Chain Innovation Institute China, or NSIIC, the sixth such research center run by MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics and the first of its kind in China. Others include centers in Colombia, Malaysia, Spain and the U.S.
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In Praise of Jargon
When I served in the Obama administration, some of my colleagues, who had recently been academics, wondered, with something like despair, how they could ever return to academic life. "After this," they wondered, "what could possibly be the point of going back to write academic articles?" When I asked them to elaborate, one of them sent me this quotation from Theodore Roosevelt: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
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Where Are the Minority Professors?
On average, 75 out of every 100 full-time faculty members at four-year colleges are white. Five are black, and even fewer are Hispanic. But that’s not the whole story. Among the higher ranks and at certain types of institutions — say, small, private master’s universities — the faculty is even less diverse. Using the drop-down menus below, you can find the racial and ethnic breakdowns of all types of professors and institutions. Click the bars to see which colleges employ the most faculty members in each group.
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Antonin Scalia’s Death Probably Won’t Affect ‘Fisher,’ but It Could Change the Future of Affirmative Action
The death on Saturday of Antonin Scalia, the sharp-tongued justice who shaped constitutional debates for nearly 30 years, could end up shifting the Supreme Court’s ideological balance. But his absence is unlikely to affect the highly anticipated ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the pending legal challenge to race-conscious college-admissions policies. In short, the math still seems to favor the court’s conservative wing.
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The Uncertain Path to Full Professor
They have national, even international reputations for groundbreaking research and scholarship. They write lauded books, win coveted prizes, draw graduate-student disciples. Their institutions and their disciplines tap them as leaders. They’re full professors, the elite class of the professoriate. But the path that scholars must follow to join their ranks is hardly clear-cut, which can make it more difficult for some people — particularly women and minorities — to get there.
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Building a Bridge Between Engineering and the Humanities
The engineering field is booming these days. Society regards it as an essential part of innovation, and colleges promote a degree in it as an entry into a fruitful, sustaining career. The humanities, by contrast, are in peril, with fewer students each year. We want to bridge this divide and help create a system where the two areas are not separate but are essential to each other. One of us began his studies in art and is now dean of an engineering school, and the other is an expert in Russian literature who originally planned to study physics.
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How Mount St. Mary’s Chose Simon Newman as Its President
When Simon P. Newman was interviewing for the presidency of Mount St. Mary’s University, he promised to bring the small Catholic institution in rural Maryland national exposure. Now he and the board are probably just wishing that would all go away.