Can Your BMI Predict How Long You’ll Live? Huffington Post Can Your BMI Predict How Long You’ll Live? Rexford Ahima of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about body mass index.
Why Business Schools Should Let Their Students Start Businesses The Wall Street Journal Why Business Schools Should Let Their Students Start Businesses Karl Ulrich of the Wharton School pens an op-ed on the importance of merging the entrepreneurial journey with a strong curriculum.
Colleges Raised $1.2 Billion in Donations for Sports in 2015 Chronicle of Higher Education Colleges Raised $1.2 Billion in Donations for Sports in 2015 Donations to capital campaigns for new facilities and commitments to cover more aid for athletes helped major-college athletic departments raise more than $1 billion in 2015, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Council for Aid to Education. It was the fourth time in the past five years that gifts for athletics had crossed the billion-dollar mark. But there are signs that donors may be reaching their limits, as overall athletics donations to the reporting institutions dipped slightly in 2015 from the year before.
Three Predictions About the Future of Higher Education The Washington Post Three Predictions About the Future of Higher Education Several new ratings reports from Moody’s Investor Service that landed in my e-mail inbox this week give plenty of clues about where higher education is headed in the United States. Moody’s examines the finances of more than 500 colleges and universities that issue debt through the public markets. While some might place little trust in the analyses of Moody’s or the other major bond-rating agencies after they were so wrong about the 2008 housing crisis, in higher education the ratings still provide a good indicator of the strengths and weaknesses of colleges and universities.
NSF Tells Universities to Prevent Harassment Inside Higher Ed NSF Tells Universities to Prevent Harassment The National Science Foundation this week issued a statement calling on the colleges and universities that receive its grants to do a better job of preventing and dealing with harassment in science -- and the agency has warned that it would terminate funding to institutions that do not take required steps to prevent and deal with harassment. The statement says that the NSF "holds responsible" colleges and universities that receive its funds.
The Power of an Empty Podium Huffington Post The Power of an Empty Podium Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences writes about the symbolic power behind an empty podium to represent the absence of Donald Trump at the Iowa Republican debate.
Are Academics Disproportionately Gay? Inside Higher Ed Are Academics Disproportionately Gay? Academic work is often solitary, but succeeding in the professoriate arguably requires social acumen. So is that why gay men and women are disproportionately represented among academics? A new study investigating the phenomenon of “occupational segregation” argues that certain jobs -- including that of professor -- are particularly appealing to gay men and lesbians for these reasons.
The Citadel Punishes Cadets In Case Involving KKK-like Costumes The Washington Post The Citadel Punishes Cadets In Case Involving KKK-like Costumes The Citadel has dismissed a cadet for one academic year and suspended two others for a semester for their role in an incident in which several cadets at the South Carolina school donned white pillowcases for a costumed event that many saw as evocative of the Ku Klux Klan. The punishment, reported Monday by the Post and Courier, concluded an investigation that began after the Dec. 9 incident was reported to the administration of the public military college. Images of white-hooded cadets circulated at the time on social media.
Customer Centricity With Wharton’s Dr. Peter Fader Forbes Customer Centricity With Wharton’s Dr. Peter Fader Peter Fader of the Wharton School talks about his research on customer centricity.
Former Dean Questions Costs of ‘No Excuses’ Charter Schools on Students of Color The Washington Post Former Dean Questions Costs of ‘No Excuses’ Charter Schools on Students of Color Joan Goodman of the Graduate School of Education defines “no excuses” charter schools.