11/15
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Video: When the President’s Presence Sends a Message
Laurie A. Leshin, president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is a space scientist and the first woman to lead WPI. She visited The Chronicle to talk about her nontraditional path to the presidency, the importance of female leaders in higher education, and what makes the high-pressure job of college president worth it. “Evidence shows that we need role models, we need critical mass, we need people to see what's possible,” Ms.
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Banning Booze
The next few months could be a more lucrative time for bars in Hanover, N.H. The home of Dartmouth College is not especially known for its bar scene, with many students choosing instead to drink on campus at fraternity parties.
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U. Md. Student Government Endorses Demand That Byrd Stadium Be Renamed, Citing Racist Legacy
Colin Byrd hates the name. A second-generation “terrapin” — his father graduated from the University of Maryland in 1978 — he’s leading the campaign to pull the name “Byrd” off of the university’s football stadium, a proposal the student government endorsed in a 13-2-2 vote Wednesday night. A coalition of student groups says Byrd Stadium’s namesake, H.C.
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Penn State May Settle Another Sandusky Lawsuit
Pennsylvania State University this week is looking to end one of the remaining lawsuits filed by a victim of the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal, according to sources. The school's board of trustees is scheduled to meet Thursday morning to discuss "potential settlements" and possibly vote, said spokeswoman Lisa Powers.
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Penn Study Finds Faster Learners Don’t Overthink
Danielle Bassett of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is highlighted in a front-page story for leading a study revealing that differences in neural activity change learning rates.
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Villanova Appoints Its First Provost
Villanova University on Tuesday appointed its first provost, Patrick G. Maggitti, who currently serves as dean of the business school. Maggitti will take over on Aug. 1 as the university’s chief academic officer and second-in-command of the Main Line Catholic university, which enrolls more than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
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M.B.A. Programs That Get You Where You Want to Go
With some 13,000 graduate schools of business across the globe, the M.B.A. degree has clearly become a commodity. Even among elite schools, courses and case studies are pretty much water from the same well (i.e., finance, operations, marketing, accounting). So how do you choose? By using the rankings? Which ones? The Economist’s? Businessweek’s? The Financial Times’s?
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Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, Feminist Hero, Eliminates Salary Negotiations for New Employees
Adam Grant and Matthew Bidwell of the Wharton school comment on how men tend to negotiate more aggressively than women and how a ban on salary negotiations could affect Reddit’s strategy to poach employees.
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UC San Diego Gets $100 Million Pledge for Business School
The University of California at San Diego received a $100 million pledge for its graduate school of management to help recruit faculty and provide scholarships. The school is already named for the donors, Evelyn and Ernest Rady, who gave $30 million in 2004 to create the Rady School of Management and almost $10 million more since then.
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Accepted to Every Ivy League School: How Did This Teenager Reach His Goal? (+Video)
Harold Ekeh of Long Island, New York, just accomplished the Ivy League sweep. He received acceptance letters from all eight schools. Coming to New York from Nigeria at 8-years-old, Mr. Ekeh has become a prime example of what it takes to get into the Ivy League: passion.