Higher education can serve as an excellent bridge between cultures, as witness the increasing number of students from the Arab world now pursuing their studies in the United States. Active recruitment by universities including the University of Chicago, can help attract more students, but closer collaboration between individual schools and the Department of Education will [...]
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The University of Chicago’s global markets program has a new sponsor, Deere & Co, They have committed $450,000 over three years to the Chicago Graduate School of Business program.
Does everyone get to wear the green baseball caps?
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The 2007 annual report of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation has been released and it lists the top schools attracting Merit Scholars nationally. Harvard ranks first immediately followed by Yale, Princeton, and Stanford. The Top Tier schools dominate the rankings, with MIT, Duke, and Rice joining them in the top ten. The University of Michigan [...]
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At the risk of beating a dead horse, let’s point out a couple of other current reports. One suggests the creation of excise taxes on private endowments, especially those of institutions that don’t spend at least 5% of their corpus annually, while the other reports that some schools like the University of Chicago are running [...]
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Columbia professor Sudhir Venkatesh has published a new book on his sociological studies of gangs in the housing projects of Chicago entitled “Gang Leader for a Day. A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets.” Some of the work portrayed in this review seems more than a bit beyond normal academic research. Professor Venkatesh even was [...]
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Lest you might think that all the construction work is limited to New Haven, New York, or New Haven, here’s a story about a new performing arts complex being deveoped in the proximity of the University of Chicago complex. The Logan’s gift of $35 million was sufficient to kick-start this project, the total cost of [...]
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Crain’s Chicago Business discusses human capital development in a recent article. Their point seems well-taken; a society’s investment in education that often (but not always–there seem to be lingering exceptions) determines the quality of their future social and economic well-being. Specific mention here is made of the benefits provided by close links with University of [...]
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Those of you interested in the law should check out this novel weblog created by the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School. It’s an intriguing way to bring issues to the public eye without the filter of the traditional news media.
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Best wishes to all from the Top Tier Insider for a happy and healthy 2008.
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From an excellent online news letter, Insider Higher Ed, comes an interesting article on the impact of college student voters, especially on primary elections. The discussion centers on the upcoming Iowa Democratic primary, where Barack Obama is showing strength among college students, whom he urged to participate in the local caucuses. Apparently, the Clinton campaign [...]
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