It’s truly frightening how far someone can get by stealing another person’s identity. The Secret Service has reported the arrest near Chicago of Esther Reed, who is alleged to have assumed the identity of Brook Hensen, a South Carolina resident who has been missing for almost a decade. It is further alleged that Reed then [...]
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According to the AP, Barnard’s board of trustees has named Debora L. Spar, a Harvard Business School professor, tp be their next president. She will be the institution’s eleventh chief executive.
Get more information from… Barnard College Names New President – Forbes.com
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The latter years of the 20th Century saw many changes for the women’s colleges associated with Ivy League universities. How will these programs retain their identity and historic significance in the face of mergers with the larger institutions? A case in point is the women’s college, founded in 1898 by Columbia president Fredrick Barnard. Certainly [...]
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Maybe this should be filed under “Told you so”, but the Teachers College of Columbia University has created a web-based television station for teachers and students called After Ed. This sounds like a wonderful idea that takes advantage of the virtually limitless source of high quality content that is available from great universities, but to [...]
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And just to prove a point, UNC has just announced the end of its eight-year capital campaign in which it raised $2.38 billion, an extraordinary amount for a public university. Congratulations to UNC and also its many supporters for such an outstanding accomplishment, but be aware that the race is by no means over. Three [...]
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It’s easy to think of “study abroad” as being an experience reserved for American’s attending classes overseas to learn more about other cultures. In truth, this narrow definition excludes another important category of such experiences, namely those of foreign students coming to our schools to encounter our culture in a more direct way than is [...]
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It was P.T. Barnum who said something like, “I don’t care what you say about me, just spell the name right.” That can’t be true of the accompanying article that reports the discovery of a small arsenal in the Brooklyn home of Columbia faculty member Michael Clatts, a medical anthropologist, and his roommate. That this [...]
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According to the UVa campus paper, the University of Virginia has wrested the top spot amongst highly rated universities with regard to enrollment of African American students. Columbia University was second followed by UNC and then Vanderbilt. It will be interesting to see how these numbers change as the result of the more favorable financial [...]
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in spite of the remarkable increase in applications at the Top Tier schools, there seems to be some turnover in the leadership of admissions offices around the Ivies. The University of Pennsylvania has just announced the appointment of a new admissions dean, Eric Furda, an alumnus of that university. Currently Mr. Furda is the vp [...]
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Although it appears that Columbia University has won its battle to expand its campus in New York City, opponents still point to the historic structures that will be lost in the necessary land clearing prior to new facility development. It seems to the Insider that while opponents do have a case, an absolute ban on [...]
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