By YCharts
If — after four years at an Ivy League school, or some fine public institution ? your genius offspring is lying on the couch and, when pressed, assuring you there are no good jobs to be had, pass the URL to this encouraging jobs survey along to the little ingrate: …read more
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“God is not a racist,” says theologian and Christian philosopher Dr. William Lane Craig in response to an Ivy League professor’s controversial blog post in which she argues that George Zimmerman’s acquittal is reason to believe her god is different from white America’s god. …read more
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By VERONICA LINARES, UPI.com
Anthea Butler, an Ivy League professor, wrote that she believed God was a “white racist god with a problem” following jury’s verdict in the George Zimmerman trial. …read more
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Princeton University is promoting its current No. 2 administrator, Provost Christopher Eisgruber, to succeed Shirley Tilghman as president.
Eisgruber, a 1983 Princeton graduate, is a former Rhodes Scholar and a constitutional scholar, who has spent the last nine years as Princeton’s provost, or chief academic officer. He will become Princeton’s 20th president effective July 1. Tilghman announced last fall she planned to step down after 12 years in office.
The announcement closes out a year of exceptional turnover among the presidencies of Ivy League and other elite universities, with Yale, Brown, Dartmouth and MIT all selecting new leaders within the last 12 months. Yale also recently promoted its provost to president.
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By Alyce Lomax, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
There are many reasons corporations deteriorate over the long haul, taking shareholder value and stakeholder well-being down with them. When it comes to true business health and fixing structural problems, many issues could be alleviated by focusing on a factor that is too often overlooked or underestimated: shaking up boards of directors.
Great work if you can get it
The spotlight’s seldom focused squarely on directors’ role in business decisions, from CEO pay to business-killing initiatives and short-term thinking. Let’s change that.
Exactly who these people are and what they’re doing should be of utmost concern to investors. Too often, boards are manned by long-standing directors who happen to be highly paid CEOs of other companies. Just for starters, those who head up compensation committees easily have a conflict of interest, since using peer groups tends to float all CEO compensation boats higher.
In recent years, directors have rarely taken a stand against managements’ decisions. They have little incentive to do so, given the benefits and even psychology of remaining friendly. Who wants to fight all the time, after all? It’s a hard road to walk, even if it’s the right thing to do.
The tragedy is that these directors have been charged to look out for shareholder interests; in essence, that’s what we shareholders are paying them for.
Take a New York Times piece earlier this week. Wall Street companies have conducted some pay cuts and layoffs that have made headlines, but big banks’ boards of directors are still doing quite well.
The Times used Goldman Sachs as a particular example, citing it as topping data firm Equilar’s list of well-compensated boards. The annual average pay for its directors was an astounding $488,709 in 2011. Several directors’ compensation for the job exceeded a half million dollars.
To give a little context, the median U.S. household income near the end of 2011 was between $49,434 and $51,413. That’s for entire households, not for one part-time job that isn’t usually even the individual’s core, most pressing career responsibility.
Think outside the check box
Do directors even have to fit into the current definition of a board member? These “highly qualified” individuals often boast Ivy League, “impressive” educations on their resumes, not to mention CEO jobs at other public companies or major positions in the government sector, but think about it. Most are white, male, older, wealthy — in other words, many of them probably don’t walk in the real world with most of us Americans.
From an investing and business standpoint, we face a very real risk of lacking diverse thinkers with robust insight and perspective. That’s a major disservice to long-term stockholdings and company strength.
The dearth of women and minorities in corporate boardrooms underlines these failings. For example, women are making progress, but still have a very long way to go. These walls and ceilings are utterly illogical. For example, Urban Outfitters currently has no women on its board, despite the fact that women …read more
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Authorities are releasing video believed to be missing Ivy League student Sunil Tripathi, WPRI reports.
Tripathi, a student at Brown University in Providence, R.I., had requested time off from Brown and was granted approved leave, but remained a student at the university.
Police are hoping the video will provide new clues to help find Tripathi, who was last seen by his housemate two weeks ago.
According to WPRI, the video image shows a tall, skinny man wearing a black cap, dark jacket and jeans walking south on Brook Street — not far from from Tripathi’s home. The video was recorded at 1:33 a.m. on March 16, about 20 minutes after his last recorded computer activity.
Tripathi apparently left his apartment without his wallet and cellphone.
According to a statement from Brown, the FBI has joined the Providence Police Department and the Brown University Department of Public Safety in the investigation, which has expanded to New York, Boston, Connecticut and Philadelphia.
“Typically, two reasons people don’t take the normal things they take with them is because they’re stepping outside to talk to somebody, they’re going half a block away, or they’re not coming back,” ABC News consultant and former FBI Agent Brad Garrett told “Good Morning America.”
Meanwhile, Tripathi’s brother and sister, Ravi Tripathi and Sangeeta Tripathi, told WPRI that several area businesses have been reviewing their surveillance videos for any signs of the 22-year-old. Tripathi’s siblings have been searching the Providence, R.I., area in hopes of uncovering new leads in the search for their missing younger brother.
“We’ve just been literally walking every road we saw him walk. Walking in every nook and cranny, talking to every local business, and really trying to move forward,” Sangeeta Tripathi told ABC News.
Family members say the Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi Facebook page has generated more than 1.2 million unique views in its first week.
Sunil Tripathi was last seen wearing a pair of blue jeans, a black Eastern Mountain Sports ski jacket, glasses and a Philadelphia Eagles wool hat. He is 6 feet tall and weighs 130 pounds.
Anyone in the Providence area who wishes to help in the search for Tripathi should email helpusfindsuniltripathi@gmail.com .
By Jeff Bercovici, Forbes Staff
Chris Hayes isn’t your typical cable news talking head. For one thing, while he’s a white guy, he’s still got a decade to burn before middle age. He’s also suspiciously mild-mannered, more given to nuance-riddled meditations than to smug epigrams. When, last summer, he experienced the pundit’s rite of passage that is the Massive Internet Overreaction To An Ill-Considered Remark, it was for an utterance so qualified and pre-apologetic, it actually ended with the words “…but maybe I’m wrong about that.” But MSNBC has hit paydirt before departing from the established formula, most notably with its biggest star, Rachel Maddow, who also had to overcome doubts that she was too smart for the dumbed-down precincts of 24-hour cable news. Come Monday night, Hayes will be lead-blocking for Maddow, his sometime mentor, with a new 8 p.m. show, “All In With Chris Hayes.” On Thursday afternoon, he took a few days out of launch preparations for a chat. FORBES: Your premiere is four days away. How are you feeling? CHRIS HAYES: It feels great. Starting something new is always so much work because you’re creating both the product and the process to create the product. You’re making the widget and the factory. So it’s intense, but it’s exciting. Your old show was called “Up.” The new one is “All In.” You really like the prepositions, huh? At one point in the naming process, someone came into my office and I literally was sitting there staring at the Wikipedia entry for “English prepositions.” So, yes, I do. “Let’s call the show ‘Athwart!’” “All in” is a poker term. Do you play? I’m not a poker player but I liked the idea of total, full, un-back-outable commitment and of everybody being included. A five-character show title is also nice and Twitter-friendly. Was that a consideration? Not explicitly, but I’m sure it was lurking in the back of all our minds. “Up” has gotten a lot of praise for being more thoughtful and geared to a long attention span than your typical 24-hour cable news show, and for representing a wider range of viewpoints. Is that something you can do in primetime? No, we’re gonna be thoughtless and knee-jerk. Yeah, you can. Obviously there are certain thing you have to do differently. It won’t be two hours long and the conversations will be shorter. But in some way being shorter is a benefit in that you want to give things the amount of time they deserve and not more than that. When MSNBC named you its new 8 p.m. host, one of the common reactions was that the channel’s lineup is now pretty homogeneous. I believe the preferred formulation is “East Coast Ivy League liberal intellectuals.” Well, Rachel [Maddow] is from the west coast, and Stanford [where Maddow went to college] is not Ivy League. Only an Ivy Leaguer would make that distinction. Ha. I genuinely don’t know how to answer that. At this point in our lives none of us can control where …read more
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Brown University says the search for a missing student who was last seen on campus a week ago is expanding outside Providence to Boston, Connecticut, New York and Philadelphia.
Sunil Tripathi is a philosophy major at Brown who grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He has been living in Providence since 2008. He was on approved leave from the Ivy League school.
Brown spokeswoman Darlene Trew Crist says in a statement Saturday that Providence and Brown police departments are leading the missing person investigation.
The search for Tripathi over the last six days focused on the greater Providence area. It involved distributing flyers, searching various neighborhoods and soliciting for information through social media sites.
Tripathi is 6 feet tall and was last seen wearing blue jeans, a black ski jacket, glasses and a wool hat.
By The Huffington Post News Editors
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — This time every year, some Ivy League school nudges its way into the NCAA tournament, giving basketball fans a feel-good reminder that success on the hard court and in the classroom really can go hand in hand.
This year at Harvard, however, that story has a twist.
A season after making the tournament for the first time since 1946, the Crimson return — but only after weathering an academic scandal that cost them two key players and made their script read like those of so many others when March Madness rolls around: Program messes up, program pays its penance, program succeeds despite its imperfections.
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A former Ivy League professor who pleaded guilty to beating his wife to death as she wrapped Christmas presents is set to be paroled.
Rafael Robb was sentenced in December 2008 to 5 to 10 years in prison in the December 2006 death of his wife, Ellen, in suburban Philadelphia. Robb pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in 2007.
Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman says she recently learned that Robb is set to be released on parole later this month. She says she’s asked the state parole board to reconsider the decision.
Ferman says she thinks the board didn’t consider all issues surrounding the case.
Robb, who was once a tenured economics professor at University of Pennsylvania, said in court that the killing happened in “a moment of madness.”
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