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"Colleges with endowments larger than $500 million spent on average only 4.4 percent in 2007. For colleges with endowments greater than $500 million but less than $1 billion, that's the lowest rate since 1999, and for colleges with endowments greater th
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Not my Corporate Masters, but these students at my college are entering an invention competition with a new medical device.
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I'd vote for him.
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Jessa Crispin reviews a theologian's response to the "new atheist" screeds, and finds both sides inferior to William James.
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"Who's tougher than lady cops and waitresses? Not pirates!"
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"Page believes that studies like this, which present mathematical models of decision-making, show that initiatives to encourage cultural diversity in social, academic and institutional settings are not just exercises in politically correct posturing."
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It's been a few days since I linked to Inside Higher Ed, and the Internet itself was threatening to collapse. They're got a provocative article today about university endowments, though, so disaster is averted.
Given the size of the kinds of Federal bail-outs being discussed these days, Harvard University's endowment, almost $37 billion, by far the largest of any university in the world, sounds like chump change.
Where Most Needed worries about elite university endowment, and InsideHigherEd decides to be helpful
I went jean shopping this weekend. Actually, I went to the mall to return a t-shirt but ended buying a pair of expensive denim pants. What happened? I made the mistake of entering the fitting room. And then the endowment effect hijacked my brain. Let me explain.