Like any president of a large university, John Hennessy is subject to a relentless schedule of breakfasts, meetings, lunches, speeches, ceremonies, handshakes, dinners, and late-night calls alerting him to an injury or a fatality on campus.
The president of a London university atheist society has resigned over a row about an image of the Prophet Muhammad.
Derek Bok, a former president of Harvard University, complained in a book published in 1993 that the brightest young students were no longer choosing medicine or the social sciences, let alone academic life: they were going into business.
The specter of the president of a major national university running in abject fear, and forming a blue ribbon committee that one suspects has as its mission to pre-emptively run up the white flag to the OCR investigators, is indeed very disturbing and does not augur well for the vibrancy and independence of higher education.
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These, says James Duderstadt, a former president of the University of Michigan, could provide the basis for a new prosperity, especially for his own car-crashed state.
In 1991 Christopher Whittle, a media entrepreneur, and Benno Schmidt, a former president of Yale University, founded the Edison Project, with plans to create a chain of 1, 000 for-profit schools.
"It's a name school looking to the private sector, " said Brian Dinerstein, president of Sterling University Housing, a large developer of off-campus housing.
Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University and a Newell Rubbermaid director since 1999, was awed.
That was back when Father Hesburg (ph) was the president of this university during a tenure that in many ways defined the reputation and values of Notre Dame.
He's a former assistant secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton and now a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Dr. Raymond Woosley is vice president of health sciences and a professor of pharmacology at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
For instance, Raymond Woosley , vice president of health research at the University of Arizona and a noted pharmacologist, has said that the antihistamine Chlor-Trimetron was originally approved not based on a clinical trial, but by a survey of doctors.
"I think the drug companies are going to do some big, expensive trials, but until they're done with real objectivity, I worry, " says Raymond Woosley , vice president of health sciences at the University of Arizona and a noted drug-safety expert.
"It is disturbing that our current players must pay a penalty for the academic performance of students no longer enrolled, " University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst said in a statement.
He named as president his son Warren, a lawyer who was vice president of Ross University for 23 years and ran most of its operations, admissions and marketing.
Summers is a former president of Harvard University and served as treasury secretary under Bill Clinton.
He spoke with some venerable, well-known figures of like LDP politician and short-tenured prime minister Shinzo Abe, journalists Yoichi Funabashi and Akira Kojima, and a vice president of Keio University.
"I don't consider these works of art, but edutainment, " says Masanori Aoyagi, a vice president at the University of Tokyo and an Otsuka Museum director.
The president of Birkbeck, University of London, says higher fees and a failure to communicate new rights to government loans for part-time students has led to a 40% drop in England.
The visit to Kyoto also featured the signing of a Cooperation Agreement with Professor Hiroshi Matsumoto, President of Kyoto University, for the establishment of an internship programme to strengthen UNESCO's action -- "through many talented young women and men coming from one of the world's leading institutions of higher learning, a haven for Nobel Prize winners and Fields medallists" said Irina Bokova.
Mr. Sunstein, a friend of President-elect Barack Obama from their faculty days at the University of Chicago law school, will mark a sharp departure for the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
"This is a really politically sensitive question, " says Ji Baocheng, president of Renmin University and an NPC member, who filed a petition this year, for the fourth time, calling for a review of the policy.
Brody, president of the university, said in a message Wednesday to the campus community.
David O'Connell, the president of The Catholic University of America, was hosting the pope for a large meeting with bishops.
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Pericles Lewis, a professor of English and comparative literature at Yale, was tapped Wednesday to head Yale-NUS as president, while a professor from the National University of Singapore, Lai Choy Heng, was named vice president.
"If you switch from Coke to water, that's easy, " says Elizabeth Mayer-Davis, a professor at the University of North Carolina and a recent president of the American Diabetes Association.
Cuomo wouldn't answer questions after his presentation, held at the nanoscience college of the state University of New York in a space where President Barack Obama was a cheerleader one year ago for states seeking a place in the competitive high-technology economy.
There will be "watch parties" at Iowa State University, in a state the president visits Wednesday, the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where Mr. Obama was Tuesday morning, and campuses throughout the country.
In general, side effects of Byetta can include diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting, which may contribute to changes in kidney function, says Dr. Richard Hellman, the past president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and a clinical professor at the University of Missouri--Kansas City School of Medicine.
Oxygen, though, is only the beginning, according to Paul Spudis, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University who was a member of the president's vision commission (yes, there really was one).
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