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...alliance between Romney and Mankiw contrasts with the governor’s sharp attacks against his alma mater this past summer. Romney earned degrees in law and business from Harvard in 1974, but in the last few months, he has ripped into the University for hosting an Iranian leader and for using human embryos in stem-cell research...
...Cambridge have become more serious in their pursuit of alumni support, there is not as strong of a “culture of philanthropy” in the United Kingdom compared to that surrounding American universities. Ten percent of Cambridge and five percent of Oxford graduates donate to their alma mater, according to Bloomberg, compared with 40 percent for Harvard in fiscal year...
Harvard Management Company president and Chief Executive Officer Mohamed A. El-Erian, who holds a degree from Cambridge, also welcomed his alma mater’s decision...
...paid consultant to his political action committee. The church says it was just a courtesy call, one of many such meetings Holland holds. But the Globe also described e-mails from two administrators of the business school at Brigham Young University, the Mormon school that is Romney's alma mater, who used office computers to solicit support for the campaign. The two were told by B.Y.U.'s counsel to knock it off, although Romney later said it made sense to raise money from people he knows, including alumni...
...though his opportunities on the field have dwindled since, at least early on, people were quick to remind him of his alma mater on all matters, of an academic nature or otherwise...