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Google, Microsoft and General Electric came to Santa Clara, Calif., last weekend, and all but begged graduates of one of the world's top engineering schools to work for them. Google spent $200,000 to be the lead sponsor of the four-day-long reunion of 3,500 alumni. Microsoft's research center in Hyderabad came calling. The CEO of GE, Jeff Immelt, already employs 1,500 graduates and says he needs more. Stanford? MIT? Harvard? Nope. This was a gathering of graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology...
...Palo Alto to reverse that trend. Engineering in the U.S. needs a rebranding. IIT went through such a transformation after the tech bubble burst in 2001, when engineers - Indian and American alike- were being laid off by the thousands. That's when some of the school's most prominent alumni decided to turn IIT into a brand combining the brainpower of engineering with the excitement (not to mention the big money) of entrepreneurship, by playing up the accomplishments of IITans like Umang Gupta, CEO of the web services company Keynote and employee No. 17 of the company that later became...
Faust announced another interim appointment on Monday—Robert B. Cashion ’81, who will serve as acting vice president for alumni affairs and development. Faust acknowledged that planning for the multi-billion-dollar capital campaign can only go so far before she selects a permanent head of fundraising...
Faust said some of that momentum has come from donors, who have the campaign "very much on their minds." Faust has been steadily reaching out to prominent alumni since her appointment in February, and she said that it has not been hard to woo them back after several years of turmoil and transition at the University...
After amassing 1400 signatures from students, faculty, and alumni and delivering two letters to then-Interim President Derek C. Bok, the members of HDAG waited for the Harvard Corporation to respond to their concerns...