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...public understands that they’re behaving properly,” del Campo said. Harvard’s affiliate institutions, such as Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, conduct separate technology transfer agreements because they are financially independent entities. Caltech, Cornell, MIT, Stanford, the University of California, the University of Illinois-Chicago and Urbana Champaign, the University of Washington, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Yale University, and the Association of American Medical Colleges also endorsed the document. —Laurence H. M. Holland contributed to the reporting of this story...
...process that is now quite secretive. If universities want to make “holistic” admissions decisions, that is certainly their prerogative. In fact it is probably the only way to build a campus that doesn’t stink of depression as a quick visit to Caltech or MIT will attest...
...funding research that often doesn’t get funding,” explained a spokesman for Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences, Michael P. Rutter. Since its inception, the foundation has opened 10 institutes around the world dedicated to furthering research in the three areas, including sites at Stanford, Caltech, MIT, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, and the University of Chicago, according to the foundation’s website. “We identify possible sites by asking scientists, people in the know, what the centers of excellence of research in these three areas are,” foundation spokesman Das explained...
...much harder thing.” At Cooper Union, meanwhile, school officials readily acknowledge that a legacy-preference policy would boost fundraising. “If we had legacy preference, we could buy a parcel and build a gym,” a Cooper vice president tells Golden. For Caltech and Cooper Union, pure meritocracy carries a high cost...
...stems from other motives, such as gratitude for their own education or desire to promote research or teaching in an overlooked field.” That’s a sweet thought—but it’s utterly unsupported by evidence. Eschewing legacy preference has left Caltech with an alumni giving rate that’s 15 percent below Harvard’s and 29 percent lower than Princeton’s, according to 2004-2005 data. Cooper Union’s alumni giving rate is 11 percent below Harvard’s, and Berea?...