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Many college presidents at small and mid-size schools are dissatisfied with their board members’ participation in fundraising efforts, according to a survey released last week. The study, conducted by the Council of Independent Colleges and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, revealed that just 1 percent of college leaders polled feel their board members are sufficiently well-versed in the basics of fundraising. A previous survey from 1997-1998 concluded that 13 percent of trustees were considered to have the necessary knowledge. The survey respondents included 274 small or medium-sized independent schools?...
When Kosovo hired ID, it was trying to negotiate independence from Serbia, but because it was not yet a state, it wasn't allowed a seat at the table when the U.N. Security Council discussed the issue. ID tapped contacts inside the talks to keep Kosovars in the loop and made sure important points were addressed by, for example, helping draft letters to the negotiators. In February, Kosovo declared its independence and became an ID success story...
...clunky. As a result, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote on whether to trim the name to the more manageable “Department of English” at its next meeting on April 8. The proposal for the name change was passed yesterday by the Faculty Council, the 18-member governing body of the Faculty. The department itself already uses the shorter name, with several endowed professorships carrying the name “Professor of English” and the department Web site using the title “Department of English.” English professor...
...than those at other universities, according to former GSAS Dean Theda Skocpol. Only about 57 percent of the nation’s graduate students complete their Ph.D.’s within 10 years, though graduation rates in different disciplines vary greatly, according to a study released by the Council of Graduate Schools, the workshop’s co-sponsor. “It is certainly a continuing and growing concern of graduate deans,” said William B. Russel, dean of the graduate school at Princeton. “There are projects that are gathering more data...
...Zimbabwe's regeneration, says Michelle Gavin, Adjunct Scholar on Africa at the Council on Foreign Relations, "would have to be an all-hands-on-deck effort." International financial institutions and donors, which ended their involvement to protest the regime's corruption and human rights abuses, would be likely to step in with emergency programs to bring Zimbabwe back from the brink. And already international investors sense a bargain in the making. LonZim, an investment fund set up by the Lonrho mining group last December, has already raised $65 million to invest in Zimbabwe. "We're very bullish that Zimbabwe...