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...Mellon Foundation has pledged $750,000 over the next five years to the center, which in recent years has been plagued by shrinking budgets...
...America's business-school students head to class this fall, they are being greeted by an extraordinarily large number of new deans. More than 100 schools, including Wharton, the University of California at Berkeley and Carnegie-Mellon, have installed new directors, many of whom intend to change curriculums and set new priorities...
...Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where much of the once mighty American steel industry lies rusting, Business School Dean Elizabeth Bailey, 44, had barely moved into her office before she began looking for ways to stress real business problems instead of mathematical models. Says she: "We want to find practical uses for the models. We don't just want ideas. We want ways to fit those ideas to current industry problems." Bailey also plans to enhance Carnegie-Mellon's program in robotics in order to prepare students for the factory of the future. A member of the Civil...
...teachers attending the seminars received $1550 stipends for four-week seminars, $1840 for five weeks and $2125 for six weeks. Those sums should increase next year because of the Mellon grant, Herzman said...
...next year the seminar program will be expanding from 15 to 52 seminars nationwide as a result of a $50,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation and additional federal funds. Ronald Herzman, program coordinator, said recently...