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...fact is, in the past year the U.S. has had a bilateral trade deficit with almost everyone and that is because the [federal] deficit is so big," Cooper, a former Yale University provost, said. "Perhaps that hints that there is something wrong with the U.S. and not with Japan...
Seymour started by killing his undergraduate business studies. "That was the riskiest step," concedes Provost Daniel DeNicola, "since one-third of the students were majoring in business." Communications studies suffered the same fate. Concurrently, Rollins revived its classics programs--Latin, Greek, languages, literature--and built a well-stocked new library. Results have been fast and favorable. Applications, despite an upcoming tuition of $8,591, have reached a 5-to-1 ratio for every freshman spot, while enrollment has been held to 1,370. And Rollins' still well-tanned but much more serious graduates have come into demand: last year every...
...education and medicine to pay their way. He stopped admitting virtually any warm undergraduate body that showed up, and began cutting enrollment from 12,000 toward 8,500, setting stiffer standards for entering freshmen. At the same time, Miami established schools of communications, architecture and international studies. Associate Provost James Ash openly admits that the purpose of the changes has been to sell the school to a higher grade of students. "It's not that we're virtuous," he says. "Marketing conditions force us to do this...
...just such a rare merging of the school'sneeds with the couple's that allowed Brown tooffer tenured positions to both of the Herlihys.One of Brown's medieval historians was retiring,and a Russian historian was taking anadministrative position, which meant that he wouldbe working only half-time, Associate Provost tothe Faculty John J. Quinn says. As David Herlihyis a medieval historian, and Patricia Herlihy is aRussian historian, "we thought it would beattractive to them. It happened to be a happycoincidence," says Quinn
Tufts University provost Sol Gittelman told the Boston Globe recently that the Medford-based school plans to develop a policy tailored to the university's needs. "We're walking carefully through this thing, trying to define the responsibility of the institution," he said...