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...also true that schools sense a certain license in their pricing. "To a large degree, colleges have set then costs according to what they think the market will bear," says Henry Levin, education and economics professor at Stanford, where the market is bearing up brilliantly. Despite a 60% jump since 1980, to an estimated $16,193, Stanford this year had 17,652 applicants for 2,506 freshman openings. But there is a sharp edge to the situation, and in Levin's case it has cut close to home. On his salary of more than $60,000, Levin finds he cannot...
Another sign that women have yet to be fully accepted as executives is a stubborn salary gap. Separate studies by Harvard, the Rand Corp., Stanford and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business have all documented the same trend. According to Mary Anne Devanna, who conducted the Columbia study released last year, female M.B.A.s entering the work force are paid the same starting salaries as men with the same qualifications (1985 average: $28,584). But within ten years, the women fall behind by 20% in pay, regardless of the company they work for or their jobs...
When Theismann lost the Heisman anyway, to Stanford Quarterback Jim Plunkett, he seemed unaware of the cringes he brought by labeling Plunkett's sightless mother a big factor, and has been blind to failings ever since. Because Miami Coach Don Shula favored Bob Griese, Draftee Theismann stopped off in Canada for three seasons before arriving in Washington eleven years ago as a punt returner. Neither Billy Kilmer nor Sonny Jurgensen quite qualified as athletes anymore, but they were still quarterbacks...
Adrift at Harvard, Morgan accepted a tenure offer from Stanford, and Bobo, who is her husband, decided to leave with her. The former Tishman and Diker professor of sociology and of African and African American studies, Bobo was one of the University’s premier sociologists and a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. He also served as acting chair of Af Am while Gates was on leave during the 2003-2004 academic year...
...combination of Stanford and Harvard would provide a West-Coast East-Coast one-two punch that would start to generate real pressure on other universities to follow suit,” Prendergast told the Stanford Daily...