Family Bonding with Universities One justification offered for legacy admissions policies at universities is that that they bind entire families to the university. Proponents maintain that these policies have a number of benefits, including increased donations from members of these families. We use a rich set of data from an anonymous selective research institution to investigate which types of...

Recent studies of urban scaling show that important socioeconomic city characteristics such as wealth and innovation capacity exhibit a nonlinear, particularly a power law scaling with population size. These nonlinear effects are common to all cities, with similar power law exponents. These findings mean that the larger the city, the more disproportionally they are places of wealth and innovati...

Nowadays universities in the entire world are the origin of innovative ideas and thoughts. Therefore, many scientific, cultural, social, and political developments are stemmed from them. Universities like any other organizations require performance evaluation and measurement in order to use their limited resources optimally and have more efficiency. Since the nature of a university is the type ...

With the development of society, Internet era is gradually coming, its arrival to traditional field education has 
 brought new opportunities and challenges. Educators have obligation understand trend talent demand this era. From perspective financial accounting management teaching in colleges universities, technology should be applied more, so as improve quality universities. The main con...

Thank you for this invitation to share with you some thoughts on major issues facing Australian universities. Continuing development is very important for all staff, including for administrators who are crucial to much of universities’ successful operation. Joint staff development programs such as the one we are starting this morning managed by Universities Australia seem to me ideal in both po...

Research universities have made enormous contributions to the field of medicine and the treatment of human disease. Alone or in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies, academic researchers have added to the store of knowledge that has led to numerous life science breakthroughs. A new chapter may be opening for academic researchers, however, that could lead to a darker tale. 'The mouse that...

The teaching of statistics in the U.S. and Japanese universities is briefly reviewed. It is found that H. Hotelling's articles and subsequent relevant publications on the teaching of statistics have contributed to a considerable extent to the establishment of excellent departments of statistics in U.S. universities and colleges. Today the U.S. may be proud of many well-staffed and well-organize...

In the spring of 1996, I was the Rolf Sammet Guest Professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main in Germany. One afternoon, I accompanied one of the chemistry department s professors to a part of the city of Frankfurt called Sachsenhausen to enjoy Ebbelwoi, a German hard cider. As we sat in the sun, relaxing, the conversation turned to a comparison between life in Americ...

EUCIP (EUropean Certification of Informatics Professionals) is a pan-European qualification scheme for people entering the IT profession and for IT professionals wishing to assess their professional development. This paper presents the experiences of the Italian Universities in the framework of the EUCIP programme. We illustrate both the institutional perspective of the Universities and the per...