U.S. institutions of higher education trace their origins primarily to British models, with an overlay of German influence especially in the organization of graduate education and research. Through the mid-nineteenth century most U.S. institutions were privately established, but thereafter (at least until very recently) the public sector has received much support. The long history of private es...

We study the existence of homophily (i.e. the tendency for people to make friends with people who are similar to themselves) with respect to trustworthiness. We ask whether two friends show similarly trustworthy behavior towards strangers, and whether this is anticipated by outsiders. We develop a simple model of bayesian learning in trust games and test the derived hypotheses in a controlled l...

IN March, 1911, Mr. Andrew Carnegie transferred to the trustees $1,000,000 of five per cent. bonds of the United States Steel Corporation, the first instalment of the gift of $5,000,000 offered in his letter of March 31, 1908. This amount brings the funds at present in the hands of the trustees to a total of somewhat over twelve millions of dollars, of which eleven millions are invested in five...

BACKGROUND Reforming the structure and improving care and service system, particularly at hospitals, are the main priorities of the health system. The board of trustees of the hospitals is the main proposed strategy in this field. Hospitals with board of trustees were created with the aim of improving accountability to the community and guaranteeing efficient management and attracting public su...

Compared to automated entities, human trustees have two distinct characteristics: 1) they are resource constrained (with limited time and effort to serve requests), and 2) their utility is not linearly related to income. Existing research in reputation-aware task delegation did not consider these two issues together. This limits their effectiveness in humanagent collectives such as crowdsourcin...

The Board of Trustees of the oldage and survivors insurance trust fund recently submitted to Congress its sixteenth annual report. The report shows trust fund operations for the fiscal year 1954-55 and, as required by statute, estimates of projected operations during the next 5 years, as well as an analysis of the fund’s long-range actuarial status. The Board is composed of the Secretary of the...

School board trustees play an important role in the education of children throughout Ontario. Using online survey Ontario residents, expectations school are explored detail. The included open-ended question that asked respondents what they see being performed by trustees, as well a whether preferred “delegate” governing model, which believes should represent constituents, or “trustee” render de...