On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > At some point I had kicked around the idea of a book on Bard > College, the 5th most expensive school in the country and my alma > mater, focusing on Leon Botstein's insatiable expansionist > appetite. I have chatted with people in the budget office here > (more technical than executive) about what makes a school follow > these expansionist imperatives. Why couldn't Bard have stayed a > nice little liberal arts school of 500 students? Why is Columbia > created a huge expansion in Manhattanville? I can understand the > logic behind Apple Inc. and General Motors but what kind of > Marxist economic principles explain the transformation of American > colleges and universities into such behemoths?
Same class, same consciousness, more or less. Don't know about Bard, but here are some members of the aptly named "Yale Corporation": http://yale.edu/about/corporation.html Byron Auguste, McKinsey (consulting) G. Leonard Baker, Sutter Hill Ventures (VC) Edward Bass (the Bass family, "environmentalist") Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner Donna Dubinsky, Numenta (tech entrepreneur, ex of Palm, Apple) Mimi Gardner Gates, wife of Bill's father (though not his mother) Charles Goodyear IV, investor and namesake of the tire magnate Paul Joskow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Neal Keny-Guyer, "social entrepreneur" Richard Levin, Yale's president and bourgeois economist Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo E. John Rice, Management Leadership for Tomorrow (preps "minorities" for biz school) Douglas Warner, JP Morgan Chase (ret.) Fareed Zakaria, bourgeois pundit I left off a couple of educators and do-gooders, but that's 14 of 17. Doug _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
