Paul Joskow?  Didn't realize Yale had descended so far.

Gene

On Oct 12, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:

> 
> 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
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