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 > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
