Harvard, Princeton or Yale?

[Anonymous]

is anyone else gagging?

[Anonymous]

No, not at all. It's about time some of these elite institutionns have women heads. What ---you prefer men to be in charge of everything? BTW -- Meg Whitman, former Ebay CEO graduated Princeton as well. It believes in powerful women -- does that scare you?

[Anonymous]

Harvard's current president is a woman, so are the current presidents of Penn and MIT. Duke (Keohane) and University of Chicago (Gray) had women presidents a generation before. And that's just off the top of my head/major research universities. The list is much longer and starts much earlier if you look at liberal arts colleges.

[Anonymous]

There wont be enough women college presidents until there are at least 50% of all college/university presidents who are women. We are underrepresented in every field. Given that women now make up more than j50% of all college students -- we really need to have more leadership at the top -- same as poltics.

[Anonymous]

Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Princeton

[Anonymous]

The current president of Princeton (Shirley Tilghman) is also a woman.

[Anonymous]

Round and round and round we go.

[Anonymous]

That was my point.

Anonymous wrote:The current president of Princeton (Shirley Tilghman) is also a woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That was my point.

Anonymous wrote:The current president of Princeton (Shirley Tilghman) is also a woman.

What was your point?

[Anonymous]

My point was made on page 4 re: PU's woman Pres.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Harvard was much more intellectual and there was a stronger work ethic.

Princeton felt like a rich kids' school; Harvard felt like a smart, ambitious kids' school.

Beyond ethos, at a more strictly academic level, I think that the emphasis on undergrads lead to lowered standards. And, in some cases, a kind of lackey attitude on the part of certain faculty members (wow, look at the social status of the people whose kids I'm teaching! These are the future elite and I'm lucky to have their ear at this impressionable stage.)

Apparently, someone forgot to tell Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan that Princeton was a rich kids' school where those with a strong work ethic would be out of place.

[Anonymous]

Indeed pp. I'm so happy for them and for Princeton.

[Anonymous]

Um, have fun at your PUBLIC high school with lots of friends for life and fun memories, take lots of AP classes and get fives on the exams, enter a well-regarded state university as a second-year student and THEN try to save your $$$ for graduate study at an Ivy. Those with four-year undergraduate degrees simply don't get hired straight out of school like they used to in the 90s!

[Anonymous]

Oh please Debbie Downer.