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  • Notre Dame Leads in Undergraduate Business School Ranking

    Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business holds the top spot in Bloomberg Businessweek’s ranking of undergraduate business schools for a fourth year, as students lauded its curriculum, liberal arts bent and focus on ethics.

  • Obama Confers With Energy, Oil Executives on Second-Term Agenda

    President Barack Obama has conferred with more than a dozen oil, natural gas and clean-energy executives, as well as academic advisers, at the White House in advance of an energy-policy speech in Illinois next week, spokesman Josh Earnest said.

  • Competitiveness Panel on U.S. Energy Revolution

    Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- David Danielson, U.S. Department of Energy's assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, Eric Isaacs, director of Argonne National Laboratory, Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and university vice chair of the Council on Competitiveness, Sean McGarvey, president of the Building & Construction Trades Department at the AFL-CIO, and Mayo Shattuck III, executive chairman of Exelon Corp., talk about energy independence and its impact on U.S. competitiveness. They speak at the National Competitiveness Forum in Washington. Mary Jordan of Washington Post Live moderates. (Source: Bloomberg)

  • Gee Takes Jets as $1.9 Million Payday Roils Ohio Students

    The Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee lives in a 9,630-square-foot Tudor Revival mansion that was renovated for him, featuring a great hall, pool, elevator and tennis court.

  • BP-to-Goldman Boards Become Hot Seats for College Presidents

    As much as higher education and corporate America would like to be engaged, college presidents are struggling to reconcile the demands and values of academia with shareholder skepticism about their boardroom commitments.

  • Apple, Inditex, Tolkien Estate: Intellectual Property

    a federal judge in Albany, New York, has recused himself from the patent suit against Apple Inc. related to the iPhone 4s’s Siri virtual assistant.

  • Double-Dippers Are All Wet Ignoring Yield Curve: Caroline Baum

    There have been whispers, or maybe it’s just wishful thinking, that the Federal Reserve might buy more long-term bonds, lowering interest rates and making housing more affordable. (You know that modified mortgage that didn’t work out so well? Have we got a deal for you!)

  • Private College Leader Pay Led by Kerrey Passes $1 Million

    Thirty-six presidents of private, nonprofit U.S. universities were paid more than $1 million in 2010, led by Bob Kerrey, the former Nebraska senator and president of the New School in New York, a study showed.

  • Executives Collect $2 Billion Running U.S. For-Profit Colleges

    Strayer Education Inc. , a chain of for-profit colleges that receives three-quarters of its revenue from U.S. taxpayers, paid Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert Silberman $41.9 million last year. That’s 26 times the compensation of the highest-paid president of a traditional university.

  • Yale Is Named No. 1 Seed in NCAA Hockey Tournament; North Dakota Is Second

    Yale University was named the overall top seed in college hockey’s national tournament.

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