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Robert Diamond, the former Barclays Plc chief, gave $6 million to finance a Colby College building that has become a focal point for student dissent over his role at the 199-year-old school in Waterville, Maine.
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Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman said she worried she wasn’t qualified 11 years ago when the search committee urged her to apply for the post. A renowned molecular biologist, Tilghman sought the advice of then Princeton President Harold T. Shapiro, who was retiring.
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Brown University President Ruth Simmons, the first black person to lead an Ivy League college, said she will step down at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year.
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Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman, the first woman to lead the Ivy League university, said she will retire next year.
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Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman’s retirement next June along with departures of the heads at Yale University and Dartmouth College mark a generational shift in leadership in the Ivy League.
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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.
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Brown University, the Ivy League school whose endowment grew to $2.5 billion last year, may boost voluntary tax payments to Providence, Rhode Island, after the city said it was nearing bankruptcy.
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Christina Hull Paxson, dean of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will become Brown University’s 19th president.
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Yale University President Richard C. Levin, the longest-serving leader in the Ivy League, said he will retire at the end of the current academic year.
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Providence, Rhode Island’s capital, had its rating cut by Standard & Poor’s even as it seeks to repair its finances by overhauling an ailing pension system and extracting bigger voluntary payments from Brown University.
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