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Why is it that the most business-minded people in academe, the boards of trustees and CFOs, seem to be enamored of giving away the resource that they actually charge for now, while being mostly indifferent to giving away the resource they are now paying for (twice)?
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When I feel I am not performing up to my capabilities at work, I review a list of quote [sic] for inspiration.
Billionaire and UVA donor Paul Jones, arguing that Jefferson would have endorsed the palace coup against Teresa Sullivan because “Jefferson was a change agent.”
This whole fiasco has resulted in a delightful reshuffling of ideological factions. The forces of “progress” and “dynamism,” represented here by a vapid hedge fund manager and his cronies, are up against the defenders of “incremental change” and institutional durability.
I want to rush to the barricades with all the lefty professors and chant things like “What do we want? Organic, incremental change! When do we want it? Steadily distributed across a prudently long time horizon!”
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1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Combine the best of human editorial value with time-saving and network-sensitive algorithmic assessment to find high-worth items from distributed communities of interest.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30…
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