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By STEVE GIEGERICH, AP Education Writer
While tuition costs keep on rising, so do the salaries of college presidents.
A survey of college presidential salaries revealed Monday that the compensation packages given the leaders of four private universities in the 2002 fiscal year topped $800,000.
The Chronicle of Higher Education's annual salary report also said that the top officials at 12 public schools are scheduled to earn more than $500,000 in 2003-04.
With an annual package of salary and benefits totaling $891,400, Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., was the top earner among college presidents last year, the Chronicle said.
The Chronicle said that doesn't include Jackson's compensation for serving on eight corporate boards, which adds an additional $591,000 to her annual income.
Closely behind Jackson on the list of top earners among private school presidents were Gordon Gee, the president of Vanderbilt University in Nashville ($852,000), the University of Pennsylvania's Judith Rodin ($845,474) and Arnold Levine of Rockefeller University ($844,600), who has since resigned for health reasons.
The Chronicle said the $677,500 that will be paid in salary and benefits in 2003-04 to the University of Michigan's Mary Sue Coleman puts her atop the list of public institution leaders.
Coleman is followed on the public schools list by University of Delaware President David Roselle, who will earn $630,654 this academic year and Richard McCormick, who will receive $625,000 to head New Jersey's Rutgers University.
During the 2001-02 fiscal year, the Chronicle said, the chief executives of 27 private schools received compensation in excess of $500,000.
David Harpool, the president of Argosy University in Chicago, criticized college boards that approve exorbitant salaries for their presidents while saddling students with tuition increases topping 10 percent.
"We don't apply any common sense business principles to these decisions," said Harpool, the author of "Survivor College," a book that criticizes nonessential spending on college campuses.
The Chronicle compiles its data on the salaries paid the presidents of private institutions by reviewing nonprofit tax forms filed last year by each school. The current salaries of state college and university presidents are determined by reviewing both nonprofit tax forms and the public budgets filed by each institution.
Each elevator is designed with an aerodynamic body, pressurization and emergency braking systems, and the world's first triple-stage anti-overshooting system. The cost for each elevator is over $US 2 million.
Um, what is a "triple-stage anti-overshooting system"? To keep elevators from going past target floors?
This is funny, because I know somebody who's switching FROM Ford:
Okay, now lets make Ford like Microsoft...
My Ford has an oil leak. Ford doesn't call to tell me to tell me there's
a big problem with oil leaks and a fix is available, but I find out from a
guy on the Internet that they will fix it for free. I get my car back
home from the shop and the next day there's oil all over the floor.
I call Ford and they tell me they'll fix it next week.
A month later a repair is available. On the way home from the shop
I crash into a tree because the oil leak fix conflicted with the brake
system. Ford says, yeah, that's been happening... there should be
a fix for the fix next week. I spend more than the car is worth rebuilding
it, (Ford said I should have test driven it before I drove it home.) but can't
really drive it safely until the fixed fix is available. I get home from
the shop without getting in an accident (after the fixed fix) and as I pull
into my driveway my neighbor says, Hey bill, did you know you've got a
pretty bad oil leak? Disgusted, I take my Ford to the dealer and want to
buy another car, preferably non Ford. He informs me that all the dealers
in the area carry only Fords. But, he says, the newest, fanciest, most
expensive Ford has been completely redesigned and is guaranteed not
to have oil leaks.
Without much choice, I tell the dealer I'll take the new Ford and would
like to trade in my old Ford. He informs me the old one isn't worth
anything, but for a few dollars off he can give me an upgrade. I just
have to keep my old Ford at home and every time I want to start the
engine of my new Ford, I have to put the key in the old one first. This
works okay for awhile. (Although I have to have the new Ford rebuilt as
well because I'm T-boned by a guy in an older Ford that just repaired his
oil leak.) A little bit later I come out and my new Ford has an oil leak!
I call Ford and they tell me there will be a fix next week. The fix is
available
in a couple of months and I take it in for repair. Remembering my brake
incident, I stomp on the brakes several times hard, check the lights, washers
and air bag. It all works well. I try to drive home but can't get there
because
the interstate is blocked with leaky Fords that have been T-boned by leaky
Fords with bad brakes. I try to pass the time by listening to the radio...
but it
doesn't work any more. Since I can't get home, I head back to the dealer to
complain about the radio. They tell me they can get the radio working but the
"work-around" will kill my rear defogger. If I wait another 6 months
though, a new
model is being released that won't have oil, brake or radio problems...
I get angry and drive out of town to a dealership I heard about that can supply
me with a custom configured *NIX Automobile. The dealer is cool but the new
*NIX is way harder to drive than the Ford. I like it though and decide to
buy one.
Unfortunately, there is some kind of law or agreement that says I have to pay
for a Ford (even though I don't get it) as well a fee to have my new *NIX setup
and delivered.
At this point I give up with the dealers, go buy the book "Rebuilding your Ford
into a *NIX in 21 days", do so, and live happily ever after. ( Later, I
have a good
laugh when a Ford rep comes on TV and tells the world that the latest Ford
fiasco could have been avoided if all owners would just give a spare set of
house keys to them so they could come in whenever they want and work on
them when the owners aren't around. )
I think current cell phones could be considered videophones - with the embedded digital cameras and screens it's possible to have a conversation with real-time (albeit with slow frame rates) images of one another.
That's not the reviewer's affiliate link? If not, I guess it's slashdot's? I can't imagine somebody putting together a review if there's not something in it for them (it's their book, their site, their affiliate link, etc.);).
- HOPEFULLY cheap high-speed bandwidth will finally be available. Ten years ago it sure seemed like it would have been a reality by now. Fiber, ethernet, or something everywhere. Can't believe POTS is still so prevalent and still maxed out at 56kps. DSL and cable are significant steps toward this goal - but still, more and cheaper!
- OLED displays that are like paper (thin and flexible) - fuel cell batteries that provide power for quite a bit longer - 64 bit computing (arriving now - wonder what the next step would be - 128 bit?) - Windows to require 30 terabytes of disk space
I hope somebody invents a better mouse (or whatever it might be called);).
I also wonder if we'll still be using hard disks ten years from now.
There's a good article at Wired about the current state of affairs in the battle against cancer.
The End of Cancer (As we Know it)
Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine.
Network software and service vendor Novell, meanwhile, upped the ante of its bet on Linux by announcing that it was porting its GroupWise groupware and collaboration software to the open-source OS.
Novell, which has been rushing to shift to Linux, announced Tuesday that its GroupWise collaboration platform will run entirely on Linux in the first half of 2004, when both client and server software is finalized. The Linux version of the GroupWise client is currently in beta, while the server software will enter beta in September.
GroupWise, which is part of Novell's Nterprise suite, does e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, document management, and workflow management. Currently it runs on Windows and Novell's own NetWare operating systems. The Linux edition will also integrate with Ximian's Evolution collaboration client, promised Novell. The Provo, Ut.-based Novell acquired Ximian earlier this week.
Novell's pitch is just the latest in a round of moves by companies to port their collaboration and workgroup software to Linux. Last week, IBM Lotus said that it would include Linux support in the next version of its Domino Server, which is scheduled to debut as part of Notes 6.5 this fall.
"Enterprises are looking at Linux and open standard platforms for their messaging and collaboration applications," said Maurene Caplan Grey, a research director at Gartner.
Novell also announced that it's added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 to its eDirectory directory service software.
eDirectory 8.7.1, which will be available August 8, will add support for these two Linux distributions to the already-available support for Windows, Solaris, NetWare, and AIX. Additional authentication features, including support for biometrics, smart cards, and tokens, will also be part of the upcoming edition. eDirectory will be priced at $2 per user, said Novell, with volume discounts available.
Also at LinuxWorld, reports surfaced that Novell was taking an even bigger step towards Linux by discontinuing development for its flagship NetWare network operating system.
That talk is all wrong, said Novell's president and CEO, Jack Messman on Wednesday.
"Novell is not dropping NetWare, we're adding Linux," said Messman.
Novell's shipping NetWare 6.5, the most recent version of its OS, next week, added Messman, and when it debuts NetWare 7.0 -- which is still in development -- the operating system will support both the NetWare and the Linux kernels.
"NetWare is not going away. Period," said Messman.
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By STEVE GIEGERICH, AP Education Writer
While tuition costs keep on rising, so do the salaries of college presidents.
A survey of college presidential salaries revealed Monday that the compensation packages given the leaders of four private universities in the 2002 fiscal year topped $800,000.
The Chronicle of Higher Education's annual salary report also said that the top officials at 12 public schools are scheduled to earn more than $500,000 in 2003-04.
With an annual package of salary and benefits totaling $891,400, Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., was the top earner among college presidents last year, the Chronicle said.
The Chronicle said that doesn't include Jackson's compensation for serving on eight corporate boards, which adds an additional $591,000 to her annual income.
Closely behind Jackson on the list of top earners among private school presidents were Gordon Gee, the president of Vanderbilt University in Nashville ($852,000), the University of Pennsylvania's Judith Rodin ($845,474) and Arnold Levine of Rockefeller University ($844,600), who has since resigned for health reasons.
The Chronicle said the $677,500 that will be paid in salary and benefits in 2003-04 to the University of Michigan's Mary Sue Coleman puts her atop the list of public institution leaders.
Coleman is followed on the public schools list by University of Delaware President David Roselle, who will earn $630,654 this academic year and Richard McCormick, who will receive $625,000 to head New Jersey's Rutgers University.
During the 2001-02 fiscal year, the Chronicle said, the chief executives of 27 private schools received compensation in excess of $500,000.
David Harpool, the president of Argosy University in Chicago, criticized college boards that approve exorbitant salaries for their presidents while saddling students with tuition increases topping 10 percent.
"We don't apply any common sense business principles to these decisions," said Harpool, the author of "Survivor College," a book that criticizes nonessential spending on college campuses.
The Chronicle compiles its data on the salaries paid the presidents of private institutions by reviewing nonprofit tax forms filed last year by each school. The current salaries of state college and university presidents are determined by reviewing both nonprofit tax forms and the public budgets filed by each institution.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/
I found www.maptech.com the other day. Looks pretty good, can be used as a web service too it appears.
Each elevator is designed with an aerodynamic body, pressurization and emergency braking systems, and the world's first triple-stage anti-overshooting system. The cost for each elevator is over $US 2 million.
Um, what is a "triple-stage anti-overshooting system"? To keep elevators from going past target floors?
Ithinkmyspacebarstoppedworking.
Or non-motorized hydrofoil (air) surfboards:
http://www.foils.org/sailbord.htm
http://www.hydrofoilsurfing.com/
Sorry, motorized has been done. Even has hydrofoils!
http://robijn.net/hydrofoil/
Then I'll direct you to a URL with my comments on this article.
This is funny, because I know somebody who's switching FROM Ford:
/ 2003-September/009561.html
Okay, now lets make Ford like Microsoft...
My Ford has an oil leak. Ford doesn't call to tell me to tell me there's a big problem with oil leaks and a fix is available, but I find out from a guy on the Internet that they will fix it for free. I get my car back home from the shop and the next day there's oil all over the floor. I call Ford and they tell me they'll fix it next week.
A month later a repair is available. On the way home from the shop I crash into a tree because the oil leak fix conflicted with the brake system. Ford says, yeah, that's been happening... there should be a fix for the fix next week. I spend more than the car is worth rebuilding it, (Ford said I should have test driven it before I drove it home.) but can't really drive it safely until the fixed fix is available. I get home from the shop without getting in an accident (after the fixed fix) and as I pull into my driveway my neighbor says, Hey bill, did you know you've got a pretty bad oil leak? Disgusted, I take my Ford to the dealer and want to buy another car, preferably non Ford. He informs me that all the dealers in the area carry only Fords. But, he says, the newest, fanciest, most expensive Ford has been completely redesigned and is guaranteed not to have oil leaks.
Without much choice, I tell the dealer I'll take the new Ford and would like to trade in my old Ford. He informs me the old one isn't worth anything, but for a few dollars off he can give me an upgrade. I just have to keep my old Ford at home and every time I want to start the engine of my new Ford, I have to put the key in the old one first. This works okay for awhile. (Although I have to have the new Ford rebuilt as well because I'm T-boned by a guy in an older Ford that just repaired his oil leak.) A little bit later I come out and my new Ford has an oil leak!
I call Ford and they tell me there will be a fix next week. The fix is available in a couple of months and I take it in for repair. Remembering my brake incident, I stomp on the brakes several times hard, check the lights, washers and air bag. It all works well. I try to drive home but can't get there because the interstate is blocked with leaky Fords that have been T-boned by leaky Fords with bad brakes. I try to pass the time by listening to the radio... but it doesn't work any more. Since I can't get home, I head back to the dealer to complain about the radio. They tell me they can get the radio working but the "work-around" will kill my rear defogger. If I wait another 6 months though, a new model is being released that won't have oil, brake or radio problems...
I get angry and drive out of town to a dealership I heard about that can supply me with a custom configured *NIX Automobile. The dealer is cool but the new *NIX is way harder to drive than the Ford. I like it though and decide to buy one. Unfortunately, there is some kind of law or agreement that says I have to pay for a Ford (even though I don't get it) as well a fee to have my new *NIX setup and delivered.
At this point I give up with the dealers, go buy the book "Rebuilding your Ford into a *NIX in 21 days", do so, and live happily ever after. ( Later, I have a good laugh when a Ford rep comes on TV and tells the world that the latest Ford fiasco could have been avoided if all owners would just give a spare set of house keys to them so they could come in whenever they want and work on them when the owners aren't around. )
http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure
Anybody wanna buy some beer bio-keyboards? I also have them available in coffee and cola models.
I think current cell phones could be considered videophones - with the embedded digital cameras and screens it's possible to have a conversation with real-time (albeit with slow frame rates) images of one another.
This:
;).
You can purchase Practical C++ Programming, Second Edition from bn.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.
That's not the reviewer's affiliate link? If not, I guess it's slashdot's? I can't imagine somebody putting together a review if there's not something in it for them (it's their book, their site, their affiliate link, etc.)
1. Write virulent Internet worm.
2. Write screen play based on worm.
3. Profit!
Anybody care to hazard a guess how much the reviewer makes from their affiliate links in these articles?
Must not be bad, since submitted reviews occur at a regular basis on slashdot.
Now all my DirectX 9 vaporware games will run even faster! (300 fps wasn't fast enough anyhow).
- HOPEFULLY cheap high-speed bandwidth will finally be available. Ten years ago it sure seemed like it would have been a reality by now. Fiber, ethernet, or something everywhere. Can't believe POTS is still so prevalent and still maxed out at 56kps. DSL and cable are significant steps toward this goal - but still, more and cheaper!
- See above, but available in wireless.
- OLED displays that are like paper (thin and flexible)
;).
- fuel cell batteries that provide power for quite a bit longer
- 64 bit computing (arriving now - wonder what the next step would be - 128 bit?)
- Windows to require 30 terabytes of disk space
I hope somebody invents a better mouse (or whatever it might be called)
I also wonder if we'll still be using hard disks ten years from now.
If you put an electric eel in it, will it also serve as a power supply? :P
There's a good article at Wired about the current state of affairs in the battle against cancer.
t ml?pg=2
The End of Cancer (As we Know it)
Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/cancer.h
They talk about micro-arrays, among other things.
So when will petroleum be able to be produced artificially? It's created by heat, pressure, and time as well.
Complete list of uses for this:
[end list]
stocks, bonds, futures, options, ...
Novell Denies It's Killing Off NetWare
Network software and service vendor Novell, meanwhile, upped the ante of its bet on Linux by announcing that it was porting its GroupWise groupware and collaboration software to the open-source OS.
Novell, which has been rushing to shift to Linux, announced Tuesday that its GroupWise collaboration platform will run entirely on Linux in the first half of 2004, when both client and server software is finalized. The Linux version of the GroupWise client is currently in beta, while the server software will enter beta in September.
GroupWise, which is part of Novell's Nterprise suite, does e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, document management, and workflow management. Currently it runs on Windows and Novell's own NetWare operating systems. The Linux edition will also integrate with Ximian's Evolution collaboration client, promised Novell. The Provo, Ut.-based Novell acquired Ximian earlier this week.
Novell's pitch is just the latest in a round of moves by companies to port their collaboration and workgroup software to Linux. Last week, IBM Lotus said that it would include Linux support in the next version of its Domino Server, which is scheduled to debut as part of Notes 6.5 this fall.
"Enterprises are looking at Linux and open standard platforms for their messaging and collaboration applications," said Maurene Caplan Grey, a research director at Gartner.
Novell also announced that it's added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 to its eDirectory directory service software.
eDirectory 8.7.1, which will be available August 8, will add support for these two Linux distributions to the already-available support for Windows, Solaris, NetWare, and AIX. Additional authentication features, including support for biometrics, smart cards, and tokens, will also be part of the upcoming edition. eDirectory will be priced at $2 per user, said Novell, with volume discounts available.
Also at LinuxWorld, reports surfaced that Novell was taking an even bigger step towards Linux by discontinuing development for its flagship NetWare network operating system.
That talk is all wrong, said Novell's president and CEO, Jack Messman on Wednesday.
"Novell is not dropping NetWare, we're adding Linux," said Messman.
Novell's shipping NetWare 6.5, the most recent version of its OS, next week, added Messman, and when it debuts NetWare 7.0 -- which is still in development -- the operating system will support both the NetWare and the Linux kernels.
"NetWare is not going away. Period," said Messman.
You don't think there's a killing to be made by trying to "collect" SCO licensing fees from Linux users? ;P
Artists such as Ludacris, Michael Jackson, NAS, Busta Rhymes, Keith Sweat and Musiq were very common throughout the subpoenas.
;P
Sounds to me like they're doing a Good Thing by cracking down on people who listen to that kind of music
Did you provide tech support for seti@home users? ;P