Are public universities losing ground?
Inside Higher Ed | March 14 New data from a company that ranks research universities primarily based on per-capita faculty productivity suggest that there are consistent and dramatic disparities in research output at public and private institutions. … “Before drawing firm conclusions, I would wait to see what the National Research Council’s rankings say,” said Peter Lee, vice provost for research at Carnegie Mellon University. (The private institution performed exceedingly well in the Academic Analytics 2005 rankings, landing in the No. 6 spot among large research universities.) “If they affirm this, I think that there would be an interesting discussion to have. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/14/analytics More Chinese graduates return home The New York Times | March 13 When Zhe Xu receives his M.B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley this spring, he will hop a plane back to his native China for a job in management consulting rather than seek employment
