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Harold T. Shapiro, a Canadian-born economist, began his term as Princeton's 18th president...
...Most Kurtzian Ending to a Media Story About How There's No Story Here (WP) "There's this wonderful incestuousness where the only story is the media being bored," says USA Today columnist Walter Shapiro. "It's just the most self-indulgent thing imaginable. We take these conventions so seriously, even when we're running around frantically in search of no story." Now that's a story...
...radical changes on campuses in the 1960s, most American colleges and universities have opened up their president and chancellor selection searches--which were previously limited to trustees and overseers--to formally include students, faculty and staff members. For example, the 1989 search for current Princeton University President Harold T. Shapiro involved one committee composed of trustees and another composed of students, faculty and staff. A similar system was used at Stanford, where one student sat on the search committee of 15 that recommended President John L. Hennessy last April. At both schools, administrators lauded the selection process and said...
...Hanne Shapiro, an IT learning expert at the Danish Institute of Technology, advocates a much closer partnership between schools and businesses to make sure that graduates emerge with skills employers need. But that alone is not enough, she adds. "You have to promote a lifelong willingness to keep learning. Unless you build that into the system, you're bound to never catch...
DIED. KARL SHAPIRO, 86, poet whose V-Letter and Other Poems, written while he was in New Guinea during World War II, won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize; in New York City. Shapiro's profile dimmed following his early success, but he remained an iconoclast, blasting T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound as detriments to poetry...