Fouad Saleet, associate director of Coed, Fraternity and Sorority system, told The Dartmouth he will be leaving this term to fill a position at Colgate University. Saleet said his departure was not due to any dissatisfaction with Dartmouth; rather, he chose to accept a new opportunity, he said. In his new position, which is similar to that of a class dean, Saleet will oversee Colgate's Center for Leadership and Student involvement, as well as the University's Greek system. Saleet said he suspected his position at Dartmouth would not be re-assigned because of budgetary concerns. Saleet's supervisor, Assistant Dean of Residential Life Deb Carney, told The Dartmouth that the College "is in the middle of a transition" and has not made a decision regarding Saleet's potential replacement. Carney said she and her department would miss Saleet, but that they were excited about his new job at Colgate.
Cornell University has announced that its financial aid policy will no longer provide what critics argued were effectively athletic scholarships, Inside Higher Ed reported Tuesday. Cornell's policy, which the University introduced in November of 2008, reduced parental contributions for students who were considered particularly valuable to the University, including some athletes. The policy drew criticism from officials within the Ivy League, which maintains a policy against athletic and merit-based scholarships. MetaEzra.com, a Cornell-focused blog, reported last week that the Ivy League had begun investigating the policy for violations. Simeon Moss, a Cornell spokesman, denied the investigation was occurring, since the University had already changed its policy, but told Inside Higher Ed that Cornell did not believe its financial aid practices contradicted Ivy League policy.
According to a recent working paper, American colleges are only somewhat responsive to changes in the market's employment demands, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Monday. The paper, written by economists Ashok Bardhan, Dwight Jaffee and Daniel Hicks, concluded that as opportunities, wages and demand increase for occupations in a certain field, more people complete degrees in that field. However, the increases generally do not occur until four to seven years after market conditions change. The study also found variations in the rate of change for different occupations, according to the Chronicle. Degree programs for physicians' assistants, insurance adjusters and computer scientists all increased much more rapidly than medical degrees, for example. The findings show that American business may need more incentives to promote slower-growing degree programs to avoid relying on foreign workers, the paper argued.
