Columbia has been one of the most aggressive universities in mining the commercial potential of its intellectual property through patents and royalties, which bring it more than $100 million a year.
Sir Anthony Seldon, the departing headteacher of Wellington College, has criticised his colleagues, saying that private schools are flinching in the face of government, aggressive parents and universities.
By dealing with the situation in this quiet and civil way, Spence was removing the need for Beijing to launch an aggressive attack on the university, and ensuring that the university's attempt to muzzle the Dalai Lama was kept out of the public eye.
Yale's administrators, professors and union officials offer various reasons for the eight strikes since 1968, including bitter town-gown relations, aggressive union leaders, and university administrators who are seen as uncomfortable with workers and antagonistic toward unions.
Even with more aggressive oversight, however, few university officials think they can eliminate the risk that recruits may get drunk at parties and that women may be used as enticements.
Meanwhile Oxford University is poised to take an unprecedented vote of no confidence in the higher education minister, David Willetts, on Tuesday in the most aggressive act of the university against a government since its dons vetoed an honorary degree for Margaret Thatcher.
Since then, it's proven a diverse and robust project — though, even with the university's aggressive approach to spinning off startups, it hasn't been easy to monetize.
Indeed, the higher fees each student would pay could make British universities more aggressive in recruiting students from EU countries.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has embarked on an aggressive effort to recruit universities for what he envisions as one of the largest development projects in the city's history.
In the wake of the licence revocation, rival London-based universities led aggressive marketing campaigns in an attempt to snap up former London Met students.
