Universities today are increasingly competing for international students in response to trends in global student mobility, diminishing university funding and government-backed recruitment campaigns.
[A university spokesman] disputed the idea that a preppy, Harvard-branded clineing line would diminish the university's efforts to appeal to students of diverse backgrounds.
He disputed the idea that a preppy, Harvard-branded clineing line would diminish the university's efforts to appeal to students of diverse backgrounds.
As private funding displaces public funding and the diversity of people and ideas is diminished, the corporate university will become an institution that serves private interests over vital public goods.
Districts are no longer gerrymandered to the Protestants' advantage; discrimination in the workplace and the universities has diminished.
On Wednesday, Moody's explained the change by saying that even the best colleges and universities faced diminished prospects for revenue growth, given mounting public pressure to keep tuition down, a weak economy and the prospect that a penny-pinching Congress could cut financing for research grants and student aid.
"Economic conditions have shifted and the benefits of having a separate for-profit enterprise have diminished," Harvey J. Stedman, the university's provost, said in a statement released by the university.
Once you accept an offer, your ability to negotiate terms, and the department's ability to negotiate on your behalf with university administrators, is diminished.
In consequence, the motivation to identify with the university will be diminished, and the quality of research and teaching will probably decline.
The university's trustees voted in January to close the museum and sell its works, collectively estimated to be worth around $350 million, to help the university address a seriously diminished endowment resulting from the financial crisis.
