Steinfeld, Lebow's successor and a reserved former physics professor, needed help running the rapidly growing organization.
It seems odd that a professor needs a computer to tell him that he has received 60 identical term papers in five semesters.
Hunched over his desk on a Wednesday in October, fresh off a lecture that morning, the Princeton University history professor needs to prep for a dissertation defense.
So it's not the case that every professor needs to go buy his or her own supercomputer.
In this patriarchal environment, a female professor needs to lift herself up from sub-zero to zero level.
Obama's Democrats control 55 of the Senate's 100 seats, which means the 67-year-old former economics professor needs to only win backing from five Republicans to reach the 60-vote threshold necessary to overcome any procedural hurdles.
It is like those eighty-step equations which math professors need three blackboards to write out.
He thinks professors need to get over their fear of corporate partnerships and embrace efficiency-enhancing technologies.
Economists need to reach out from their specialised silos: macroeconomists must understand finance, and finance professors need to think harder about the context within which markets work.
Professors need not be distant figures whose only job is to give lectures in large auditoriums and spend the rest of their time doing research.
