For the last three years, Fairfield has had an exchange program that sent professors to Herzen University in St . Petersburgfor two weeks.
Governments nominate the judges, and some have sent professors or former diplomats who have never sat on a bench.
Both the UC and Cal State are planning to send professors and staff on leave, cram more students into classrooms and offer fewer courses.
Mr. Lange built a system, rolled out in 2009, that sent professors frequently updated alerts about how well each student was predicted to do, based on their course performance and online behavior.
Starting in January, for example, Paine Webber will pay for N.Y.U. to send professors to the company's office in Weehawken, N.J., and teach night classes to about 20 of its most promising young employees.
"It's one thing for universities here to send professors overseas and do exchange programs, which do make sense, but it's another thing to have us running educational programs overseas".
LAST fall, convinced that it could attract more students if it could just show them what happens in the classroom, Mount Holyoke College tried out a new marketing strategy: it sent professors to three cities to teach hourlong lectures, much like those they would teach back on campus, to prospective applicants.
Faculty departments that send professors to teach in Abu Dhabi can reap significant financial rewards for doing so, while departments that refuse to send faculty there stand to lose out.
After I sent Professor Cutler a draft of this post, he responded: "When I was giving my testimony, I was excluding the vast bulk of policies that will affect part-time work, job choice, etc., because I wanted to focus on the overall cost issue.
After Mr. Lay's wife, Linda, said on television that the couple had "lost everything," a friend, as a joke, sent Professor Poole an e-mail message asking, "Has Ken asked for his money back?" Mr. Lay's donations went elsewhere.
