Two U.S. senators introduce important higher ed bill that would expand study abroad opportunities
U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced a bill today that would greatly expand opportunities for American college students to study abroad. Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker, a cosponsor of the Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act of 2009 A day after Barack Obama warned that “our children will compete for jobs in a global economy that too many of our schools do not prepare them for,” the Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation... Read More
Wall Street Journal interview with Yale endowment guru
I was on the phone earlier this week with Sandy Robertson, a founding partner of the international private equity firm Francisco Partners and a member of the University of Michigan’s investment advisory committee, for a profile I’m currently reporting on U-M’s endowment investment guru, Erik Lundberg. (More on this later in the week.) Yale University investment guru David F. Swensen. Anyway, Mr. Robertson mentioned to me an interview in The Wall Street Journal with... Read More
