Schafer's salary

[French Rage]

Stanford in particular has been feeding on Cornell for over 130 years!

My ears are burning.  Do go on!

[Weder]

Maybe I'm just drawing a blank right now, but other than men's lacrosse which recent head coaches have used Cornell as a steppingstone? The only other one I can think of is Donohue, but he was never going to stick around for the long run. (And at this point he's not even that recent.)

[marty]

Maybe I'm just drawing a blank right now, but other than men's lacrosse which recent head coaches have used Cornell as a steppingstone? The only other one I can think of is Donohue, but he was never going to stick around for the long run. (And at this point he's not even that recent.)

Harkness

[Trotsky]

I'm sick and tired of Cornell being a stepping stone/feeder for other schools. Stanford in particular has been feeding on Cornell for over 130 years!

Stanford's old trick was to just hire away Harvard's faculty, Citizen Kane-style.





 In fact Stanford's decline in liberal arts is directly traceable to Harvard's decline.  They just weren't poaching interesting people anymore.

[upprdeck]

Cornell as whole across the campus has done a good job of bringing talented people in.. Then they have done a horrible job of retaining them in many key areas.

[osorojo]

I would be interested in a comparison between the number of college graduates on NHL rosters today versus that statistic in past decades, but I'm too lazy/ignorant to find that information.

[Trotsky]

I would be interested in a comparison between the number of college graduates on NHL rosters today versus that statistic in past decades, but I'm too lazy/ignorant to find that information.

It consistently climbed from the 70s through the 00s, I want to say from less than 5% to up around 35%.  I don't know about since.

Not grads, though.  Many/most screwed off early and didn't graduate.

[billhoward]

Cornell as whole across the campus has done a good job of bringing talented people in.. Then they have done a horrible job of retaining them in many key areas.

The world continues to become more urban. Only Dartmouth among the Ivies is more rural. Cornell has to find jobs for the trailing spouses. The opportunities for work fall off after Cornell, Ithaca College (big layoffs this year), Tompkins Financial, Cayuga Medical Center. There are startups but this is not quite Silicon Valley.

Some faculty will like the lifestyle or learn to like it. We're always going to lose some faculty to Harvard or Stanford.

[Weder]

Cornell as whole across the campus has done a good job of bringing talented people in.. Then they have done a horrible job of retaining them in many key areas.

The world continues to become more urban. Only Dartmouth among the Ivies is more rural. Cornell has to find jobs for the trailing spouses. The opportunities for work fall off after Cornell, Ithaca College (big layoffs this year), Tompkins Financial, Cayuga Medical Center. There are startups but this is not quite Silicon Valley.

Some faculty will like the lifestyle or learn to like it. We're always going to lose some faculty to Harvard or Stanford.

I was talking about this with friends when I was in Ithaca a few weeks ago -- the trailing spouse issue might become less of a factor with the shift to more remote work. One friend who is a Cornell employee (non-academic faculty) said he's already been told that his job is now 100% remote.

[Trotsky]

Remote work might also go a long way towards reversing urbanization.  Younger people will always be attracted to cities, but quality of life against population density is a normal distribution.

[billhoward]

Remote work might also go a long way towards reversing urbanization.  Younger people will always be attracted to cities, but quality of life against population density is a normal distribution.

The megacity (10M plus population) is the future of much of the world, especially Asia and parts of Africa. 55% of the world population is in cities (all sizes) today, 67% by 2050. By end of this decade, Delhi supplants Tokyo as world's biggest city and India becomes the most populous country despite being just one time zone. Americans may not notice the megacity trend because in the Western Hemisphere right now it's Sao Paulo, Mexico City, NYC-Newark, Rio de Janeiro, LA-Long Beach; rest of world has another 30.

Little bit of thread drift, here. Sorry, Coach.

[marty]

Remote work might also go a long way towards reversing urbanization.  Younger people will always be attracted to cities, but quality of life against population density is a normal distribution.

The megacity (10M plus population) is the future of much of the world, especially Asia and parts of Africa. 55% of the world population is in cities (all sizes) today, 67% by 2050. By end of this decade, Delhi supplants Tokyo as world's biggest city and India becomes the most populous country despite being just one time zone.

And by 2050 I'll surely get that 0% interest rate that my friends in Kolkata have promised me.

[osorojo]

Cities first formed to expedite communication and the distribution of information and goods. Technology has eroded the benefits of cities.

[Trotsky]

Remote work might also go a long way towards reversing urbanization.  Younger people will always be attracted to cities, but quality of life against population density is a normal distribution.

The megacity (10M plus population) is the future of much of the world

[billhoward]

Cities first formed to expedite communication and the distribution of information and goods. Technology has eroded the benefits of cities.

Single and 30? Try meeting somebody this weekend when you've taken your WFH life on the road to Malone, NY.