When influencing the allocation of federal dollars across the country, do presidents strictly pursue maximally efficient outcomes, or do they systematically target dollars to politically influential constituencies? In a county-level analysis of federal spending from 1984 to 2008, we find that presidents are not universalistic, but particularistic – that is they reliably direct dollars to specif...

Women are underrepresented in senior leadership positions across global higher education and there different reasons for this. This study examines barriers to women’s development Ethiopian education, with particular attention the role of national institutional policies practices. The used a phenomenological research design better understand from views experiences women leaders. Data were genera...

Thank you for publishing the article by Southgate and Pringle in the October issue (pages 854–855) on this important subject. As the person who has most recently held both these offices, I would like to describe two other roles of the President of the College which were not mentioned. First, the President traditionally visits most or all of the Faculties during the three-year term. This is a gr...

A citations analysis Purpose of this paper This paper addresses the question: should the world s top universities be led by top researchers, and are they? Design / methodology / approach The lifetime citations are counted by hand of the leaders of the world s top 100 universities identified in a global university ranking. These numbers are then normalised by adjusting for the different citation...

Towards a Smarter Web Wendy Hall, University of Southampton Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton, UK, and dean of the Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences. She was head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) from 2002 to 2007. She was elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in July 2008, a...

Hello and welcome to the first edition of the bimonthly STIMulus Newsletter. STIM (Students for Technology In Medicine) is a new student interest group dedicated to all things tech in medicine. One of our primary goals is to educate ourselves and our peers about all the latest and greatest happenings in the world of medical bio-tech, and come together to discuss the incredible advances that are...