By THE INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES JUNE 8, 2014
The letter criticized specifically the detention, for creating a public disturbance, of people who took part in a discussion of the June 4 events at a private Beijing residence.
Signatories were mostly professors and researchers at European and North American institutions and some from Hong Kong. None were from mainland China. — CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE
First Professorship of Poetry at Yale Funded by Alumnus
Yale University has created its first professorship dedicated solely to the field of poetry. Established in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it is funded by Frederick J. Iseman, an alumnus of the university and the founder of CI Capital Partners, a private equity firm.
The chair will be held by a poet or scholar teaching poetry of any era in languages such as English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, ancient Greek or Latin.
Yale said it had long included poetry in its curriculum, but previously had no specific professorship. — ERIN MC AWEENY
Survey Shows Job Prospects for M.B.A. Students Improve
A recent survey of business school students nearing the end of master’s courses in business administration reported that employment prospects for M.B.A. students had recovered since the global financial crisis and that their salary expectations were rising.
The annual Global Management Education Graduate Survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council was released last week.
Based on a survey of 3,049 students graduating from institutions in 20 countries, it found that 57 percent of respondents had at least one job offer when questioned in February and March of this year.
During the same period in 2010, only 30 percent of those about to graduate reported having received job offers.
The median salary expectation of respondents was 80 percent higher than their predegree salaries, up from 73 percent last year. — CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE
