Strains of "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" rang out from the Cornell chimes. The provost introduced Feynman as an instructor and physicist par excellence, but also, of course, as an accomplished bongo drummer. Feynman strode onto the stage to the kind of applause reserved for performing artists, and opened his lecture with this observation-- "It's odd, but in the infrequent occasions
decisions when faced with options that aren't entirely right or wrong options. Do I have that right? Is that kind of what the book's about? president and the provost and they were of course upset because
But I would say in the last gallery of the exhibition, we have a case that has some 3D printed objects in it. I was the provost for the CUNY system for seven years before I took my job at the New York Historical Society.
They're an executive officer. They report directly to the provost . But do they have that same budget or similar budget than other units or similar access or similar support or people or reporting units?
And that, he thought, would help Stanford rise up in stature. When he took over as provost in the 50s, Stanford was considered this kind of middling school for kind of well-off people in Los Angeles, like a quote I saw.
OpenStudy is a very small group that started a couple years ago that is providing free student study groups online where students who maybe are using OpenCourseWare can ask The project is being led by our provost .
And she is today dean of the-- she is just stepping down as dean of the Ross School at the University of Michigan. And she's probably going to go on to be a provost or a university president, and if you talk to Alison, she will tell you-- she's still-- I don't think she did a personality transplant or something.
just a theorist she is a practitioner she teaches a course at Duke University called this is your brain on the internet and in 2003 when she was the vice Provost for interdisciplinary studies she led what she calls the iPod experiment crowdsourcing educational Innovation for the digital age she gave
So I compare first institutions that have adopted a strategic diversity plan. Then I wanted a CDO that was reporting to the president of provost , because at that time, people were trying to figure out what a CDO was. So there was different configurations.
in sort of the modern times. And he once had his boss, the Provost at Caltech, come to him, and was, like, look, I'm not entirely sure sort of how half-particles obey this form of Dirac statistics.
police can't be trusted and the Mexican army is outgunned by the drug cartels. That's really dangerous. And I'll tell you, in 1996, I went with the Stanford football team to the Sun Bowl in El Paso, I was provost , and we held the big banquet across the border in Juarez. I went to the Sun Bowl this past year with Stanford. Nobody went anywhere near Juarez and in that period of time, that border has become exceedingly dangerous. So we have some
They would call someone with authority and diversity a CDO. But technically, that person needed to report to the president or provost when we're talking about the role defined. And also, I wanted to find representation of models that actually represented the characteristics of each of the configurations.
And it seems to date back to about the late 1600s. There's a chap called Richard Allestree, who was the provost of Eton and was the king's chaplain or something. He had this amazing platform for trumpeting his views.
And he had this idea of, wait a minute. Actually, yesterday, I sat down with the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at Stanford.
I have the distinct privilege of welcoming my friend and former professor, Dr. Phil Kesten. Dr. Kesten is the Associate Professor of Physics and Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies at my alma mater, Santa Clara University. And I'm excited to welcome him now for the Physics of Star Trek.
So she's a fabulous public speaker. She's obviously been extremely successful, and she will be a provost or a university president of a major university. And if you had known her in 1986, if you there had been a list of 1,000 people who was going to be a dean or university president,
in earlier. Peter and I discussed this, but by this time Peter was provost at Yale, and he was a busy guy. So I published the personal intelligence paper, and I suggested that there were four areas that we use to reason about one another.
As I think about or give a brief definition to set our context, or just to set what a chief diversity officer is-- as you think about it in the context of academic institutions, a CDO would be a person or individual that reports to the president of the provost , has a direct line, and also is a person that is the highest diversity rank administrator at the institution.
I have mentored junior faculty that came into our program or department to be able to serve-- like, make sure they are successful when they move If I was a student, it's unlikely I even know the name of the president, the provost , or the faculty senate, or anyone that deals with administration
I'll start by introducing them, before we get into the really rich conversation. Immediately to my right, I have Dr. Rhonda Gonzalez, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora History and Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Director of Pivot for Academic Success at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
But at Sundance, I brought a book with me-- it was called "Terra" by Michael Novacek, the head provost American Museum of Natural History at 81st and Columbus.
My own editor had an idea-- my own editor, Colin Harrison actually, and my provost at Westmont College, had a title for a talk.