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<p>MMk, no point in arguing this one, that’s just a lack of intelligence there.</p>
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And, let me guess, BYU is #2 ? It’s a private Catholic school. As a Catholic, I’m thrilled for ND! But they should be that good, as they pour millions of dollars into that area, unlike non-religious schools (eg Michigan). </p>
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Yes. But you do realize that the VAST MAJORITY of top schools have Presidents/Chancellors who went to/taught at great schools, right? I mean, Harvard isn’t going to let someone who went to UTEP (no offense) suddenly become President.</p>
<p>Likewise, you’ll find this interesting:
Notably, given the long-standing rivalry between the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame, Coleman was invited to be the commencement speaker at the first separate commencement ceremony for the Notre Dame Graduate School on May 19, 2007, and received an honorary degree from Notre Dame.
[Mary</a> Sue Coleman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue_Coleman]Mary ”>Mary Sue Coleman - Wikipedia )</p>
<p>Notre Dame sure thinks highly of Michigan leaders, and vice versa. Hopefully you’ll share that respect after 4 years there as well.</p>
<p>As for the Berkeley leadership:
Before coming to Berkeley, Birgeneau served four years as president of the University of Toronto. He previously was dean of the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he spent 25 years on the faculty. He is a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences…March 18, 2006, Birgeneau received a special Founders Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. President John Hennessy of Stanford University, and filmmaker George Lucas also received the Founders award the same date…Birgeneau received his B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1963 and his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University in 1966. He served on the faculty of Yale for one year, spent one year at Oxford University, and was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories from 1968 to 1975. He joined the physics faculty at MIT in 1975 and was named chair of the physics department in 1988 and dean of science in 1991.
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Oxford, Yale, MIT, Toronto…pretty impressive, no?</p>
<p>UCLA:
A native New Yorker, Chancellor Block holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Stanford University and a master’s and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Oregon. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford, studying with Colin Pittendrigh, “the father of biological timing,” and Donald Kennedy, who later served as president of Stanford…The inventor of a number of devices, Chancellor Block holds a patent for a non-contact respiratory monitor for the prevention of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. He is an avid collector of vacuum-tube radios and has restored a number of high-performance cars…Previously, Dr. Block served as vice president and provost of the University of Virginia, where he held the Alumni Council Thomas Jefferson Professorship in Biology and directed the National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Center for Biological Timing…He served as the university’s vice provost for research from 1993 to 1998 and then as vice president for research and public service until his appointment as vice president and provost in 2001. In 1998, he received the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Outstanding Public Service Award for his work with Virginia’s business community.
[url=<a href=“http://www.chancellor.ucla.edu/biography.html]Biography ”>http://www.chancellor.ucla.edu/biography.html ]Biography</a> / UCLA Chancellor Gene Block](<a href=“http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/Birgeneau/biography/biography.htm]Biography[/url ”>http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/Birgeneau/biography/biography.htm )</p>
<p>ND isn’t the only school that expects excellence. The sooner you learn that, the better off you’ll be.</p>