Returnees Living in Dormitories?

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Jenna Johnson, Colleges' newest dorm dwellers: professors. Washington Post,
Sept. 27, 2010.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/26/AR2010092603023.html
(Geroge Washington University "started placing faculty members in dorms
about 12 years ago")

My comment:
(a) Returnees from China, having earned PhD--and sometimes with postdoctoral
training--are unhappy that they have to start out as instructors as opposed
to assistant professors. More goring, they often have to settle in
dormitories. This report talks about a faculty member living in a student
dormitory.
(b) I once worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for seven months.
My boss, a professor, lived in a campus dormitory with his wife (they had a
seashore house at Rockport, a resort town 25 miles northeast of Boston).
See

Stephanie Keeler, Resident Experts; For more than 50 years, MIT housemasters
have been making students feel at home on campus. Technology Review,
September-October, 2010.
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26015/?a=f
("Faculty members have lived in student housing since 1933")
(c) Established in 1821, George Washinton University is private. George
Washington (1732-1799) had long argued for the creation of a university in
the District of Columbia. In his will, he bequeathed fifty shares of the
Potomac Company to support such an institution. Wikipedia.


----------------------------------Separately
Alex Frangos, An Overhead View of China’s PollutionSearch China Real Time
Report. China Real Time, Sept. 27, 2010.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/09/27/an-overhead-view-of-chinas-pollution/

My comment: I am glad Taiwan looks good in this atlas.


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