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...The company said Lavine, a large donor to the Democratic party and the former chair of Columbia University’s board of trustees, “believes the time is right to take on a new role” and step back from day-to-day...
...at the University of Alabama....
...Other boards have faced similar dilemmas. More than a dozen trustees in total have told the Financial Times of their deep disquiet....
...The Aeolians is a large choir of undergraduates from Oakwood University in Alabama, winner of many international awards....
...She was “a very, very modest person who used her money for charitable causes”, says Herbert Winter, chairman of the museum’s board of trustees and involved with the institution since the 1980s....
...Senator Richard Shelby, a six-term Alabama Republican, “came out of the hearing undecided, and still has concerns”, according to a spokesperson....
...But if the veteran banker was guilty of over-optimism when predicting the fortunes of Barclays five years ago, he is striking a cautious note now. “I don’t think it’s a V-recovery,” he says....
...General Louis Wilson, commandant of the Marine Corps, Washington, DC, August 24 1976 Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Theresa Sackler, the widow of Mortimer Sackler, is on the V&A’s board of trustees until the end of the month....
...His suits became sharper — a new Louis Vuitton number was ordered for every motor show....
...Mr Knauss, who is chairman of the board of trustees at USD, says they made the gift contingent on it being used to construct a complex that will bear their name....
...He serves on the board of trustees at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is chairman of the Tate....
...But Mark DeMoss, a member of the university’s board of trustees and a former chief of staff for the elder Falwell, objected and resigned as a trustee....
...The university’s board of trustees pledged to take steps to expand Princeton’s commitment to diversity and inclusion and to be transparent “in recognising Wilson’s failings and shortcomings" as well as his...
...This year has seen the formation of the Future of Life Institute in the US (Musk is on the advisory board), while Cambridge university has created the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk....
...The court was considering Fisher v Texas, in which Abigail Fisher, who is white and was denied admission to the University of Texas in 2008, tried to overturn the college’s practice of taking race into consideration...
...He is wary of talking publicly about Facebook, since he still sits on its board....
...Yet visit any organisation and the chances are everyone from the doorman to the chairman of the board will have a good idea of who’s powerful and who’s not....
...Commissioned by the university’s board of trustees, the report revealed a string of failures by Mr Paterno and other high-ranking school officials in their handling of Sandusky going back more than a decade...
...The former dean of Oxford’s Saïd Business School suggests a switch to “trust firms” overseen by a board acting for all stakeholders....
...The University of Alabama found the drug had an impact on HBV, the Hepatitis B virus....
...The most extraordinary story I heard was from a woman in Tuscaloosa county, Alabama....
...He worked closely with Keele University and spent 25 years as chairman of trustees of the Wedgwood Museum. He is survived by his wife, Betty, and a son and daughter....
...the Brown vs Board of Education case on school segregation, decided in 1954....
...William Poole of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis thinks that this may be what investors who lose money on subprime mortgage-linked securities deserve for not looking at them closely enough....
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