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Vandy alumnus wins Nobel Peace Prize

A Vanderbilt University graduate and former MTSU professor won the Nobel Peace Price on Friday, recognized for his work on a bank that gives small loans to the poor.

Muhammad Yunus, who earned a Ph.D. in economics at Vanderbilt and is a former department chairman at Middle Tennessee State University, developed the concept of "microcredit" - small loans to poor villagers in Bangladesh to help them buy livestock or fund an enterprise. The program has grown from a $27 loan of his own money into the Grameen Bank, which has loaned more than $6.7 billion to more than 6.6 million borrowers. The Grameen Bank began in the village of Jobra in 1976, when Yunus gave $27 to 42 self-employed crafts workers.

Despite lack of collateral or signed loan documents, 99 percent of the loans have been repaid. The Grameen Bank provides services in more than 71,000 villages in Bangladesh through 2,226 branches.

"Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty," noted the Nobel committee. "Microcredit is one such means. Development from below also serves to advance democracy and human rights."

Yunus was named a Distinguished Alumnus by Vanderbilt in 1996. He was an assistant professor of economics at MTSU from 1969 to 1972 and was hired by Dr. Hans Mueller after he received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt in 1969.

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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drglance_3535_brief.php

Vanderbilt University

At a glance

Address

Nashville, TN 37240

Website

http://www.vanderbilt.edu

Admissions E-mail

admissions@vanderbilt.edu

General Information

Private institution

Year founded:

1873

Religious affiliation:

None

Academic calendar:

Semester

Undergraduate student body:

6,400

Setting:

Urban

Endowment:

$2,598,227,000

Fall 2007 Admissions

Application deadline:

January 3

Application fee:

$50

Selectivity:

Most selective

U.S. News Ranking

U.S. News ranking: National Universities, 18

Expenses

Tuition and fees:

$33,440

Room/board:

$10,890

onebraver

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2006/10/9/vanderbilt-jumps-to-no-53-in-the-times-of-london-rankings-university-improves-61-places-from-2005-ranking

Vanderbilt jumps to No. 53 in The Times of London rankings; University improves 61 places from 2005 ranking  

Vanderbilt University leaped 61 places in the most comprehensive and respected worldwide rankings of universities, moving to No. 53 on the 2006 World University Rankings by The Times of London.

The rankings were released by The Times of London on Oct. 6.  Vanderbilt, which was ranked No. 114 last year, was the sole university from Tennessee to make the list.

Vanderbilt’s improved ranking was buffeted by a strong score of 81 out of 100 for faculty/student ratio. The rankings also considered peer review scores, graduate recruiter reviews, citations of academic papers and percentage of international students and faculty.

“The Times represents perhaps the 'gold standard' of university rankings, so this kind of recognition is particularly valuable,” said Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee.  "Vanderbilt clearly stands side-by-side with the very best universities in the world, which is a tribute to the quality of our faculty and students.”

Vanderbilt was ranked the No. 26 university in North America, up from No. 53 last year; and the No. 9 university in the world for academic staff-to-student ratio. As of the fall 2005 semester, Vanderbilt had a 9-to-1 ratio of faculty to students.

Forty percent of the rankings were derived from peer reviews based on data from 3,703 academics around the world. The opinions of graduate recruiters counted for 10 percent. Forty percent of the rankings are the result of quantitative measures, of which the academic staff-to-student ratio and citations of academic papers each count for 20 percent. Ten percent of the grade depends on the extent that universities are global, based on percentages of overseas faculty and students.

snowheat

How is the job prospect after guaduation??

jpwy2004

对这个大学比较喜爱，我一个老师（兼职），现在是一家美国公司在中国的总经理，就是这个学校MBA毕业的，大概毕业将近10年了吧，全奖上的MBA，感觉人很NICE。

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Onebraver, cheers!

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While more and more companies come to the Owen school to hold on-campus info sessions, we have several other channels to meet recruiters. Here are some examples...

In this week, the Owen school sent most students who have a finance concentration to the Wall Street to meet the major investment banks. In the mean time, some of us came to Cincinnati to attend the National Society of Hispanic MBA Career Expo, the largest MBA job fair, to find a job.

In the middle of Nov., students with a marketing concentration will be sent to Atlanta for recruiting events arranged by the Owen school.

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-10-28 12:55:34编辑过]

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Today I read a blog of a Owen classmate, which is such a great stuff that I really want to share with you...to let you have some idea about the teamwork in Owen school.

 

 

Are you better than your team?

My friend is visiting business schools this fall and I am learning a lot about the other MBA programs out there... and the more I listen to what he has to say, the more I like it here.

His most recent visit was to a prestigious program in the northeast with fourteen redbrick buildings that make up the business school. If I had to summarize his experience in one polite word it would be "disappointed." What surprises me was that any of the top tier programs could actually disappoint someone... and if that really happens it tells me that there is a fundamental disconnect... and I know its not with my friend because he has a stellar academic and professional record as well as a very mature outlook on life.

He was particularly disappointed with two things... the very young students and the lack of teamwork in the program. He said that he saw students hunched over on their books in individual study tables around campus... He said that the silence was deafening. I will wait for another 2am post to discuss the age factor but I definitely want to start the discussion on the teamwork aspect. I am a better person today because of the teamwork here at Owen. We do everything in groups.... and that is the beauty of it all. What good is Sam's PhD, Doug's Brewery experience, Jose's Sports Team Management experience, or Justin's gray matter to the growth and development of the student community if they do all their studying and playing on their own?

During the first seven weeks I actually experienced synergy (where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts) I don't think I would have learned or contributed half as much if it wasn't for the group learning at Owen. I will leave you with two simple examples...Once our group was working on a statistics assignment and we were stuck. So I walked into the library and stopped at the first student that I saw (who was our grade) and said, "Man, do you have any idea how to do this ANOVA problem?" and he dropped what he was doing, walked into our study room and explained the entire problem. The other example happened this morning.... we have a marketing case analysis on Land Rover due and Ike and I decided to chat about it for a little bit. I read the case multiple times and had some idea of where I might go with my analysis but after talking to Ike I feel like a rockstar. Ike picked up things in the case that I never saw and more importantly he came up with some amazing new commercial ideas for Land Rover.... and when he started to share his ideas on how Land Rover can market there Range Rover differently, it immediately gave me a whole new perspective on the case. In fact, it is actually an individual assignment but our Marketing professor demanded that we discuss the case with our classmates over Pizza and Beer.

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Really love this guy (Sharran Srivatsaa)'s blog, so I just cannot resist the idea to post another one...

Present Value of MY Range Rover

Its past 4am and I guess now is as good a time as any to blog. Its been a few days since my last entry so let me get you up to speed...

We had our first marketing case analysis due this week and I feel like I know everything about Land Rover now. Its amazing what knowledge of a particular product or service can do... suddenly I start noticing all the Land Rovers on the road. There are a gazillion of them in the Green Hills area where I live... its kinda posh around here and I always noticed the Beamers and Mercks, but now I see that people actually buy the $80k Range Rovers. I think I want one. I gotta have some idea on how I am going to spend my signing bonus :-)

            

(snack break - leftover chinese food... yum!)

I am loving Finance. Somehow my brain works well with the "Time Value of Money" concept... for example, I can quickly calculate the present value of my Range Rover. Anyway, the key to finance is going to be to keep up with the reading and the everyday assigned (but not graded) homework. I think it is going to be extremely beneficial to be an overachiever and stay ahead of the class in Finance, that way if I wanted to watch Studio 60 on Mondays I could actually plop back on the couch that has never been used and turn on the TV that has never been turned on and watch the show, comfortably. I am probably better off watching the commercial-free recording online the very next day, but hey... it was a good idea. Sam just TiVo's the puppy.

I have had multiple requests to bring back the cartoons. It takes forever to draw with a mouse but I will be able to do more after Thanksgiving when I bring my Tablet PC back to Nashville. But stay tuned for some uncut videos.

Quote of the week: "If you don't have more than one spelling for multi-syllable words, you need to get more creative." -Prof. Steve Hoeffler

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