Quote: Hmm. Who might be next??Rather than who might be next... WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA?
A) No "Interlopers" -- must be a Stanford Alum or Faculty. Someone familiar with "Stanford Experience" we knew
-- Free exchange of ideas, plenty of active involvement with great peers, Spring rush in the sunshine. Mind-expanding thoughts.
1) Other notable presidents. Examples:
President at Duke: Dr. Vincent Price, MA 85 / PhD 87 from Stanford in Communications. Currently serving
President at Temple: Jason Wingard, BA '92, served as a WR on Walsh's '92 Team (Pac-10 champs). Anybody know him?
M.Ed from Harvard, PhD from Penn State in Ed-Culture & Society (what is that?). Could do TV/Media rights during first week.
Maybe John Bravman, President at Bucknell. A STEM Ed guy.
2) Noble Laureates? This guy: Carl Wieman in Physics and Education, now on faculty. Obama Science Advisor at White House.
https://physics.stanford.edu/people/carl-wieman
Wieman is my current favorite candidate because of devotion to STEM education, with the Nobel in pocket. On faculty now. [/quote]
It hurts a little that, though this thread has now gone to multiple pages, nobody has mentioned the hardworking president of Dickinson State University. After all, I am an alum.
Just kidding, of course. Mostly, anyway. The part that really hurts is that MY SON is a regular reader and occasional poster on this site, and even he has failed to nominate me. Sheesh!
Serving as president of a small state school is not an adequate background, to be sure. But you know I would not suffer from the "I am embarrassed that Stanford is good at sports" problem that has plagued (approximately) half of the Stanford Presidents.