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[QUOTE="JustSayin, post: 4197054, member: 8150"]
I listened to the podcast this morning. It was classic John Desko, so humble,  unassuming and soft spoken. There was a great deal of history about how the Gaits found their way to SU and how John Grant got away. It reminded me of his calls to me to meet with the parents and the new recruits to showcase the majors in our school (Information School.)

While I realize the Ivies and a few other schools have better academic reputations, I've always taken exception to all the hyperbole. I agree, parents do love it, though. I work on research projects with faculty from these schools. Are they pretty good? Sure. But don't sell SU short on academics. We have the top rated (consistently in top 5) Information school (School of Information Studies), Public Policy school (Maxwell) and Communications school (Newhouse.) And our Physics department in Arts and Sciences is world class. When I take students to CERN, I always get plenty of accolades from the CERN scientists about our Physics profs. I've always felt we don't have the marketing engine and alumni working at full throttle to break though the elite academic ceiling but, we actually have a great deal of academic success to brag about.
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